How do adult working artists design their practices and lives, and what do they wish they knew when they were embarking on that journey? In this interactive presentation an examination of the personal, professional, and financial choices of artists in contemporary American society will be followed by an exploration of what mid-career artists would tell their past undergraduate counterparts knowing what they know today.

Appropriate for art students, art faculty, and practicing artists of all disciplines, this presentation can be configured for 60-, 75-, and 90-minute time periods.

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.

Intended as a keynote for general audiences, artists, faculty, and students, this presentation can be configured for 60-, 75-, and 90-minute time periods.

Adding artist entrepreneurship to the undergraduate collegiate curriculum can be a challenge for any art faculty. Faculty buy-in, limited course space in degree programs, and lack of resources top (but don’t end) the list of barriers. Yet providing access to the tools and skills of artist entrepreneurship is key to successful artist development. Explore the tools and strategies art faculty use in their current classes to give undergraduate arts students the ability to create balanced and thriving lives that include enduring arts practices in this faculty workshop.

Appropriate for art faculty (of any discipline) this workshop can range from a 75-minute interactive presentation to a full-day faculty tool-development and curricular exploration.

In a world of perpetually changing communication, distribution, and technology, artists face innumerable and rapidly altering challenges to creating enduring artistic practices. A strategic management framework gives a lasting foundation and holistic understanding of the broader system of the artist in the arts economy, while simultaneously helping artists identify contemporary tools and tactics to implement in service of their self-determined ideals of artistic success in their individual creative practices.

Appropriate for art students, art faculty, and practicing artists of all disciplines, this workshop can range from a 75-minute interactive presentation to a half-day hands-on artist workshop.