Creative Santa Fe: Strengthening Santa Fe's Creative Economy
Entrepreneurship Training for Artists and Creative Workers
Entrepreneurship and business skills training tailored to the specific needs of artists and the creative community has largely been ignored across the country, until very recently.
A Creative Santa Fe assessment of the entrepreneurship training delivered in Santa Fe shows a lack of programs targeted specifically to artists and other creative workers. There are many workshops delivering general business skills and management training, but few are specifically addressing the needs of artists and creative workers.
Creative Santa Fe is now holding discussions with a number of providers of trainings and workshops in Santa Fe. We are working to develop a preliminary curriculum for creative workers and hope to start a series of creative business workshops by spring of 2009.
Naturally, we are looking at existing programs, and around the country, there are a handful of new, focused programs underway.
Toolbox Curriculum
Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston: www.vlama.org/artists_arts_organizations/educational_programs/toolbox
EDGE Professional Development Program
Artists Trust in Seattle: www.artisttrust.org/services/edge
The Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists
Springboard for the Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota: www.springboardforthearts.org/Services/WorkOfArt.asp
Visiting Artists Program
Arts Business Institute in Baltimore: www.artsbusinessinstitute.org
Arts Entrepreneurship & Technology 101
Dr. Elliot McGucken at UNC Chapel Hill: www.artsentrepreneurship.com
More links can be found at Arts Entrepreneurship Educator's Network: www.ae2n.net/page11/page11.htm
Other communities are working to develop appropriate entrepreneurship training programs for their communities. Read about them in recent article:
Transforming Art Into a More Lucrative Career Choice
By Marci Alboher, New York Times, Nov. 26, 2008
Some artists have begun to figure out ways to make money and make art—aiming to end the notion that "starving" and "artist" are necessarily linked. Rather than seeing art as something to pursue in the hours when they are not earning a living, these artists are developing businesses around their talents. These artists are part of a growing movement that has caught the attention of business experts and is being nudged along by both art and business schools. Here's the link for the full article:
www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/business/smallbusiness/27shift.html?_r=1
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