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Artist Business Training registration opens
The Arts Extension Service at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and its partners at North Quabbin Woods, C3, Art for the Soul Gallery and Springfield Technical Community College announce that registration for three upcoming Artist Business trainings is now open. This one-and a half day training will be held in three locations- one each in Franklin, Hampshire and Franklin Counties. Attendance at each training is limited to 25 artists, and pre-registration is required. Each session will consist of four key components: (1) A 1 ½ day artist business training led by Arts Extension Service (AES) instructors Maren Brown and Dee Boyle-Clapp, which includes Business Basics, Marketing, and finding income in the new economy; (2) individual phone consultations with AES staff; (3) facilitated Networking meetings with Site Coordinators who will host monthly meetings to help build artist peer groups; and (4) handouts including a copy of the Arts Extension Service’s Artist in Business workbook, and access to a private Artist Business Resource area on the AES website.
Interested artists should register with the site coordinator at each location or contact the Arts Extension Service at aes@contined.umass.edu to be referred to a site or follow the links from the News page at www.umass.edu/aes.
- The Franklin County training will be held on April 21-22 at the Petersham Town Hall. To register contact North Quabbin Woods’s site coordinator Sarah McMaster at office@northquabbinwoods.org or 978.544.3332.
- The Hamden County training will be held on April 28-29 at Springfield Technical Community College. Site coordinator Tracy Woods of Art for the Soul Gallery, is accepting registrations online at: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGpORUx4bjZLcGRORHp6Q0I4emdwLVE6MA and can be contacted at artforthesoul@verizon.net.
- The Hampshire County training will be held on May 5-6 at the former Dynamite Records space, Thorne’s Marketplace, and is coordinated with Commonwealth Center for Change (C3) co-director Julia Handschuh. Register by visiting Valley Art Share at http://www.valleyartshare.com/page/so-you-want-to-learn-the or contact C3 info@commonwealthcenter.org.
This program is offered free of charge to resident artists with support from the Community Foundation of Western MA’s Buxton Charitable Foundation Fund, Bank of America, Trustee, and the Credit Data Services, Inc. Fund and the Springfield Cultural Council.
The Arts Extension Service (AES) is a national arts service organization located at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. AES offers online arts management classes, two Arts Management Certificates, workshops and trainings to artists and arts managers across the country, and conducts research with a focus on cultural and creative economy work.
According to Arts Extension Service Director, Maren Brown, “We are grateful to the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts for their support of the region’s artists. The economic downturn has deeply impacted the arts in the United States and the region. Across the country, artists are experiencing vastly disproportionate unemployment rates: 50% more than other professionals with equal education, according to a recently released National Endowment for the Arts report. According to a recent report by the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission, our region has a 61% higher proportion of creative workers than the national average. If our artists and their small businesses fail, our region’s economy is at risk.”
Says AES Program Coordinator, Dee Boyle-Clapp, “Artists are the backbone of the Creative Economy, and their work has defined much of how we enjoy life in the Pioneer Valley. While their contributions are appreciated by visitors and residents, the nature of the work can make many artists economically vulnerable in the best of times. One of our goals is to provide artists with a network of similarly focused artists, so they can not only turn to their Site Coordinator and AES for business-related ideas and information, but to one another for support for the work, awareness of the issues, and mutual understanding that only another artist can provide.”
Joomi Chung to speak on campus, March 2, 2010
The new UMass Alumni Art Stars Speaker Series presented in partnership by the UMass Arts Extension Service and Art Department, kicked off on Wednesday, February 24th (despite the snow!) with a lecture by Larry Bamburg, and continues Tuesday, March 2nd with a lecture by Joomi Chung at 4:30 p.m. at the Studio Arts Building, located at the campus entrance on North Pleasant Street. The UMass Alumni Art Stars Speaker Series, made possible in part by a grant from the UMass Arts Council and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, is free and open to the public.
Join AES for Artist Business Training Programs at the Vermont Arts Council
Contact the Vermont Arts Council at info@arts.vca.state.vt.us for information and to register for one of our signature one-and-a-half day training programs to be held in Rutland on February 13, 14 (Snow Date: February 20, 21) and in Morrisville on April 10, 11 (Snow Date: April 17, 18). See details below.
Join AES at Kentucky Arts for our Peer Advising Network Training! Dec. 2-4, 2009 in Frankfort, Kentucky
Current Peer Advisors are invited to join us on Wednesday, December 2, 2009: Refresher Training for Returning Peer Advisors (9 a.m.–Noon ) To register, contact Charla Reed at charla.reed.ky.gov
In these tough economic times now is YOUR time to hone your skills and refresh yourself so you can support other organizations in need.
New Peer Advisors are invited to join us on Thursday, December 3, 2009 (9 a.m.-9 p.m.) & Friday, December 4, 2009 (8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.) To register, contact Charla Reed at charla.reed.ky.gov. New Peer Advisors Learn to think like a consultant. Learn the steps in the consulting process, learn organizational assessment, principles, tools, case study and discuss resistance and conflict. Topics to be covered include:
• Challenges facilitating organizational change
• Consulting interventions: the tools of the trade
• Problem framing: case study
• Problem solving
• Consulting reports
• Disengagement and closure from consulting
• Ethical issues in consulting
• Discussion of actual application of participants’ learning
• Closure and workshop evaluation
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