What emerges when the boundaries between performance and visual art are blurred, touch, or intersect? And what does it mean for museums and cultural organizations to nurture these explorations and their creators? This moderated panel discussion brings together artists, curators, and cultural workers whose practices embody this dynamic fluidity as it has emerged within Chicago’s artistic community. Through dialogue, the program aims to raise and address questions around how institutions and the broader arts ecosystem can rise to meet the unique needs and challenges that inter- and multidisciplinary artists face.

Artadia, the Driehaus Museum, and Luminarts Cultural Foundation are excited to hold this panel discussion with cofounders of Every house has a door, Matthew Goulish and Lin Hixson; Stephanie Cristello, Independent Curator; and Karsten Lund, Senior Curator, The Renaissance Society. The panel is moderated by janera solomon, Artist and Founder, ARTPOWER.

“Nurturing the Intersection: Supporting Interdisciplinary Practices in Chicago” will take place on October 9th, from 5:30–7:00pm at the Driehaus Museum in Chicago, located at 50 E Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611.

Against the backdrop of a booming real estate market and the consequent precarity of viable workspaces for artists, Boston faces a challenge shared by similar urban hubs: How do we ensure artists remain in Boston? This panel discussion brings together civic leaders, advocates, and community members to share individual perspectives, initiatives, and ways for charting a path forward in addressing affordability and, by extension, sustainability.

Artadia and Boston Center for the Arts are excited to hold this panel discussion with Yng-Ru Chen, Founder and CEO, Praise Shadows Gallery; Kara Elliott-Ortega, Chief of Arts and Culture, The City of Boston; Emily Ruddock, Executive Director, MASSCreative; Napoleon Jones-Henderson, 2022 Boston Artadia Awardee; and Alison Croney Moses, 2023 Boston Liberty Mutual Artadia Awardee. We are grateful to the Wagner Foundation for being the lead sponsor for this event.

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Artadia and Project for Empty Space are excited to present a moderated Q&A session for artists and cultural workers to engage directly with leading curators. This event is a fantastic opportunity to ask any pressing questions about the curatorial process, career paths, and the nuances of art curation. Our panelists are Alyssa Alexander, Independent Curator and PES Feminist Futures Fellow; Jackson Davidow, Independent Curator, Scholar, and John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Curatorial Fellow in Photography at the Harvard Art Museums; and Stamatina Gregory, Head Curator and Director of Collections and Exhibitions, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.

Atlanta’s profile in the arts landscape has seen a steady resurgence in recent years, thanks to a number of initiatives bringing attention to its wealth and history of talent. There has arisen a dire need for a viable infrastructure to meet its expansion, one that speaks explicitly to its commitment to artists based in Atlanta.

In bringing together a group of Atlanta-based artists, advisors, and arts administrators, this candid conversation seeks to define a regional ecosystem that evades a straightforward narrative. How can and will Atlanta remain a thriving hub for artists? What kinds of structures of support can and should exist for the greater arts community of Atlanta? And in looking forward, how can artists, curators, galleries, and institutions work towards a collective sustainability? This panel discussion is with Courtney Bombeck, Art Advisor and Founder of CO-OP Art Atlanta, Jacob O’Kelley, Artistic Director of Swan Coach House Gallery, and Sheila Pree Bright, Artist and 2021 Atlanta Artadia Awardee.

The health insurance system in the US can seem overwhelming, especially when you’re freelance or self-employed. Renata Marinaro, Managing Director of Health Services for the Entertainment Community Fund (formerly the Actors Fund), explains what you need to know to approach this for-profit system as an educated, savvy consumer. She’ll outline your rights as a consumer and offer an overview of all your insurance options – from public programs to private insurance. This interactive webinar is designed to help you cut through insurance propaganda and consumer myths to find a plan that’s right for you. You’ll find out if you’re eligible for free or low-cost insurance, how to get significant discounts on prescription drugs, and what to do if you’re uninsured or underinsured. Please note that this presentation focuses on options for those under 65 years old.

