Use your creative skills to address community issues and opportunities! Whether you are an artist who already works in community or who wants to start, this workshop will introduce you to methods to clarify your own goals, techniques to ensure successful outcomes for you and your community collaborators, and how to reach out to community organizations and businesses to expand your artistic practice and income sources.
This workshop will use resources from Springboard’s A Handbook for Artists Working in Community. Get the Handbook as a free download or buy a copy of the book.
This workshop is part of a series of virtual workshops being presented in partnership with Hennepin County Library and is a part of Work of Art+, workshops that complement the 12-part Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists series, a professional development curriculum designed to teach business skills to artists in all disciplines. The curriculum is always available for free download, or you can buy a copy of the book to support your practice.
Instructor: Ricardo Beaird (any pronoun)
Bio: Ricardo Beaird leads the Community Development program at Springboard for the Arts, where they guide strategy, programmatic goals, and implementation to create pathways for artists to address community needs and foster cross-sector collaborations. Ricardo also leads cohorts of artists in creating work that strengthens communities, focusing on dispelling harmful narratives, bridging people, combating social isolation, and inspiring new ways of thinking.
With a decade of experience in collective visioning, workshop facilitation, and community organizing, Ricardo speaks nationally on the power of artists in social, environmental, and economic movements. Their theater background informs their approach, bridging artistic practice with community impact. Ricardo holds a BA in Speech and Theatre from Middle Tennessee State University.
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