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mission  Our mission is to realize each client's ultimate career potential. Each indidividual's needs guide our promotion strategy. The nature of services provided varies in accordance with the artist’s goals and career trajectory. Upon mutual agreement to proceed, a consultation will initiate a dialogue that establishes these specific objectives.

We only enter into working relationships with an artist if we feel we have the resources to help the artist reach his/her goals. This is in no way a commentary or criticism of the artist's work. ARTWORK International was created to address the need for promotion and resources in all areas of the visual arts, and has grown to provide this expertise to over 40 artists, venues and publications in worldwide.

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Founder's Resume - click here.
Samantha Paige Furgason has been a resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico for 28 years and has held top administrative positions in the contemporary art market as well as heading several curatorial projects in the United States and Canada. In addition Ms. Furgason has worked directly with national and international art publications in the areas of both consultation and art direction.

Ms. Furgason left her position as Director of Conlon Siegal Contemporary Galleries in May of 1999 to found ARTWORKinternational. ARTWORKinternational results from over two decades of Ms. Furgason's work in the contemporary art market. Ms. Furgason now provides her knowledge, contacts and administrative excellence to over 30 artists internationally. ARTWORKinternational provides services ranging from grant writing and funding research to placement in national and international residencies, corporate collections, museums, and commercial venues. Previously, in her work with Detours of Santa Fe, Ms. Furgason led tours covering the arts, past present and future, as well as all genres of artwork, traditional to cutting edge. The tour groups ranged in size from 12 to 150 people, establishing her reputation as an informed and confident lecturer on regional, national and international artwork and artists.

In December of 2005 Ms. Furgason traveled to China. During her month-long visit she lectured on the Art of Art Promotion at Xiamen University, specifically the Chinese European Cultural Center. A similar presentation was delivered to the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC in 2004.

Since 2003 Furgason has served as Promotional Chair for the Santa Fe Museum of Fine Arts, Friends of Contemporary Art (FOCA)

 

select accomplishments / client placements

Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant

Creative Capital Foundation Grant

New Blood : New Mexico
van de Griff
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Santa Fe On Site 2002

Buschlen Mowatt Fine Art
Vancouver, Canada

Millennium Exhibition
Austin Museum
Austin, Texas

National Museum of Women in the Arts
Washington, DC

Millennium Exhibition
New Mexico Museum of Fine Art
Santa Fe, New Mexico

New Artists of the West
Eiteljorg Museum
Indianapolis, Indiana

Exhibition 7
Eiteljorg Museum
Indianapolis, Indiana

New Artists of the West
Exhibition 8

American Identities
The Art Museum of The State University of New York
Albany, New York

The Eiteljorg Museum
Indianapolis, Indiana

Permanent Collection
Purchase Award
Phoenix Museum of Art
Phoenix, Arizona

National Sculpture Society
New York, New York

The Jewish Museum
Denver, Colorado

Harwood Museum
Taos, New Mexico

American Museum of Craft
New York, New York

New Glass review 23
The Corning Museum of Glass
Corning, New York

Masur Museum of Art
Monroe, Louisiana

Yanquing International Sculpture Symposium
Yanquing County, China

90 Years of Tsing Hua University: Science and Art
China

Academic Seminar and Large Scale Art Exhibition
Beijing, China

 


ART in Embassies
Washington, DC

ART in Architecture
Washington, DC

New Mexico Arts
Acclaimed Artist Series
Purchase Award

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Residency

Creative Glass Center of America
Residency
Wheaton Village, New Jersey

Sculpturescape
Fort Collins, Colorado

Liquitex Artist of the Month Award

New American Painting

Nuehoff Gallery
New York, New York

Buschlen Mowatt Galleries
Palm Desert, California

Buschlen Mowatt Galleries
Vancouver, Canada

Dossin Gallery
Los Angeles, California

Finesilver Gallery
Austin, Texas

Pentimente Gallery
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

R. Duane Reed Gallery
Chicago, Illinois

R. Duane Reed Gallery
St. Louis, Missouri

van de Griff / Marr
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Munson Gallery
Santa Fe, New Mexico

E.S. Lawrence Gallery
Aspen, Colorado

A New Leaf Gallery
Berkeley, California

ARTnews

Art in America

Sculpture Magazine

Art World News

Glass

Southwest Art

Wildlife Art

New York Times

Chicago Tribune

The list continues...




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