national linc grant launches new programs for kc artists, including artist, inc. entrepreneurial seminars
Friday, February 27th, 2009Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC) has awarded a $100,000 challenge grant to a partnership of Kansas City arts and business support organizations to begin new professional development programs for artists in the greater Kansas City metropolitan area. The funding will be used to offer:
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Artist, INC, a series of in-depth entrepreneurial seminars that will reach more than 100 artists of all disciplines over the next two years, and
- KCArtistLink, which will enable all artists in the region to connect to a network of nonprofit resource organizations that can provide information about business-building and support programs.
The first offering of Artist, INC, an eight-week series of Monday night seminars for individual artists of all disciplines, will begin in May 2009 (application deadline: March 23). The program, developed through the UMKC Small Business and Technology Development Center (SBTDC), is designed to provide artists with small business skills to manage the business end of their art careers. For more information about Artist, INC., and to download an application, click here.
More more information about Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC) and Kansas City’s participation in its Creative Communities Program, click here.
