Valerie Schumacher · Where art meets business

February 2nd, 2009

It’s not always easy being an artist entrepreneur, especially in today’s environment. To help the creative workforce turn passion into business, Community Partnership for Arts and Culture (CPAC) is offering artists the chance to attend this year’s only Artist as an Entrepreneur Institute (AEI) at a discount if they are members of one of the great arts and culture or artist service organizations in Northeast Ohio. The weekend course will be on March 13-15 from 9am-6pm in the Gallery at Trinity Commons in Cleveland.

To help artist learn if this is the right time to take advantage of this opportunity, CPAC is holding a free info session in the offices of COSE on Tuesday, February 17 at 1:30 pm. All are welcome.

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5 Responses to “Where art meets business”

  1. Ed Morrison Says:
    February 3rd, 2009 at 8:23 am

    Late last year, Anita Campbell wrote a column on the artist entrepreneur. You can read it here. I hope the COSE folks are connecting with Anita and her networks.

    Here’s another interesting blog post I picked up last year: Read more.

    Of course, all this plays into building a creative economy in Northeast Ohio. Starting in the UK in the late 1990’s, the strategy of developing creative economies in cities is most developed in Europe. If you are curious, read an excellent book by Charles Landry, Creative Cities. (Without telling anyone, Richard Florida was simply following a trend started by Landry and his colleagues at Comedia.)

    This strategy has, in my view, tremendous opportunity in Northeast Ohio, but it has yet to be embraced by the Those Who Must be Obeyed. (Apologies to Rumpole.)

  2. Ed Morrison Says:
    February 3rd, 2009 at 9:22 am

    Also, is anyone linking creative industries to innovation in Northeast Ohio?

    Check out this report, released in the UK last August:
    Hidden Innovation in the Creative Industries

    There appears to be a lot of relatively small, disconnected stuff happening in NEO in this arena. Much more is possible with more effective networks focused on a transformative agenda.

  3. Tom Hitchcock Says:
    February 3rd, 2009 at 11:37 am

    From what I can tell, the COSE Arts Network (www.cosearts.com) is three years old and has a few hundred members.

  4. J Anderle Says:
    February 3rd, 2009 at 1:21 pm

    So the discount to an Arts Entrepreneur program only goes to those who are a part of an existing service organization. Aren’t the people who could truly benefit from this program those not affiliated? This would seem to be one of the more important programs that CPAC organizes and the tobacco tax funds.

  5. Valerie Schumacher Says:
    February 4th, 2009 at 1:07 pm

    Thank you for all of these great comments. The discount offered is available all members at any level of any arts and culture organization. This a new offer so questions are warmly invited. CPAC is communicating with a variety of organizations about other programs and services in the area and will continue to do so. If anyone has any questions about the discount or would like to share any other information, please do not hesitate to email me directly at vls@cpacbiz.org.