Tuesday, 31 May 2011

Reformatting the artists' CV

    In April, one of the biggest tasks I finished was to reformat many artists' CV. Our institution has its own CV format - the concise format can well fit into any exhibition or printed brochure, but a lot of artists' CV had overwhelming word counts and various styles.  
    The process of reformatting was tiring but I got a good idea how to arrange an artist's CV with  a clear structure, and more important, I was really pleased with serving for the artist who needed our help. 
    After reformatting those CV, I was given several artists' names and required to send emails to the galleries representing them to ask for their CV, for our organisation currently lost their records. I firstly wrote down their names on a new word file and then searched all of them online in oder to find available CV. I sent out about five emails to the four galleries to ask for the detailed CV, but two galleries responded me with very strange ones of few information; although I request so many times, no replies any more.  The artist David Thomson replied me the following week, and I reformatted all the CV I got from those kind-hearted galleries. 
    As last, I sent a small report to the curator, in which I identified the artists whose CV were successfully reformatted, whose CV were provided again by the galleries and whose CV lacked details and still needed the contact with the galleries. 
    I practised being more and more organised in every task. ~^o^~

4 comments:

  1. Formatting CV's is such a long and tedious task! It's great the organisation has an intern like you getting all the necessary information for them!

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  2. CV writing is quite an art. Very good of you to do for others. I used to teach people how to write good ones. I find a lot of artist CV's are WAY too long.

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  3. Do you feel that artists and art institutions are so busy that we can rarely get responce from them?
    It really made us depressed.But it is also an essential part of internship.

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  4. Hi Penny
    My experience is that you can get the fast response if you can find the "right person"--normally someone who is in charge of the project/task, instead of the HR/PR person
    so maybe try use Linked In or other professional networking?

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