Upper ID: A banner flyer. A gradient pattern of triangles mosaic starts on the left side and fades out towards the middle, starting with yellows and reds on the left side, transitioning to pinks and blues in the center. A title sharing the same color spectrum as the triangles fill the bottom half of the right side, text: “Art Summit”. Smaller text in. white above it, "Deaf Spotlight". Similar text below the title, “June 3-5, 2022” with the 2022 bolded.
Art Summit 2022
Deaf Spotlight hosted its first Art Summit, a virtual Professional Development space where Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled and Hard of Hearing artists can network and learn more about the business side to become successful and practicing creatives. This was a great opportunity for artists to build skills and to be confident in running their businesses and projects.
Workshop Presenters
Brittany Castle | Creativity and Connection: Using your artistic talent to find your audience.
Monique Holt | How to Continue Managing Your Business
Melody Stein | Entrepreneurship: Moving from Idea to Action
Matt Daigle | Authenticity vs. Poetic License: Accountability when Representing ASL in Art
Tiffany Saccente | Finding Your Focus
Jennifer Tandoc | Timeless Black Flame: How to Grow Your Business
Art Summit 2022 Committee
Kellie Martin, Event Director
Brittany Castle, Tech Support
Monique Holt, Networking Coordinator
Anna Mansell Karagiannis, Access Support
Patty Liang, Development
Miki Smith, Networking Support
Fei Xia, Graphic Design Contractor
Steven Carranco, Tech Support
Buddy Elledge, Creative Director
Gabby Hopkinson, Access Support
Kaitlyn Mielke, Workshop Coordinator
Kate Strack, Registration
Justin Perez, Tech Support
Our Partners
4Culture Logo ID: a white background with a green logo with a shadow: "4" and CULTURE without shadow.
ArtsWA Logo ID: a Washington shaped icon with geometric triangles in different colors: teal, orange, red, yellow and dark green with white capitalized text: ARTS (BOLD) and WA (thin) inside the state. Teal capitalized text: Washington State Arts Commission.
BLICK Art Materials logo ID: a white background with black text in two rows: “BLACK” and “art materials.”
City of Seattle Office of Arts and Culture Logo ID: a white background with blue logo "C" over "A&" and text: Office of Arts & Culture with a line over SEATTLE.
NEA Logo ID: black capitalized text: National Endowment for the arts with two lines and arts.gov)
Art Summit: Day Three
Day 3 Agenda: THREE MORE WORKSHOPS COMING YOUR WAY!
Melody Stein | Entrepreneurship: Moving from Idea to Action
Brittany Castle | Creativity and Connection: Using your artistic talent to find your audience
MoMo Holt | How to Continue Managing Your Business
[ID: A square post for the Art Summit Schedule with dark background and a photo of Melody Stein on the lower right corner, overlaid on a large teal triangle with her name in white font alongside the side. A pattern of teal triangles starts on bottom left corner and continues to top right corner. Text on top left: “Day Three” in teal, and below, in white, “June 5, 2022. 12pm EST/9am PST”. Text on bottom right corner in white, “Entrepreneurship: Moving from Idea to Action.”]
[ID: A square post for the Art Summit Schedule with dark background and a photo of Brittany Castle on the lower right corner, overlaid on a large teal triangle with her name in white font alongside the side. A pattern of teal triangles starts on bottom left corner and continues to top right corner. Text on top left: “Day Three” in teal, and below, in white, “June 5, 2022. 2pm EST/11am PST”. Text on bottom right corner in white, “Creativity and Connection: Using your artistic talent to find your audience.”]
[ID: A square post for the Art Summit Schedule with dark background and a photo of Brittany Castle on the lower right corner, overlaid on a large teal triangle with her name in white font alongside the side. A pattern of teal triangles starts on bottom left corner and continues to top right corner. Text on top left: “Day Three” in teal, and below, in white, “June 5, 2022. 2pm EST/11am PST”. Text on bottom right corner in white, “Creativity and Connection: Using your artistic talent to find your audience.”]
Art Summit: Day Two
Agenda for Day 2: THREE workshops coming to you!
Matt Daigle | Authenticity vs. Poetic License: Accountability when Representing ASL in Art
Tiffany Saccente | Finding Your Focus
Jennifer Tandoc | Black Timeless Flame
[ID: A square post for the Art Summit Schedule with dark background and a photo of Matt Daigle on the lower right corner, overlaid on a large red triangle with his name in white font alongside the side. A pattern of red triangles starts on bottom left corner and continues to top right corner. Text on top left: “Day Two” in red, and below, in white, “June 4, 2022. 2pm EST/11am PST”. Text on bottom right corner in white, “Authenticity vs. Poetic License: Accountability when Representing ASL in Art.”]
[ID: A square post for the Art Summit Schedule with dark background and a photo of Tiffany Saccente on the lower right corner, overlaid on a large red triangle with her name in white font alongside the side. A pattern of red triangles starts on bottom left corner and continues to top right corner. Text on top left: “Day Two” in red, and below, in white, “June 4, 2022. 12pm EST/9am PST”. Text on bottom right corner in white, “Finding Your Focus.”]
[ID: A square post for the Art Summit Schedule with dark background and a photo of Jennifer Tandoc on the lower right corner, overlaid on a large red triangle with her name in white font alongside the side. A pattern of red triangles starts on bottom left corner and continues to top right corner. Text on top left: “Day Two” in red, and below, in white, “June 4, 2022. 4pm EST/1pm PST”. Text on bottom right corner in white, “Black Timeless Frame.”]
Art Summit: Day One
Agenda for Day One: Arlene Ngalle-Paryani, our Emcee, will kick off the Art Summit!
Arlene Ngalle-Paryani was born and grew up in Washington, DC with a passion for theater art. She started the social media platform as a Content Creator with the intention of giving back to the Deaf community by sharing the inspiration with hope and joy.
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