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A Page from Our Handbook: Writing About Your Work
This post marked the second in our “A Page From Our Handbook” series, featuring excerpts from the Professional Development Program’s Artist’s Tools Handbook, by PDP Core Leaders Jackie Battenfield and...
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Real-Life Budgeting: Building a Sustainable Life as an Artist
Andrew Simonet in Headlong Dance Theater’s performance work, “Hotel Pool” On Monday, September 15th at 7:00pm EST, Andrew Simonet presents the Creative Capital webinar “Real-Life Budgeting.”...
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Putting Your Best Face Forward: Smartphone Photos for Your Artist Website
On Monday, October 6th at 7pm EST, artist Sue Schaffner presents her “Web, Blog & Email Essentials” webinar, an overview of best practices for your website, blog, and email marketing and...
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Kickstarter School: Learning to Connect
On Monday, October 20th at 7pm EST, Kickstarter Art Program Director Stephanie Pereira presents her “Kickstarter School” webinar, an invaluable primer on how to bring a Kickstarter project to life....
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400 Communities and Counting: Professional Development Program Milestones
PDP Workshop Leader Jackie Battenfield leads artist participants during a Core Weekend Workshop in Anchorage, AK. The workshop was PDP’s first in Alaska, in May 2014. Over the past 11 years, Creative...
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Authentic Branding: An Exercise in Landing Your Brand
Participants in a recent PDP workshop in Miami, led by Maxine Lapiduss. According to PDP leader, strategist and entertainment industry veteran Maxine Lapiduss, “If you have the intention of making a...
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A Page From Our Handbook: Best Practices for Your Artist Website
Artist Leader Brad Stephenson giving website advice to a participant at an Internet for Artists Workshop in New York City. The following post comes from the Professional Development Program’s (PDP)...
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The Art of Conversation: Five Questions for Moira Brennan
Moira Brennan leads a session at the Theatre Communications Group National Conference in 2010. Moira Brennan is an arts writer and Program Director of the MAP Fund. On Monday, January 19, she will host...
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Lessons in Sustainability: Five Questions for Sharon Louden
Sharon Louden teaches at the Chautauqua Institution. This winter, artist Sharon Louden hosts her first four-part webinar series: How to Approach, Engage & Communicate with Galleries, Museums &...
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Straight Talk About Doing Good: Five Questions For Stephanie Bleyer
Stephanie Bleyer speaks to the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture in Cleveland. Stephanie Bleyer is a project manager and founder of Six Foot Chipmunk, a boutique consultancy providing a...
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A Page From Our Handbook: What Goes Into a Project or Annual Budget?
Creating a budget for your next project (or your next year) can be tricky, especially when you plan on providing that information to a funder, in the hopes of securing a grant. How much is too much?...
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Creating an “Artists Raising Kids” Community
Andrew Simonet with his sons Nicolo & Jesse. Last fall, we hosted a new Creative Capital webinar titled “Artists Raising Kids,” led by choreographer and dad Andrew Simonet. The number of passionate...
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Reaching Constituencies: Brainstorming a Targeted Marketing Strategy
Marketing yourself and your artistic work can seem like a daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be. In fact, marketing may be closer to your creative process than you think. The following exercise,...
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Not “Just” Artists: Five Questions for Susan K. Schear
Susan Koblin Schear is an arts consultant and founder of ARTISIN, LLC, which offers comprehensive, process-oriented and holistically-based planning and business development, management and...
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On Public Art & Going “Feral” : Five Questions for Lynn Basa
Lynn Basa is a full-time artist living in Chicago. Her practice is focused on painting and public art. Formerly an instructor in the Sculpture department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago,...
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A Room of One’s Own: Upcoming Residency Opportunities for Writers
Image by Erin Kohlenberg Do you ever wonder, “How am I possibly going to find the time to sit down and write my next book around my day job, taking care of my family, eating, sleeping…?” Uninterrupted...
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Social Media Tips: It’s About Quality, Not Quantity
Creatives have heard time and time again about the growing importance of promoting our work via social media. You might have thousands of friends and post on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, and...
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Marketing as Self-Definition
¡Viva las Roots! at Intermedia Arts, Robert Karimi, 2011 If marketing leaves you feeling uneasy, reconsider how you approach it. For artists, marketing is an exercise in self-definition, not...
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Grants, Success and Strategy: 5 Questions for Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer
Frustrated by proposal guidelines? Overwhelmed with looming deadlines? Creative Capital is premiering the latest offering in our Professional Development Program just in time for application season. On...
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Social Networks: A Page From Our Handbook
Every few weeks we post tips straight from the Professional Development Program’s Artist’s Tools Handbook, a 200+ page resource we give to Core Workshop attendees, written by PDP Core Leaders Jackie...
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