For years I have longed for a place where I could interactive with and meet new local artists. Having participated in many technical groups, I have grown to rely on and take for granted both the camaraderie and invaluable resource of information that such communities provide and vowed to someday create the resource I longed for. I fulfilled this dream in March of 2007 with the launch of the Utah Graphic Artists Forum, a guild of local professional, amateur, and student artists with the goal of promoting and supporting the development and expression of the graphic arts and to facilitating and ecouraging conversations and interaction between graphic artists in Utah. Site features include a discussion board, mailing lists, an IRC channel for chat, job announcements, RSS feeds, syndicated calendar events, monthly gatherings featuring speakers or workshops, and field trips. Response was even greater than I had anticipated with over eighty people registering accounts within the first three weeks.
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