OAaSIS International Foundation (Jamaica)

Now visitors to the OAaSIS International Foundation website can have a quick glance at the latest happenings of the organisation through special promotion areas on the front page.
As of today, Sunday, February 28, there are three promotion boxes giving a quick summary of the latest and ongoing features of the OAaSIS International Foundation. These exist to compliment the existing list of latest articles, and categories already on the site. These are located in the column at right, and under the advertising slots.
They are as follows:
1. Ongoing project with links
2. Ongoing fundraiser with links
3. Feature of the week (This area will either feature an article on a skilled person, who is either featured here on this site or on any other media house website including that of founder Anthea McGibbon)
3. Feature jots (which will promote articles from the

Two more photographers have come aboard to provide information for the OAaSIS online art careers library.
Audrey Headley less known than expert photographer Brian Rosen, known for mostly his efforts in the fashion and advertising industry are now onboard to ensure the library happens in a snap.
They join the list which includes:
Master photographer Howard Moo Young
Videographer Robin Chin

Founder of OAaSIS, Anthea McGibbon, is herself a trained and expert photographer and is a member of the Professional Photographers of America for the past 15 years. She therefore is skilled in ensuring all articles create the right frame for those who read.
Aside from that she has over 10 years in photojournalism, journalism and is arts and communications consultant.

So far, the appeal for sponsorship of this project has been soft.

The Art careers library is being built to

MORE AT:
OAaSIS Project 2: Art Careers Library

Here are a few careers from the list of visual art careers.

3-D Renderer – Designer
Advertising Account Executive
Advertising Careers
Animator
Apparel Design Major
Architects
Art Advocate
Art and Design Workers
Art Careers
Art Consultant
Art Critic
Art Directors
Art Historians
Art History
Art History Careers
Art Librarian
Arts Managers
Art Teachers
Art Therapist
Artisans and Craftspeople
Artist Career Profiler
Artist-Scientest Portrait
Artists and Related Workers
Arts Administrator
Arts and Communications Careers
Arts and Humanities Careers
Arts Career Cluster
Arts and Entertainment Careers
Arts, Design and Crafts
Art Restorer
Broadcast Media Careers
Cake Decorators
Careers in Arts for People with Disabilities
Careers in the Arts
Cartoonist
Comic Book Artist
Commercial and Industrial Designers
Commercial Artists – PDF
Commercial Artist
Computer and ICT Careers
Costume Designer
Craft Artist
Craftpersons
Creative Designer Arts
Design Careers
Faux Finish
Graphic Designers
Drafters
Drafting Technicians
Entrepreneur – Start Your Own Business
Exhibit Designers – ONET
Exhibition Designer
Fashion and Textile Design
Fashion Designer
Fashion Merchandising
Faux Finish
Fine Artists
Floral Designer
Footwear Designer
Framer
Gallery curator
Glass Blowers
Graphic Design Careers
Graphic Designers and Illustrators
Illustrator
Illustrator’s Career Guidance
Industrial Design Careers
Industrial Designer
Interactive Media Careers
Interior Design Career
Interior Designers
Jeweler
Jewelry Crafter
Landscaping Careers
Legal Representation
Makeup Artist
Medical Illustrator
My Heroes – Artists
Multimedia Artists
Museum Curator
Museum Officer
Museum Technicians
Online Gallery
Ornamental Blacksmith
Paginator
Painters and Illustrators
Painter and Sculptor
Painters and Illustrators – ONET
Painting Related Careers
Patternmakers
Performing Arts Careers
Photographic Retouchers
Photography and Film Careers
Picture Framer
Potter
Potter Ceramist
Print Finishing Artist
Printing Careers
Public Relations Specialist
Screen Printer
Sculptors
Set and Exhibit Designers
Set Designers – ONET
Signmaker
Sketch Artist – Court
Sketch Artist – ONET
Stone Cutters and Carvers
Storyboard Artist
Studio Art Careers
SubEditor
Subcontractor (Website designer)
Tattoo Designer
Theater Exhibit Designers
Toy Designer
Visual Artists
Web Designers and New Media

