The First Annual deviantART Summit Brings the Best Minds in Art and Technology
to the Historic Hollywood Palladium June 17-18, 2005

Featuring Appearances by Union Entertainment's Sean O' Keefe, Marvel Comics'
Mark Brooks, + Celebrity Photographer Chris Weeks

The Online Art Society, With a Global Following Topping 1., IStockphoto.
The two-day event will cost $55 until May 15 and more details are
available at http://www.5 trillion in assets under custody and $1.

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5 Million, was
Lauded in USA TODAY for Helping Artists via Innovative Technology

LOS ANGELES, The first major event launched by
deviantART.5 million members worldwide, hosts more than 12 million pieces of
art and harnesses one of the largest audiences on the worldwide web .
The deviantART Summit will be a dynamic art exhibition recreating what
takes place on deviantART .com every day, with galleries featuring many kinds
of art -- from anime to literature, digital art to flash, photography to pixel
art.com,
Linspire, Stardock, Dragon*Con, GarageGames, DAZ Productions , BandMerch,
depthCORE, e-frontier, End Effect, Phirebrush, 4X6, Naature, Noir, and
ToneThis.com

Included in this were grants totaling $275,000 from the program's
Disaster Relief Emergency Assistance Fund, which supported relief
efforts in Florida, several Southeastern U.S.4 trillion in assets
under management as of December 31, 2004, State Street operates in 25
countries and more than 100 markets worldwide.

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Frank Sinatra opened the venue back in 1940 and now deviantART
will make it legendary again in 2005 as thousands of artists and experts in
technology, gaming and publishing converge on the deviantART Summit on
June 17 and 18, 2005.
Top-tier celebrity photographer Chris Weeks will relay the voodoo magic
that goes into creating a solid lighting setup without spending the cash,
while deviantART's top selling artist, Aaron Jasinski, will be instructing a
class on developing personal style and finding your unique voice in the noisy
world of art ." Union Entertainment Co-Founder Sean O'Keefe will lead a panel on
"Hollywood: The Art of Gaming and Motion Pictures," sharing his expertise on
the process of creating artwork for these industries , which he has done on
several major projects, including Frank Miller's Sin City.
Confirmed sponsors include Adobe, Wacom, Hash Inc.

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million). The program also supported select arts and cultural
initiatives (30 grants totaling more than $500,000) along with civic
improvements (10 grants totaling more than $90,000).

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deviantART's CEO/Co-Founder Angelo Sotira is thrilled to be able to bring
this summit to realization. State Street granted an additional
$290,000 to 38 non-profit organizations to sponsor fund-raising
events. Each year, the company directs a portion of its pre-tax
profits to the State Street Foundation, which funds the Global
Philanthropy Program, in order to help address community needs.

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BOSTON----State Street Corporation
(NYSE: STT ), the world's leading provider of services to institutional
investors, announced today that its Global Philanthropy Program made
528 grants totaling more than US$9.1 million);
youth programs (101 grants totaling more than $1.

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$595,000 in future commitments.statestreet.

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State Street Global Philanthropy Program Reports 2004 Grants of More than US$9.3 Million

The program contributed to nonprofit organizations that provide
community service initiatives in four primary focus areas: education
and job skills training (146 grants totaling more than $3 million);
health and human needs (178 grants totaling more than $3.2 million); and
neighborhood revitalization (45 grants totaling more than $1. In addition,
State Street awarded 16 grants totaling nearly $80,000 to charitable
organizations in honor of State Street volunteers and one grant of
$10,000 for management assistance.

About State Street Corporation

State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) is the world's leading
specialist in providing institutional investors with investment
servicing, investment management and investment research and trading.

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It will also present artists with the opportunity to learn how to break
into the big time with their art, and how to perfect their craft from some of
the best in the business .
High profile artists at the top of their game will be teaching workshops
at the summit, including the current artist behind Spiderman, Mark Brooks, who
will be giving comic illustration tips and showing how Marvel's comics go from
a blank page to brilliantly-colorful sequential art. states, Haiti and the
Cayman Islands, following a series of hurricanes that caused extensive
damage in the region last fall.com

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com, which was recently featured in a USA Today "Money" cover
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com, home to the largest art community in the world, will now be
held at one of the most prominent venues in Los Angeles -- The Hollywood
Palladium. "This will be one of the most groundbreaking,
innovative art exhibits of our time, bringing the cyberworld and the
traditional art scene under one roof. Also, Dragon*Con
director Patrick Roberts will explain how he co-created one of the largest
annual Science Fiction and Fantasy themed conventions in the world.
State Street's Global Philanthropy Program had 29 individual
contribution committees in 18 countries in 2004, including Australia,
Belgium, Canada, Cayman Islands, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy,
Japan, Luxembourg, People's Republic of China (Hong Kong SAR),
Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United
Kingdom, and the U .S.

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The opportunity to have such an
incredible scope of artists from so wide a range of fields all sharing their
work together is truly unique. Also, Ryan Odagawa,
illustrator for the top selling comic, Resident Evil (based on the hit video
game series from Capcom), will share secrets of what it takes to be a pro in
the comic book industry and create a book from scratch.
Panel topics range from "Art on the Fringe: Misinterpreted Artists and
Shock Art" to "Digital Tools -- Million Dollar Techniques Without Investing a
Fortune.deviantartsummit.