• Art-Iceland.com is growing fast!
• Reykjavik Art Festival
• Event on Skólavörðustígur
• Art Wall - new artists
• Sigurður Þórir opens an exhibition
• Starting a web site!

Art-Iceland.com
 

• Art-Iceland.com is growing fast!

The Art_iceland.com web got aired in late February and has since grown to be ranked by Alexa at 145.890 which makes the site position in the top 1% of all web sites!

The responce by artists has also been great. Six artists are now on-line and more are coming to show their work. We have intentionally started slow in advertizing the site. Our emphasis is on quality rather than quantity!

A shopping basket is in the makings. That means that the shopping experience will be better and taking orders more secure.

• Reykjavík Art Festival

The Reykjavík Arts Festival 2004 was formally opened at Friday May 14th at the National Gallery of Iceland. Many outstanding international artists will be appearing along with Icelandic artists at the Festival.
Among international stars 2004 are Russian mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina, singing with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra (May 19 and 22). Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov, Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin (May 15 and 16) and Peruvian Grammy award winner Susana Baca (May 30 and 31).
Other highlights are The Brodsky Quartet with Sjón (Anna and the Moods), Felix music award winner Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson and the Irish musician Donal Lunny (Island –Éire), the internationally striking dancer Erna Ómarsdóttir and the composer Jóhann Jóhannsson with a collaborative work (IBM 1401), Nobel Laureate Seamus Heany and Ireland’s master uilleann pipe Liam O’Flynn and their performance Poet and the piper, the legendary Icelandic bass player Tómas R. Einarsson and Jaguar and the male choir of St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow, Handmade in Iceland, a concert and film about Reykjavik music sense. From the famous Rustaveli State Theatre, Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Körper from Schaubühne and Sankai Juku from Japan. –to name but a few!!
See further feature articles at the website www.artfest.is.
 

• Event on Skólavörðustígur on the 22nd of May 2004.

We are four students (three Icelandic and one Swedish) from Kaospiloterne, a creative project management and entrepreneur school in, Denmark (www.kaospilot.dk). Our final project for this first year will be to lift up the life of the city centre. It has for long been on people’s lips that something has to change in the city. We think it’s an excellent opportunity to market Skólavörðustígur as an attractive street with a variety of quality shops.

There will be several events on Skólavörðustígur on the 22nd of May. On this day you can see the interesting process behind artists work. Some will be working in street (if weather allows) and some in their galleries. You have a chance to buy handmade Icelandic crafts and designs not to be found anywhere else. The galleries will invite you in to have something small to drink and a snack and there will be live music in the street.

The choir from Hallgrímskirkja church will sing and have a flea market in front of the church.
Kramhúsið will perform salsa, belly dancing, African dances, theatre, yoga and feng shui. Brúðubíllinn will perform puppet shows twice between 11-12:30pm.
Come also and listen to Guðjón Friðriksson, famous Historian.

Welcome to Skólavörðustígur!!

• Art Wall - new artists

As we said before six artists are now on-line. They represent a strong and varied assembly of visual artists.

• Sigurður Þórir opens an exhibition

Sigurður Þórir opens the exhibition in the Nordic House in Reykjavík. The exhibition is called "From the World of Forms" and is open between May 22. and June 13.

You can see his work on the Art-Iceland web site: Click here.

For those of you that can not attend we will be at the opening and report in the next issue of the Art-Iceland Newsletter.

• Starting a web site!

Starting a new web site is a dream of many but only a handful take the step.
We find that using the detailed steps we got from reading an e-book from SiteSell gives us a great plan to follow.
The method is basically simple:
C - Build Content - ranking high at search engines.
T - Receive Traffic - interested in your message.
P - PREsell - by OVERdelivering content.
M - Monetize - in a variety of ways.

Check it out at http://buildit.sitesell.com/thrandur.html
or read about the e-book and get download instructions at http://www.art-iceland.com/affiliatemasters.html

Best wishes,
Álfheiður Ólafsdóttir
Þrándur Arnþórsson