Session — Trust Artists: Moving from Words to Actions

The world is facing a multitude of challenges including rapid climate change, the rise of artificial intelligence, and increasing polarization. If we look back at the history of humanity, it’s always been artists who have brought us to an understanding of ourselves. We must trust artists to understand our future world, and yet the stereotype of artists would paint them as unreliable. Recent evidence from the pandemic shows that artists are more than worthy of our trust. Knowing the needs facing our turbulent world, how can artists thwart the stereotype and trust themselves?

Session — Artist Entrepreneurship for Life: Strategic Management for Artists

In a world of perpetually changing communication, distribution, and technology, today’s artists face innumerable and rapidly altering challenges to creating enduring artistic practices. An innovative curriculum focusing on a strategic management framework gives arts students a lasting and flexible foundation in approaching the business aspects of their creative practices, while simultaneously helping them identify contemporary tools and tactics to implement in service of their self-determined ideals of artistic success. Combining her extensive experience as a professor and an artist professional development practitioner working with artists in the field, Scott explores the art entrepreneurship pedagogies art faculty employ with their students.

Session — Artist Entrepreneurship for Life: Strategic Management for Artists

In a world of perpetually changing communication, distribution, and technology, today’s artists face innumerable challenges. Using a strategic management framework gives a lasting and flexible foundation for approaching business aspects of a creative practice, while simultaneously helping identify contemporary tools and tactics to implement in service of self-determined ideals of artistic success.