The Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City

Art is the heart of every great place to live, especially ours.

76% of respondents feel that a company's involvement with the community, including arts-related activities, would influence their decision to buy that company's stock.

- BCA National Art in the Workplace Web Survey Results - July 2003

IMPORTANT LINC NEWS

LINC in New York awarded a two-year $100,000 grant to KC Artist LINC (now known as KCArtistLink) to provide new professional development opportunities and resources in the metro area. The funding helped to create Artist, INC, a series of career building and professional development workshops for artists, and the new KCArtistLink website, a network connection service of resources that provides information about business-building and support programs to all artists throughout the region.

Artist, INC seminars are held at least twice a year, providing 25 artists at a time with an 8 week course of Monday night sessions that focus on professional development and entrepreneurial training for emerging and mid-career artists. The next application deadline will be December 1, 2009 and application details will be posted soon.

Kansas City Artists -- if you haven't already signed up for KC Artist LINC, please join now! You'll receive emails form us when there's important news about our LINC programs for artists in Kansas City.

If you're a metro area artist, we want to hear from you, and we want to help you to be more successful in your work. Sign up now to be a part of KC Artist LINC.

We're looking for artists working in all disciplines--musicians, visual artists, actors, dancers, writers, filmmakers, and others--artists from all backgrounds and all communities throughout the KC metro area.

How does this work? You let us know:

who you are,
how to contact you,
a little about yourself.

Then you'll be all set to hear more from us about LINC, a national effort to help artists. You'll hear news about:

affordable health insurance and health care for artists,
professional development and training opportunities,
finding studio and live/work space,
other great stuff for artists as we add additional resources.

LINC has been working for several years with local partners in places like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, and other major cities to find ways to make lives and working conditions better for artists in the United States. (LINC stands for Leveraging Investments in Creativity, and is funded in part by the Ford Foundation.)

So, tell us a little bit about yourself below, get involved, and get ready to roll up your sleeves as we LINC the artist community here more closely together, so we can all work to make this an even better home for you and your fellow artists!