Over 200 parents around Jamaica were asked if they would support their children seeking a career in visual art, and needless to say less than a handful were clueless of the field beyond applying paint to canvas to capture a Jamaican scene, and then struggling for months along the sidewalks to sell it.
On the other hand, some parents question the outcome of their child’s dream to move past waiting outside a studio to ‘burst’ or even that the potential actor would even get a role worth even slightest mention. Will the diary of thoughts become a best seller or a regrettable waste of time?
This is unfortunate, especially when so many tools are available to teach and research on just about anything.
Additionally, a priority for parents, suffice to say, should be showing at least some interest in what amuses or captures the attention of your child, research it thus qualifiying his/herself to be better able to comment and make sound judgement.
Approximately 75 per cent of artists in Jamaica are self-employed, and with proper systems in place can make a decent living. Contributing better to society, artists who are successful can assist in advancing the country better, easing much strain off the government. This is no invitation for the government to implement systems to further disadvantage the artists amongst us, especially the struggling ones, and those living and/or earning far below their potential, especially in comparison to other countries.

Research, just might surprise parents.
On the other hand, the common assault of Jamaicans, especially those seeking to employ the services of or purchase products by artists usually want to do so to the disadvantage of the artist.
Quite frankly, this is another valid reason some parents prevent their children from pursuing a career in art, especially if they are to remain in Jamaica.
While some potential employers strive to undercut the artist, underpaying them, some artists are clueless and about the value of their work. This, however, is not to excuse the artist who often overprice their work especially in the quest for a fast buck.
Their ought to be guidelines, and recorded rules. There ought to be at the very least an identifying of possible careers, and quite frankly lines drawn on what should be free, especially when it comes to creative thought, human efforts. Art is found in every aspect of life, and strata of society.
It’s full time we as Jamaicans reacquaint ourselves or become even slightly familiar with the elements and mechanisms of art as an exciting career. After all, there is art when you choose the clothes you wear, designed by someone; there is art in motion in areas such as architecture. Even nature by its order and colour schemes bear the greatest aspects of art.

Here are a few career paths for the upcoming artist:

Visual Art Careers or click any from the list on the founder, Anthea McGibbon’s site by clicking here
See more detail, or here at What to do with your art training
Performing Art Careers
Literary Art Careers

Plain Rotation Gallery of Anthea McGibbon’s “Orchidaroma” painting series, in Cincopa Plain Rotation thumbs style. Order orchid paintings here.

So you’ve created a website and needless to say, you want to jazz it up, making it so attractive to keep your readers addicted. You don’t want a totally animated site, which can burst your budget, and, on the other hand take too long to upload anyway. You just want to keep things simple, by adding a unique gallery.

Tangled in the world wide web are so many ways to show your photos, especially with popular sites such as YouTube.com and Photobucket, and even Kodak. But, you want more than just a slide show or a photo album or plain video even, and with far more creativity.

Then you’ve got all this code, text, text and more text. You want to display lots, maybe thousands of photographs in the flashiest,  neatest possible way. Free from too much html code, free from passwords, and other elements that can be ooooh so tedious, they get annoying – BUT you’ve got major problems.

One main challenge you share with other website users, is that your host has limited you to just enough space to let people know you are online. It’s certainly no time to panic especially if you are a visual person. You understand the dynamics that most people around the word understand better through images, and so does developers like Cincopa.

Of the several ways you can find to upload your albums, or videos, Cincopa is among, if not the coolest! Especially if you are a photographer, or an artist. Or, maybe, you’re in the process of improving an online presentation with an animated or FLASHy gallery or album.

Once you can edit your html, Cincopa offers the opportunity to create the most attractive videos, albums, add music and more, especially to Wordpress users. Cincopa further reduces the need for impossible codes just to link a photograph.

At this Cincopa address  you can access a free account, and albums FLASHy enough to expose your skills, or memorable snapshots. After that you can upgrade to achieve more manipulation, features, and storage space.

Here are SAMPLES of what your albums can look alike, as a basic member.  Most photographs are by Anthea McGibbon.

Cover Rotation (where photos slide across and interchange with each other on first click)

Another great product from Cincopa Send Files. Also read about Cincopa best wordpress plugins for your website.

Shuffle Rotation (where photos are lifted and placed behind each other continously at first click)

Another great product from Cincopa Send Files. Also read about Cincopa best wordpress plugins for your website.

Video player 4:3 with menu See sample at Anthea McGibbon home page   Tilt View (where all photos float around in a particular order, but anyone you click on gets bigger, and if you click again, it spins around to reveal credit details you entered). See sample at Shaggy and friends delight youth

Smooth Gallery See sample at Unifying Gala for Jamaica’s 47th Independence Anniversary

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