Transcript The Wordsmith Collection

The Wordsmith
Collection
Presented by
Rosanne Canright & Elizabeth Kolsrud
Section # 20079
Presentation Outline
Where it all began
Original staff
Portland beginnings
Staff and volunteers
Database collection
Designing flyer
Creating Web site
Humble beginnings…
The Wordsmith Collection began in Missoula, Montana in
1996 by a team of grass root artisans and writers who saw a
need to present the works of creative people to the public in
an attractive and inexpensive format.The first publication
was offered quarterly with a circulation of 300.
Original Staff in Montana
The Wordsmith Collection
Tim Flanagan
Editor & Publisher
Ben Green
Associate Editor & Art Director
Prudence Hawthorne
Contributing Editor
Dave LaSalle
Assistant Editor
Proofreader
Marika Gieson
Wordsmith comes to Portland
• The Wordsmith Collection
hopes to go to press, as well as
on-line, by the fall of 2002.
• It will be published bi-annually.
• The first edition for Portland
will contain 64 pages.
• The Wordsmith Collection will
also be offered for the first time
on-line and will include music,
animation, 3-D art, and film.
• A special feature of the web site
will be a virtual Gallery.
From cocoon to butterfly…
the metamorphosis begins
• New staff
• Volunteers
• Building a
database
• Designing a flyer
• Setting deadlines
• Going on-line
• Designing web
site
• Gathering items
for first issue
• Establishing a mailing
list/contact list
• Contact area art associations to
include event information in
Calendar
• Contact art associations to
solicit Tutor list
• Contact businesses to sell ad
space
• Work on fundraising – writing
grants and public/private
donations
• Design the website a select a
server
• Find a free search engine
Ongoing tasks
include…
Building the
Database
The first step, and
perhaps the most critical,
is building a database
that includes:
 Subscribers
 Submitters
 Sponsors
 Advertisers
The Database…
Beginning with just the Lake Oswego area, we
gathered names of artisans, sponsors and possible
subscribers, and we entered these names with
addresses, contact numbers, and classification into
an Access database. To facilitate the first mailing,
the database was converted to Excel for mailmerge duties.
Next, we expanded our perimeters to include all of
greater metropolitan Portland. This database will
be continually revised and added to as we grow.
Excel Filter Feature
Designing First Flyer
Purpose : to announce the birth of
this new endeavor in the greater
Portland area.
 Explain what The Wordsmith
Collection is
 Solicit support from sponsors
 Get artisan submissions to
include in first issue
Cover Design
It is our goal to design
The Wordsmith Collection
to have a style similar
to The New Yorker
How they compare…
Magazine components…
• Drawings
• Paintings
• Photography
Illustration from Wordsmith Collection Vol. 1/ Issue 1 page 11
Other items of interest
•Calendar of events
•Tutor Directory
•Virtual Museum
•Advertisements
•List of Local Artists
Table of Contents from Vol.1/Issue1
Some Examples of Art & Prose
So Where Are We and Where do We go Next?
1st Mailing
Server—powweb
Web address:
www.wordsmithcollection.org
Web site Design
Volunteer recruitment and
supervision
Putting the new issue together,
both on-line and for print!!
Painting by Peter Kurinsky
Grant Writing
On the Web…
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Pottery
Sculpture
Animation
Music
Dance
Short videos
On-line galleries
Macromedia Dreamweaver
“WYSIWYG” Web Page Creation
Prototype #1
Prototype #2
Prototype #3
Wordsmith Collection
Upcoming events
• Thanks to all of the staff and volunteers
for answering all of our questions!
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“A Deer’s Progress” by Ben Parzbok
“Poem” & Rose illustration by William Carlos
Williams
“Lost Again in the Forest” by Shawna Mesenbrink
“Indian” & “Deer” by Stephen McCandless
“The Waiter” & “Untitled” by Peter Kurinsky
Credits