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Strategic Planning Workshop in New York City July 9th
Creative Capital’s Professional Development Program and New York Foundation for the Arts invite you to participate in a 3-hour workshop on Strategic Planning for Individual Artists. This workshop is open to artists of all media. There is limited space and the workshop will be filled on a first-come first-served basis.
Thursday, July 9, 6:00-9:00pm NYFA offices (20 Jay Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn) Workshop fee: $65.00
To attend this workshop, please register before July 2, 5:00pm.
This introductory workshop, based on Creative Capital's acclaimed weekend Professional Development workshop model, employs an integrated approach to Strategic Planning, covering topics such as time management, business management, communications and negotiation. The workshop aims to help artists break the crisis management cycle and increase their satisfaction in their art practice and career. In addition to lecture presentations, attendees participate in interactive exercises and are given a Strategic Planning workbook to help guide their process. The workshop will be led by Creative Capital strategic planning consultant Colleen Keegan along with painter and Creative Capital grantee Jeffrey Gibson.
Workshop leaders:
Colleen Keegan developed the strategic planning program at Creative Capital, which to date has provided personal strategic planning coaching to over 400 Creative Capital grantees as well as offered strategic planning workshops to over 2000 artists across the country. She is a partner in Keegan Fowler Companies, an equity investment and consulting firm specialized in providing strategic planning and business affairs services for companies in the communications and entertainment industries. Previously, Keegan was a principal in The Strategic Planning Partnership. Her client list includes American Express, Bandai, Citi Group, ESPN, FM Japan, Hanna-Barbera, Paramount Pictures, Sprint, Sony New Technologies and Sony Pictures Entertainment. Keegan served as the president of Pacific Arts Video Production and Washington Video Services prior to establishing Keegan Fowler Companies. She has also worked as a producer for MTV Networks, WETA and Showtime. Keegan developed the Strategic Planning Program at Creative Capital where she currently serves as Co-Chair of the Endowment Committee. She has served on numerous Boards of Directors including the American Refugee Committee, the MS Foundation, Texas Film Commission, Emily's List, the NOW Legal Defense Fund and Senator Dianne Feinstein's Advisory Council.
Jeffrey Gibson is a painter and installation artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. His artworks have been shown nationally and internationally at museums, galleries, and at art fairs. During the past year his paintings and sculptures were included in exhibitions at The National Museum of the American Indian and The Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum in 2007 and at The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in 2006. He is a 2005 recipient of a visual arts grant from the Creative Capital Foundation and recently completed a residency at The Art Omi International Artist Residency. His work has been reviewed in various publications, including The New York Times, ArtNews, The Boston Globe, NY Arts Magazine, and has been featured on Bloomberg Television, NY One, and New Jersey Network TV. Upcoming exhibitions include solo exhibition at Dust Gallery in Las Vegas and at Sala Diaz in San Antonio, and group exhibitions at The Institute of American Indian Arts, The Minneapolis Institute of Art and Design, Flushing Town Hall, and a project for the Circa Art Fair in Puerto Rico. In addition to working as an artist, Jeffrey consults and develops arts education programs for underserved communities and incarcerated youth with The Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation in New York.
For more information email Krista Fabian DeCastro, PDP Workshop Manager of Creative Capital.
