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Artist INC is a collaborative partnership of the Charlotte Street Foundation, the
Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City, and the UMKC Innovation Center.
Originally launched in 2007 as KCArtistLink, Artist INC connects Kansas City artists
of all disciplines to the tools, resources, and opportunities necessary to develop
their entrepreneurial skills and strengthen their artistic practice.
Artist INC workshops
Artist INC workshops take the mystery and fear out of the business end of a fine
arts practice. Through the use of fine arts specific content, peer-to-peer learning
and artist mentoring, participating artists get the arts-specific techniques they can
immediately use and the chance to practice and apply them with the support and
guidance of other artists working through the same challenges. Developed for
artists of all disciplines, visual artists, musicians, film makers, dancers, performers
and writers come together for intensive work on the components of a viable and
sustainable arts practice.
The successful traditional Artist INC workshop launched in 2009, has been
completed by over 200 fine artists in the Kansas City area. The Artist INC Online
workshop was introduced in 2011 to meet the needs of those artists unable to
attend the traditional workshop due to constraints of geography or schedule. And
the Artist INC II program started in 2012—an eight-week intensive bootcamp for
traditional program alumni to each take a current project and work the business
aspects of it from every angle.
Artist INC. is made possible through a grant from Leveraging Investments in
Creativity (LINC), the innovative collaboration of Kansas City’s arts service
organizations, and generous support from the Kansas City creative community and
arts supporters, including the Muriel McBrien Kauffman Foundation; Francis
Family Foundation; Steve and Karen Pack Family Foundation; American Century
Investments; Hallmark Cards; the Missouri Arts Council; and the David T. Beals III
Charitable Trust, Bank of America, Trustee. Artist INC also receives program
support and guidance from the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance, the
Kansas City Art Institute, the University of Missouri Extension, and numerous local
area artists involved in the community planning process.
Artist INC programs include the
original Artist INC Live eight-week
seminar that focuses on
professional development and
business training for emerging and
mid-career artists; two speakers’
series that connect artists with
national and local experts in arts
entrepreneurship; the Artist INC
website where artists can find the
resources they need to shape their
careers and grow their businesses;
and the newly launched Artist INC
Online, a web version of the live
training seminar that significantly
broadens geographic access to this
groundbreaking program. In 2012,
the program launched Artist INC II,
an advanced project-based
seminar available to all Artist INC
Live alumni.
Participating artists get:
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tools and skills in arts
planning, marketing, finance,
law, and technology;
an increased knowledge of
and ability to access local and
national art business
resources;
a strategic artist's plan for
pursuing, marketing and
sustaining their art; and
a long-term network of crossdiscipline, diverse artists to
provide peer learning and
support into the future
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