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Professional Development Program Presents its 200th Workshop in an Inspiring Cross-Country Weekend

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In Columbus, OH, Steve Lambert, an Artist Leader for the Internet for Artists workshop, explains the importance of using Content Management Systems.

This past weekend marked our Professional Development Program’s 200th workshop! Since the program launched in 2003, we’ve presented PDP workshops with 87 community partners in 71 cities, and nearly 4,500 artists across the country have attended. PDP has been incredibly busy lately, with workshops in Puerto Rico, Ohio and North Dakota in the last weekend alone!

Creative Capital worked with Beta-Local to present our Spanish-language workshop, Taller Profesional de Desarollo para Artistas, for the second time in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Continue reading →

PDP in New Orleans: “A Whole New Perspective on Working as a Professional Artist”

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Creative Capital’s Professional Development Program (PDP) has worked with more than 50 communities across the country to present workshops that help artists to build sustainable practices. Earlier this month, PDP travelled to New Orleans to present a Core Weekend workshop, our hallmark professional development offering that tackles strategic planning, funding your work and promoting your work. This workshop, supported by the Kresge Foundation, was hosted by the Creative Alliance of New Orleans at the Joan Mitchell Center, and the PDP workshop leaders were Colleen Keegan, Jackie Battenfield, Aaron Landsman, and three Creative Capital grantees: Beverly McIver, Andrew Simonet and Byron Au Yong.

The diverse group of 24 workshop participants, mostly from New Orleans, included 13 visual artists, seven performing artists, two filmmakers, a poet and a fashion designer. By all accounts, this was a truly remarkable group of artists and PDP workshop leaders, making for an exceptional experience. Continue reading →

Creative Capital On the Road: Los Angeles, February 2012

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Creative Capital welcomed our new 2012 class of grantees with a celebration at LA><ART in Los Angeles on February 24. Left to right: Jill Hartz, Lyda Kuth (CC board), Sean Elwood (CC Director of Programs & Initiatives), Mike Plante (2012 grant panelist) and Richard Herskowitz.


Ruby Lerner (CC President & Executive Director) greeted the group and introduced our 2012 grantees in Film/Video and Visual Arts. Continue reading →

Tampa Tales: Performing Artists at NPN’s Annual Meeting

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Kristina Wong (2006 Performing Arts) presented her new play Cat Lady at the NPN Conference in Tampa.

Despite living in Tallahassee over two decades ago, I only recently learned that Tampa is considered Gulf Coast Florida not Central Florida!  On my first visit to the city, I spent three days at the National Performance Network’s inspiring, informative and fun Annual Meeting.

Since Creative Capital is headed into a Performing Arts grant year, NPN’s gathering easily shot to the top of our annual conference attendance list this year and I served as the official Creative Capital representative. NPN is a national organization supporting artists in the creation and touring of contemporary performing and visual arts, and its annual meeting brings together over 300 performing artists, presenters and funders to discuss pressing issues in the field. One “idea forum” I attended outlined lessons learned by the Joan Mitchell Foundation’s important initiative on the issue of legacy planning among artists, while another looked at the challenges of supporting performing arts residencies. Continue reading →

Dispatch from Miami: Creative Capital Artists at the Fairs

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Brian Knep‘s Creative Capital-supported project, the interactive floor projection Healing, is installed at SEVEN, co-presented by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts and Creative Capital.


Creative Capital hosted a family-style brunch at SEVEN on Friday, December 2 for artists, supporters and friends. Board member Stephen Reily welcomed the group. Continue reading →

Grant Info Sessions: Reaching Out to Artists Nationwide

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Ruby Lerner presenting a grant info session in Kansas City

Creative Capital’s info sessions are simply gatherings where we can tell artists about what we do and how they can apply for a grant. Because we have one of the few open and competitive artist grant applications in the country, and because our selection process is multi-layered, takes a while, requires a good deal of thought and, yes, effort, we’ve always felt it important to reach out to artists. Not only to spread the word about Creative Capital, but to also offer advice, answer questions and get feedback about our system. We try to do these face-to-face meetings several times a year in different parts of the country.

I recently returned from a trip to the Pacific Northwest where I conducted two meetings, one in Seattle at On The Boards, and a second in Portland at PICA’s Washington High School. In December, I’ll do a meeting in Miami, and in February, I’ll barnstorm through Houston, Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles and, perhaps, San Diego. Continue reading →

Professional Development for Artists: Tools for Change

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Left to right: Alyson Pou, Roberto Bedoya, Cora Mirikitani and Nancy Trovillion

A few weeks ago, I organized and moderated a panel discussion on professional development for artists at the Grantmakers for the Arts Annual Conference in San Francisco. The panelists who joined me were: Roberto Bedoya, Executive Director of the Tuscon Arts Council; Cora Mirikitani, CEO of the Center for Cultural Innovation; and Nancy Trovillion, Deputy Director of the North Carolina Arts Council.

Drawing on years of experience delivering professional development programs designed to build artists’ professional practices, the panelists engaged in a lively discussion about what we have learned about artists’ needs, and what curricula and teaching methods have been most (and least) successful. Continue reading →