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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 →

PDP’s Core Weekend in Nashville

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Participant interviews from Arts & Business Council Core Weekend Workshop

As the Creative Capital presenters introduced themselves at our PDP Weekend Workshop last July, the staff of the Arts & Business Council was not sure exactly what to expect. It’s safe to say our participating artists felt the same way. We had heard lots of word-of-mouth about the PDP experience, but nothing could have fully prepared us for the life-change, renewed sense of community and rejuvenation brought about through one weekend in a drawing studio at a local university.

The Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville (ABC) hosted a Core Weekend Workshop in late July at Belmont University. As the PDP program fit squarely into ABC’s larger mission of improving sustainability for the arts, we jumped at our first opportunity to present a program of this scope and depth, knowing we didn’t have the resources in our community to do this level of training. At Creative Capital, we found extraordinary leaders who could speak to our artists on a peer-to-peer level. Continue reading →