Creative Capital Professional Development Program is a free professional development opportunity for Central New Jersey artists blended learning program: Strategic Planning & Funding Your Work. This multi-format, four-month program in financial and business management will help artists establish a secure base upon which to create and grow their work.
The Creative Capital Professional Development Program (PDP)’s Blended Learning Program is an integrated four-month program running from March – July 2017 that combines a one-day Strategic Planning & Fundraising in-person workshop, three live webinars, a series of online courses, artist working groups and small group phone consultations. Artworks is proud to be a partner for the second year in this innovative artists-teaching-artists professional development program specially designed for New Jersey artists. This program is made possible by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.
The initial day-long in-person workshop will be held on March 18, 2017 at the SJCA in Hammonton and on March 19, 2017 at Gallery Aferro in Newark (Central New Jersey artists selected by Artworks will be split between these two locations and dates) with a final convening workshop for all participants held on July 15, 2017 at Artworks in Trenton. 20 Trenton-area artists will be accepted into the program by Artworks, along with 20 artists from Northern New Jersey and 20 artists from Southern New Jersey. Professional artists of all disciplines are eligible to participate in the program, artists should be generative, not interpretive (for example, the composer over the violinist, the playwright over the actor). Artists can be from more than one discipline. They are committed to diversity in all it’s multiple forms, with artists of color and/or those who identify as LGBTQIA+ especially encouraged to apply.
Applications are due no later than February 21, 2017.
Applicant must be available March 18, 2017 for the full day Strategic Planning and Funding Workshop at South Jersey Cultural Alliance, Kramer Hall, 30 Front Street, Hammonton, NJ 08037 or March 19th, 2017 at Gallery Aferro, 73 Market St, Newark, NJ 07102 and July 15, 2017 for the final convening at ArtWorks Trenton, 19 Everett Alley, Trenton, NJ 08611.
