Announcing Our 2nd Round of Crisis-Focused
Free Financial & Business Webinars
CONNECTICUT
With the COVID-19 pandemic’s devastating effect on practicing artists, Assets for Artists quickly redesigned its business and financial education programming to provide artists with new, crisis-focused, distance-learning opportunities that largely retain the intimate cohort-focused style of our in-person workshops. Some workshops translate our usual offerings into a webinar format, while many cover new topics that focus specifically on current challenges, relief efforts, and opportunities.
All workshops are FREE and held via Zoom, with pre-registration required to keep the webinar cohorts at a size that maximizes participation and peer support.
Funding and cohort size restrictions mean that certain online workshops will prioritize or be open exclusively to artists from a specific region. After you submit your information through the Zoom registration, our staff will contact those who qualify and make the enrollment cut-off with additional details on participating. Contact us at assetsforartists@massmoca.org with any questions.
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FREE WEBINARS
CONNECTICUT ARTISTS
Photo by Cat Laine, Painted Foot Studio
“Creative Practice Within Virtual Communities” w/ Shey Rivera Rios
Wednesday, May 27 | 2:00 - 3:30 PM
Participants will renew the tools and knowledge to which they already have access in order to answer the question, how can community-engaged artists extend their work into virtual spaces? Drawing inspiration from the successes of artists already using digital tools, this workshop will create space for participants to push their creative power, expand the horizon of their creative practice, embrace fear, and see the opportunities at their disposal. Shey Rivera Rios is an interdisciplinary artist, cultural strategist, and arts administrator whose artistic creations span a myriad of topics, from home to capitalism to queerness and magic. Best suited for community-engaged artists.
Open to artists from CT, RI & MA with preference to Greenfield MA Community College students and residents of Franklin, Hampshire and Hampden Counties, MA.
This webinar has passed. We hope to offer more sessions of this webinar soon.
Photo Credit: Erin Long Photography
¡Grant Writing para artistas EN ESPAÑOL! con Yara Liceaga-Rojas
Viernes, 5 de junio | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Para artistas, ¡la temporada de escritura de propuestas para financiación de proyectos de arte nunca termina! En este taller virtual de apróximadamente 2 horas exploramos los elementos básicos de una propuesta, desde investigar cómo conseguir becas que se ajusten a tu práctica o proyecto, ha lograr esa oración cautivadora que recoge la magnitud del proyecto, hasta desarrollar un presupuesto sencillo. En este taller recibirás retroalimentación sobre el borrador de tu próximo proyecto y saldrás con las herramientas necesarias para encontrar las oportunidades de financiación que necesitas.
Disponible para artistas en RI, MA & CT.
This webinar has passed. We hope to offer more sessions of this webinar soon.
“Financial Strategies for Freelance Artists” w/ Amy Smith
Tuesday, June 9 | 2:00 - 4:00 PM
Financial shame gets imposed on artists by our socioeconomic structures. Your financial situation is not shameful. In this workshop, Amy Smith covers the financial building blocks necessary for surviving a career as a freelancer, including personal finance topics such as debt management in a time of crisis, emergency funds, private and governmental safety nets, tax issues, and how to negotiate with lenders. Participants will leave empowered to combat the scarcity mentality and impostor syndrome ever present in the creative sector. Amy Smith is an educator and the Co-Director of Headlong Dance Theater, a Bessie-award winning Philadelphia-based dance theater company. Suitable for artists in all disciplines.
Open to artists from CT, RI & MA with preference to artists in rural CT, rural RI and North Adams, MA.
This webinar has passed. We hope to offer more sessions of this webinar soon.
“The Art of Licensing” w/ Alison Cole
Tuesday, June 23 | 2:00 - 4:00 PM
Allison Cole is an award-winning illustrator, artist and surface designer who never stops creating. Over the past fifteen years, she has worked with a wide variety of clients that span many different industries, including stationery, wall art, giftware, apparel, home furnishings and bolt fabric. In this webinar participants will learn about the industry of surface design and art licensing, and discover how artists can get their designs on a wide variety of products by partnering with different companies. You will learn about marketing and branding your work, reaching clients and setting achievable goals. Best for visual artists.
Open to artists from CT, RI & MA with preference to artists in rural CT, rural RI and North Adams, MA.
“Staying Creative & Being Resourceful”
w/ Jessica Burko
Friday, June 26 | 2:00 - 4:00 PM
This workshop helps artists move their creative momentum forward and maximize their home time while access to studio space, equipment, materials, and emotional energy might be limited. Split into three interactive parts, Jessica will cover current grant opportunities and other business-focused activities to focus on in this moment, and then move on to a series of short exercises intended to train the creative brain and build community connection. Jessica Burko is a Boston-based exhibiting artist, curator, and arts marketing professional. Best suited for visual artists.
Open to all Connecticut artists, with a preference for artists in Litchfield County.
“The Essentials of Digital Marketing” w/ Francesca Olsen
Wednesday, July 1 | 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Learn how to successfully market yourself and your creative practice online during this time of social distancing through branding, social media, and SEO optimization, By the end of this workshop, participants will have the tools to build an online audience, evaluate what digital platforms are best for their work, use analytics to determine future decision making, and put together a marketing plan that covers multiple platforms. Best suited for artists of all disciplines with basic social media knowledge. Francesca Olsen is a writer, musician, and textile artist who is also the Creative and Brand Strategy Manager at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Suitable for artists in all disciplines.
Open to all Connecticut artists, with a preference for artists in Litchfield County.
Our Massachusetts programming is made possible by the generous support of the Barr Foundation, the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, Greenfield Community College and its Ideation Center, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Business Development Grant program, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts through the Massachusetts Growth Capital Corporation. Our Connecticut programming is thanks to our amazing partners at the Connecticut Office of the Arts, Northwest Connecticut Arts Council, Southeast Connecticut Cultural Coalition, Windham Arts, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Our Rhode Island programming is sponsored by the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.