Broward Cultural Division’s award-winning series for artists is back with all-new workshops. On Saturdays at 10:30AM, learn from industry professionals how to turn your creativity into a successful business in Business Skills for Creatives 2.0.
Placemaking is a creative means to planning, designing and reimagining public spaces shared by people and their communities. As the world emerges post-pandemic, how do recent events shape how we view our neighborhood and public spaces? What role can artists have in creative placemaking?
In this session, Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson and Jason Schupbach, contributing authors and section editors of the recent publication The Routledge Handbook of Placemaking, will discuss how creative placemaking can:
Advance registration is requested as course materials may be provided prior to the session. You can RSVP here: http://bit.ly/BizSkillsSession3
About the speakers:
About Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson:
Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson is an expert in comprehensive community revitalization, urban poverty, systems change, dynamics of race and ethnicity and roles and culture in communities. She is an Institute Professor in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts and the Watts College of Public Service and Community solutions at Arizona State University where she leads the Studio for Creativity, Place and Equitable Communities. She is the Senior Advisor for Arts and Culture at the Kresge Foundation and consults with national and regional foundations and government agencies on strategic planning and research. In 2012, she was appointed by President Obama to the National Council on the Arts. She is on the advisory board of the Lambent Foundation and on the boards of directors of the Alliance for California Traditional Arts and LA Commons. Previously, she was a senior research associate at the Urban Institute in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center and founding director of UI’s Culture, Creativity and Communities Program.
About Jason Schupbach:
Jason Schupbach is the Dean of the Westphal College of Media Arts and Design at Drexel University and a nationally recognized expert in the role that arts and design play in improving communities. He was the federal liaison to the design community in his role as Director of Design and Creative Placemaking Programs for the National Endowment for the Arts.
Business Skills for Creatives 2.0 is the follow-up to Broward Cultural Division’s Business Skills for the Modern Creator, developed in the summer of 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Attendance to all sessions is not required, and there is no prerequisite for each session. However, each lesson is unique and valuable to artists in all fields, and we recommend that you watch all the courses provided last year for your benefit. You can view the full series here:
http://bit.ly/BizSkillsReview
This summer, the Courses will stream live on @BrowardArts Facebook and @BrowardArts YouTube on the following Saturdays from 10:30AM – noon.
July 10: Applying for Grant Funding as an Artist
July 17: Financial Strategies Post-Pandemic
July 24: Creative Placemaking for Stronger Communities
July 31: The Art of Negotiation
Learn more about Business Skills for Creatives at ArtsCalendar.com/BizSkills
2021/07/24 - 2021/07/24
Online/Virtual Space