Art Business Education, Art Marketing and Promotion for Fine Artists

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Carolyn Quan is a visionary, entrepreneur and successful fine artist whose artwork has been collected by art collectors worldwide from Australia to Japan to Germany. She has been a successful, self-employed artist for the past 26 years in Toronto, New York City, Maui, Honolulu, and the San Francisco Bay Area. She has owned and operated The Quan Gallery in Waikiki which featured her work as well as The Quan Gallery on Maui, which she ran as an artist co-op gallery. She is an inspiration and mentor to many artists and has decades of hands-on experience and accumulated knowledge in business and in marketing and promotion in both the commercial and fine art worlds. She is passionate about sharing her experiences and knowledge with you, through the products and services offered on this website.

Carolyn was born in Toronto, Canada, lived in New York City for 11 years, 9 years in Hawaii, and now resides in Sausalito, California. Her accomplishments in life began at an early age and include several awards for leadership, scholarship, athletics and art, beginning in highschool. In art college, Carolyn was the recipient of the CityTV - MuchMusic Scholarship which included full tuition for her fourth year of studies and a summer internship at the MuchMusic television station which is Canada's version of MTV. After working as a graphic designer in television for 3 years in Toronto, Carolyn headed to New York City to pursue her dream of designing album covers in the music industry. Shortly after moving to NYC, she was offered a job as an Art Director at Arista Records where she went on to become the recipient of four gold records for her creative contributions to recording projects by Barry Manilow, Carly Simon, Yes and the Grateful Dead. After 3 years at Arista Records, Carolyn started her own graphic design company which specialized in the music and entertainment industries. Clients included PolyGram Records, Warner Music Int'l, Sony Music, TriStar, CBS Radio, and Black Entertainment Television, just to name a few. She worked on projects for many celebrity recording artists and entertainers including Eddie Izzard, Placido Domingo, Kenny G, Kiss, Aretha Franklin, Eurythmics, and Lionel Richie, amongst many others. In 1997, Carolyn created and launched a full-color glossy multicultural magazine, Urban Mozaik, which promotes cross cultural understanding and celebrates diversity and was distributed throughout Canada and the United States at major bookstores such as Barnes and Noble and Borders. It continues to be published today on the internet as an online e-magazine.

In 2000, Carolyn moved to Maui, Hawaii, and after 9-11 launched her career in fine art. Carolyn and her art have been featured in magazines, newspapers, television and radio and two of her nudes are included in the permanent collection of art at The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction in Bloomington, Indiana, which was founded by world renowned sex researcher, Dr. Alfred Kinsey. Her artwork has been shown in Rio de Janeiro; New York City; Los Angeles; Taos, New Mexico; Riviera Maya, Mexico; Toronto, Canada; and throughout the Hawaiian islands. In 2008 she moved to Oahu to open up The Quan Gallery in Waikiki. Carolyn has progressed through her fine art career at an accelerated speed and now enjoys a life filled with creativity, travel, family, friends, adventure, teaching/mentoring and doing art shows around the world. She is currently based in Sausalito, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

To learn more about Carolyn Quan, artwork and her creative endeavors please visit her official website at www.CarolynQuan.com

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