After years of studying financial planning, the racial wealth divide, and interpersonal neurobiology, Pam Capalad and Dyalekt of Get Shameless know a lot about budgets. The big secret to budgets is that these stoic spreadsheets are actually at the mercy of our emotions. Money is inherently emotional, and understanding our relationship with money is key to taking control. In this webinar we’ll learn the how and why of building a budget you can believe in. Spend money on the things that you value. Save to feel secure. Bring your own spreadsheets if you got ‘em, or just come as you are. There are no bad questions. You are not the worst case we’ve ever seen. No, it’s not too late for you to start.

This introductory-level workshop offers a guide to the basics of proposal writing and will provide you with a solid road map to begin the grant writing process. This one-hour workshop, led by Yona Backer, is open to artists working across all disciplines who have a project in development.

The goal is to gain an understanding of how to incorporate proposal writing into your practice and to think strategically about fundraising for your projects moving forward.

Artists are as inventive in creating a studio space as the work they produce. From the kitchen table to bodega store fronts, warehouses, knitting factories, and Manhattan high rises, Robin Crookall and Lauren Klenow discuss the artist studios they’ve worked in and how they established their own sculpture and photography studios in New York City. Learn the basics of setting up a studio, tracking inventory, and creating a successful working space to benefit your practice.

Commission projects can often feel daunting. Join curators Mallory Ruymann and Leah Triplett Harrington for a helpful overview of the commission process. Drawing from Leah’s experience in mounting commissions in the non-profit, public sphere and Mallory’s background in the private space of individual and corporate collection building, this workshop is aimed to empower artists to successfully approach commissions in the conceptual, budgeting, and production phases. Incorporating real-life case studies pulled from their respective practices, Mallory and Leah will share best practices and learnings related to the creative process, project management, legal, and financial aspects of a commission project.

Artadia partnered with PNC Bank to present a workshop to help artists better understand themselves as business entities. PNC covered the various organizational types and what to consider when determining which type may be best suited for you. As ‘owners’, it’s important to know how to protect you and your business and create future success when planning your business structure.

Janean Germany, Business Relationship Manager and a SBA Loan Specialist for PNC lead us through this conversation.

The archive is critical to an artist’s career on many levels, not only as a way to organize the studio, but more importantly as a way to understand historical information so that artists can make informed choices about their future. Depending on the project, business, or organization, artists have different needs when it comes to an archive or inventory database. In this third installment, we discussed in depth what is needed to build and maintain an archive of one’s work.

Artists have more freedom and flexibility to generate income but more complex decisions to make. Whether selling work independently or with the help of a representative or gallery, the following components are crucial to consider: Money, Context, and Exposure.

For those who are pursuing gallery representation, we addressed factors such as reputation, experience, connections, programming and curatorial perspective, funding, location, team, communication, and relationship with the owner.

We also delved into alternatives which include online sales, branding, independent projects and collaborations with other industries.

The first of three in the Artsmart x Artadia Artist Business Plan Series covered budgets—which are necessary tools for an artist’s practice: project planning, grantwriting, cash flow management and business plan development. Smart budgeting can help strike a balance between dreams and reality. We dove into why budgets are necessary, how to create them, and how to stick to them.

This virtual conversation between poet and art critic John Yau and sculptor Jillian Conrad (2012 Houston Artadia Awardee) took its cue from acts of cross-disciplinary collaboration often engaged by artists as a generative process and practice.

Best known in the art world for his reviews in Hyperallergic and the Brooklyn Rail (2007-2011), John is also a poet, fiction writer and publisher. Jillian will talk with him about his latest collection of poems, Genghis Chan on Drums (2021), his work as the founder of Black Square Editions and how these overlapping practices run mostly but not necessarily parallel in his life as a writer.

Jillian is a sculptor who is currently traveling in west Texas and southern France, developing a book-length essay on how caves and the art found in them are portals that connect to contemporary art practices.

Artists often struggle with access to resources and support needed to help them create, organize and grow a financially thriving practice. Too few resources exist that are specifically designed for artists to help them navigate through every aspect of starting and successfully operating a small business.

