Instructors: Rebecca Lindamood & Julian Montague

Building a social media platformis increasingly necessary for writers & artists of all genres. This informational discussion will include helpful do's and don't's as well as practical advice for growing your social media audience and developing more engagement. With more than 212,000 Facebook followers; 60,000 Instagram followers; and 1.6 million Pinterest views per month between them, participants are sure to be inspired.

$40 | $35 for members

Rebecca Lindamood is a cookbook author, freelance food writer, recipe developer, travel enthusiast, Pilates and Barre instructor, as well as a mother of five perpetually-hungry boys, and wife to her biggest culinary fan. Her first cookbook, Not Your Mama’s Canning Book: Modern Canned Goods and What to Make with Them earned her an appearance in the Better Homes and Gardens 2013 special Canning edition and on The Pioneer Woman’s Tasty Kitchen among numerous other places. You can find Rebecca blogging at FoodiewithFamily.com, Facebook (where she has 212,000+ followers), Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest (with 1.6 million monthly viewers).

Julian Montague is a Buffalo, N.Y.-based artist, graphic designer, illustrator, and photographer. He employs his design, illustration, and photography skills in a series of art projects that explore the peripheral features of the domestic and urban environment. He is best known for a project in which he developed a system of classification for stray shopping carts. His book, The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification, was published in 2006 by Abrams Books. His work has also received attention from Artnews, Art in America, Frieze, New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Toronto Star, the BBC World Service, and many others. He has pieces in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Martin Z. Margulies, the Norton Museum of Art and the Progressive Insurance Company, as well as numerous private collections.