Creative Capital Professional Development Workshop for
Western North Carolina Artists

October 1 - 3, 2010

Penland School of Crafts will host a professional development workshop for artists living in Western North Carolina, taught by the nonprofit group Creative Capital, on October 1-3, 2010. This is an exciting opportunity for artists of all sorts who would like to earn their living from their art or would like to take their art-based career to a new level of professionalism.

The weekend workshop is an intensive two-and-a-half-day crash course in self-management, strategic planning, fundraising, and promotion, including lectures, peer critiques, one-on-one consultations, interactive exercises, and written assignments. Participants will be given a workbook as well as handouts with practical how-to information, and they will meet with leaders in small groups. The workshop is open to artists living in the following Western North Carolina counties; Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, and Yancey.

Based in Washington, DC, Creative Capital has offered this highly-regarded workshop around the country. A recent participant described the experience this way: “I expected it to be helpful, but actually it was life-changing and a complete paradigm shift—especially around seeing that being successful and happy as a working artist is totally possible and that there are specific steps and strategies for getting there.”

Tuition is $50. Meals and housing are available for an additional fee (see application form), but participants are not required to stay on campus or to eat at the Penland dining hall.

Participants must attend the entire workshop. The workshop times are as follows: Friday 5:30 - 9:00 PM, Saturday 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM, Sunday 8:30 - 5:00 PM. Please do not sign up for the workshop if you cannot attend it in its entirety.

Application form (PDF)

Applications are due at Penland by Monday, August 16.

Your application must also include a resume, three printed images of your work*, and a letter describing why you would like to take the workshop and what you hope to gain by attending.

*Send images on a CD in JPG format. Image size must be at least 1000 pixels on the long dimension
(or 10 inches long at 100 dpi).

If you have questions about this workshop, contact Jennifer Sword, program assistant

programsasst@penland.org

Creative Capital is a national nonprofit organization that supports artists pursuing adventurous and imaginative work in the performing and visual arts, film/video, innovative literature, and emerging fields.

Creative Capital website

This workshop is made possible by an Economic Innovation Grant from the North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center.