The workshop moved methodically and intelligently through a planning lifecycle navigating from creation to collection, from conception to consumption, and through every business aspect along the way.

This virtual event centered around the theme of artist-led initiatives and featured the artists Alejandro Cesarco, Taylor Le Melle, and Marcel Pardo Ariza. While each of these artists maintains an active artistic practice of their own, they also manage other art initiatives that serve to create space, resources, and discourse outside of institutional channels.

A.rt R.esources T.ransfer (A.R.T.), run by Cesarco, is a nonprofit organization based in New York committed to documenting and disseminating artists’ voices and work through the publication and distribution of books, education, and spaces of reading. Not/Nowhere, run by La Melle, is a cooperative in London that programmes workshops, screenings, exhibitions, and offers training for Black and POC artists to use film and media equipment. The Art Handlxrs* is a San Francisco-based platform co-founded by Pardo Ariza dedicated to supporting BIPOC, queer, non-binary, trans people, and women in the professional arts industry as preparators, art handlxrs, technicians, and fabricators. The conversation is co-organized and moderated by curator Juana Berrío.

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This workshop with Shama Rahman helps artists explore how to clearly communicate who they are as creative individuals, and the kind of work they produce, to a broad range of audiences. Artists will learn the components of creating effective personal narratives, tangible tips for keeping their statements updated on a regular basis, modifying statements for different platforms and more. Learnings from this workshop can apply to improving applications for grants, fellowships, and residencies; websites; press releases; marketing materials and more.

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In this Artadia Public Network Workshop, Courtney Childress and Peter Gynd unpack one of the more opaque tasks an artist must face. Whether it’s creating a budget for your studio practice or an estimated budget that’s required for a grant application, having a solid understanding of your expenses, spending and income is crucial to your success. Courtney Childress and Peter Gynd — who are both artists with active studio practices as well as curators and gallerists — share practical advice on how to create budgets that support your artistic practice and help open doors to new opportunities.

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Audra Lambert and Heather Zises from Ninth Street Collective hold a candid conversation about preparing for the a studio visit (both virtually and in-person), hosting the visit and following up post-visit. As curators and art critics, they have visited 100s of artist studios and will share the dos and don’ts of navigating in-person and virtual visits.

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Panel discussion with industry experts and artists on NFTs to share key insights and understandings geared to artists and like-minded creatives. Panelists include Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle, Global Director of Online Sales and Head of Pace Verso, Amir H. Fallah, Artist and 2020 Los Angeles Artadia Awardee, Sarah Friend, Artist and Software Developer, Christopher Y. Lew, Chief Artistic Director of Horizon Art Foundation and Outland Art, and Nato Thompson, Co-Founder Artwrld, Founder and Director The Alternative Art School.

This workshop was led by Cultural Counsel’s Vice President Marcella Zimmermann on social media strategies for artists. This private workshop allowed participants to cultivate effective ‘best practices’ around communications, social media and online presence — focusing specifically on Instagram.

This private Network workshop convened three renowned art dealers—Kibum Kim of Commonwealth and Council, Friedrich Petzel of Petzel Gallery, and Nicole Russo of Chapter NY Gallery–to hold a roundtable-style conversation around navigating gallery relationships, what it means to be represented, and the role that galleries can play in the sustainability of an artist’s career.

This is a Private Workshop for Artadia Awardees. For RSVP information please email info@artadia.org

Financial Wellness Seminar for Artists will be an overview of best practices for optimizing your financial life including budgeting, savings strategies, estate planning, investment planning, and risk management. This event will be live closed captioned,  if any accessibility accommodations are needed please email info@artadia.org.

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Kristen Becker and Corrina Peipon are both independent arts strategists with over 20 years of experience in artists’ studios, museums, and commercial galleries. They met virtually on April 8 to share their insider knowledge on how artists can best approach relationships with curators and gallery owners.

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Artist and 2020 Houston Artadia Awardee Bria Lauren and Rebecca Matalon, Curator, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, discussed Lauren’s work in photography and film, the ongoing importance of Houston’s Third Ward on her practice, and the value and urgency of honoring her local community of Black women, artists, and collaborators.