Arts educator, author, artist, and consultant Eric Booth will speak to the Arts Enterprise course by Skype to help launch this year’s curriculum in style. Eric has been working worldwide to connect artistic effort with entrepreneurial thinking, and to connect artists in multiple ways to their communities — as creative voices, as business people, as teachers, and as civic leaders. Read more
Arts entrepreneur and venture capitalist Toni Sikes will be a featured speaker during the first gathering of the “Arts Enterprise” class for Spring 2012. Sikes he was the founder and CEO of Guild.com, a pioneer e-commerce and catalog company, as a way of bringing artists’ work directly to consumers; today, it operates under the consumer brand of Artful Home.
Submissions due: April 10, 2012
Finalists announced: April 13, 2011
Finals: April 20, 2011, 2:30-3:30 pm
The UW–Madison New Arts Venture Challenge is a campus-wide competition to encourage new thinking and innovative ideas. Entrants will develop and present a thorough proposal that will result in an arts event, exhibition, series or project. Read more
We’re thrilled to announce the Spring 2012 availability of “Arts Enterprise: Art as Business as Art,” a three-credit, full-semester course for students interested in developing, launching, or advancing innovative enterprises in arts, culture, and design.
If you are making art we want to know you!
Arts Enterprise is a series of activities that teach the strategic skills today’s artists need to take leadership in the creative economy.
Arts Enterprise will empower artists of all ages and disciplines to fuel and inspire the culture of our community, the State of Wisconsin, and beyond.
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We had a fabulous visit and series of conversations with Douglas McLennan this week, the founder and editor of ArtsJournal.com, and the director of the National Arts Journalism Program. His public talk at Overture will eventually be available on-line in video form. But in the meanwhile, we’ve posted our 26-minute podcast conversation with him that touched on some of the issues/ideas/insights he shared while in town.
As ever, you can find the audio through the embedded player below, or the Internet Archive, or our course page on iTunesU. Enjoy!
Our last two class sessions will feature student project presentations, sharing the initiatives, activities, organizations, or enterprises you’ve all dreamed up. Please be sure you review the requirements for these presentations (below). And let’s be sure to start on time, since time will be very tight. Looking forward to seeing what you’ve all come up with! Read more
Today’s class included an on-line video interview with Derek Sivers, founder of the CD Baby indie music distribution company, and arts entrepreneur. Sivers was in his office in Midtown Manhattan, and connected with the class through iChat. The session included some comments and insights from Sivers, along with questions from the class. It was an experiment. Seemed to work pretty well.
