April 2018 – Trampoline

Supporting Local: Who Do You Help When You Support Local Events

By TrampolineApril 29, 2018Events, Support

One of the things that you can count upon is that there is always a local event that is being planned and is asking for people to support it. Today, we wanted to explore the idea of who gains when you support local events.

A majority of local towns and communities often try to foster camaraderie by hosting a number of events. These events usually come in different themes and depending on their success, they can be turn into completely annual events. A majority of local festivals are events which were highly supported by locals and visitors. So here’s a small list which showcase just who you help when you choose to support local events:

Local Economy

Profit and revenue are very important to smaller communities. A majority of the public market tend to support larger conglomerates and corporations because they’ve highly visible. This is not anything that they obtain through sheer luck. Larger corporations tend to corner the market and make sure that only their ads get screen time.

Well, that’s how things used to be, at least. In today’s market, it is a lot easier for smaller businesses—the mom and pop ones—to really get the word out about them. If you support local events which showcase the goods of local businesses, you greatly help out their local economy.

Local Artists

A lot of local events are used to propel or boost local artists into a good visible platform. There have been countless of artists who were able to gain a foothold into the field of arts and performance because of a local event that they were part of.

When you support local events where they showcase homegrown artists, you help them establish themselves as legitimate artists. Every single purchase, no matter how small is one more step toward fulfilling their goal of being full-fledge artists.

Yourself

What a lot of people do not realize is that they do not just enrich the lives of others by visiting and taking part of locally hosted events. What they also end up supporting would be their own selves.

There are a lot of new sights and sounds that can be discovered especially those that have artistic ties. You help to support yourself as well as you engage and support artists and local events.

To Wrap Things Up

Everyone benefits when local events are supported. When people are able to provide their support for local businesses, brands, and local artists, the local community is able to flourish well. Artists generally fare better when the local community is more supportive.

Do you take part of local events? Who do you think gains the most when you support local events?

Struggling Artist? Take These Pieces of Advice with You

By TrampolineApril 15, 2018Arts, Tips

The concept of the struggling artist has always been one that has been romanticized for generations. Today, we wanted to give some useful—and practical—pieces of advice for any struggling artist.

Take That Odd Job

A common thing that a majority of newbie artists complain about would be the odd job offers that they get. After paying a significant amount of money on classes and even art courses, it can understandably be frustrating to be offered lower paying jobs.

The thing is no one knows what you are capable of yet. So taking that odd job increases your portfolio and gives your audiences a chance to better understand your style.

Embrace Technology

In certain cases, a lot of artists decline to share their work online due to copyright issues. This, however, ensures that they also miss out on massive exposure from people who would rightfully and legally support your craft.

Just learn what the acceptable forms of copyright are like putting watermarks on everything—and other forms of protection for your art.

Don’t Stop Learning

The advent of the internet has made it rather easy for networks to find each other and share knowledge about their particular crafts. If you are an artist, you must always try to enrich yourself through further study.

Learn more about the different movements out there. See if there is a particular market which aligns itself with your niche.

To Wrap Things Up

The idea of a struggling artist is one which shall continue for years to come. Every artist has their own interpretation of how they are ‘struggling’ and how they can get out of it. The world does need artists and there has been an increased clamor in supporting them. What we hope that these few pieces of advice will help any struggling artist with their cause.

What sort of advice would you offer another struggling artist?

What Is Art: Our Personal Responses in a Nutshell

By TrampolineApril 1, 2018Arts, Discussions

When it comes to the topic of art, people are usually at odds regarding what it is or what is even considered to be acceptable forms of art. Before we get started, we’re truly happy that you’ve chosen to join us as we go on an exploratory journey regarding both arts and events. For today’s discussion, we wanted to explore one of the more common questions that is aimed toward art lovers.

This question being: what is art?

While seemingly a simple question, many of us start to truly look outward and inward to try to answer this. Here are some of the more cohesive responses that our writing team has managed to convey:

“Art is beauty and ugliness. It is both together and apart. Art is cannot be one without the other. The best pieces of art highlight the polar opposites.”

“Art is one of the driving mechanisms behind great upheavals. A majority of the greatest movements was, at the core, an intrinsic belief that certain people were indulging on the beauty of the world while they had to do without.”

“Art is a pursuit. Whether that pursuit is successful or not, it is up to the eyes of others to determine. After all, the greatest artists of our time didn’t even know the worth of their own work. Art is frustratingly reliant on the input of others in order to be legitimized.”

To Wrap Things Up

Art is a fully human concept that continues to affect and elevate lives regardless if they actively seek it or not. One of the best things about art is that it can be pretty much everywhere and at any given time. So even if you aren’t all that interested in it or aware of its existence, it is constantly around you with the colors, hues, tunes, and sights that can just as easily be overlooked.

What’s your take on art? What do you think art is?