Artist, INC
Artist, INC is a cutting-edge training seminar that addresses the specific business needs and challenges artists of all disciplines face every day. Limited to 25 participants per session, artists gather for one night a week for eight weeks to learn business skills specific to their art practice and apply those skills cooperatively with their peers. Using an innovative class design, artists learn and grow together through artist facilitator mentoring, small group application activities, as well as large group discussion and multi-media lectures.
Artist, INC is presented by the Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City, Charlotte Street Foundation and the Missouri Business & Technology Development Center. Artist, INC is part of the Creative Communities program of Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC), funded by the Ford Foundation. Creative Communities programs are designed to reflect the diversity of the local community, and our goal is to have the participants in each Artist, INC workshop reflect a balanced cross-section of artists from multiple disciplines, backgrounds and ethnicities.
For more information about Artist INC, please visit http://www.kcartistlink.com/artistinc.
Participating Artists Will Gain:
- tools and skills in arts planning, marketing, finance, law, and technology;
- an increased knowledge of and ability to access local and national art business resources;
- a strategic artist's plan for pursuing, marketing and sustaining their art; and
- a long-term network of cross-discipline, diverse artists to provide peer learning and support into the future
Workshop Schedule
- The Business Art Paradox: strategic planning and goal setting for your art (they really do go together)
- Marketing Your Art (without selling your soul): communicating the message of your art
- Budget is Not a Four Letter Word: managing money and financial planning
- Show Me the Money: finding grants and fellowships and raising capital
- Zen and the Law of Art: business structure, intellectual property, and basic legal issues facing artists
- Better Than Pulling Teeth: writing about your work
- Artist.com: understanding the technology artists need to use
- Opening Night: sharing your completed artist's plan