Workshop
September 20, 2006, 6:30pm
Making Positive Changes! How to Set and Achieve Your Goals as an Artist.
Speakers: Melissa Potter, Career Development Associate, College Art Association and Artist, and Susan Koblin Schear, President, ARTISIN, LLC.
Calling All Artists!
We are pleased to offer the following talks! As places are limited, please sign up in advance online at www.artistsspace.org.
Melissa Potter is an exhibiting artist and has been the recipient of grants including the Artist in the Marketplace program at the Bronx Museum, ArtsLink, and the Trust for Mutual Understanding. Most recently, she was the recipient of a Fulbright Traditional Scholars Fellowship, through which she taught the art of hand papermaking at the University of Belgrade during Spring 2006. With more than ten years of experience working in arts not for profits (including New York Foundation for the Arts, UrbanGlass, and Dieu Donne Papermill), she is currently Career Development Associate at the College Art Association.
Susan Koblin Schear is a consultant, speaker, educator and leader, and founded her company ARTISIN, LLC in 1995 to offer comprehensive business development and management services for the arts and culture. ARTISIN projects have included a Cultural Tourism Marketing Blueprint for the Borough of Queens, a Business Planning Outline for a three-organization collaboration (Jamaica Center forArts & Learning, Cultural Collaborative Jamaica andBlack Spectrum Theatre), and conducting Focus Groups and a Visioning Session for the Advisory Council of Tilles Center, Long Island University, among others. Ms. Schear is a consultant for the Individual Artist’s Initiative at the Queens Council on the Arts as well as a workshop leader for Creative Capital’s Professional Development Program.