July 2006 Page 15

> PRATT INSTITUTE SUGGESTS VISUAL ART ACCESS GUIDELINES FOR ARTISTS
It was brought to my attention that the illustrious Pratt Institute career center has taken the unusual step of adopting (by condensing and summarizing) several of the original 1987-1995 Visual Art Access guidelines for artist self-management. We are quite honored by their apparent high regard for the research.

Many do not realize that all those guidelines were the result of enormous input from artists themselves; gathered, sorted, interpreted, created and published by VAA... but moreover, the collective product of literally hundreds of people. For that reason, when not sold for money, the guidelines have been handled as coming under the Fair Use doctrine of copyright law.

See their version of our research at:
http://www.pratt.edu/career/booklets/Marketing%20Yourself%20As%20An%20Artist.PDF

> ART and BARNEY
By some miracle of timing, I managed to escape ever having to be forced to watch the "Barney & Friends" TV show with children, mine or anyone else's. Yesterday I found redemption, at a birthday party for a two-year old.

In 1999 Scholastic Books, Inc. published a very good thing titled BARNEY'S BOOK OF COLORS, by: Mark Bernthal, illustrated by Darren McKee. What caught my eye was that the book discusses color from the standpoint of artist paintbrushes come-to-life as colorful storybook people interacting with that fat purple dinosaur, in a sense... red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, pink, brown, white, and black ones; doing all kinds of things such as driving a fire truck and walking together on garden paths etcetera.

Nice book... good for conditioning kids about art tools and color.