Springboard for the Arts Calendar of Events
Upcoming Offerings
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Define your product, discover your target audience, make decisions about how you sell your work, and identify a budget and strategy for your artistic business. Presented in partnership with Hennepin County Library.
Springboard is throwing a party to celebrate our Saint Paul anniversary and you’re invited!
Discover analytical and tool-based approaches to manage your time. These tools will help you tackle hurdles related to efficiency, flexibility, and structure to help you reach your artistic goals.
The free Art-Train Individual Artist Training is for artists who are interested in building on their existing skills to collaborate in and with their communities through their local agencies, non-profits, and arts councils. Artists will deepen practices around creative problem solving, equitable community engagement, and creating arts-based strategies to address recovery, rebuilding and ongoing community and economic development.
Get a hands-on, step-by-step approach to writing a range of statements that best represent your work as an artist.
Craft persuasive messaging and create a strategy for how you will get the word out about your work, events, and news. Presented in partnership with Hennepin County Library.
Your portfolio is the core of your promotional material and professional calling card. Focus on the essential elements: sharpening your artist statement, tailoring your artistic resume, and curating and formatting your work samples.
This workshop will outline the basics of bringing your manuscript through the whole publishing process, from writing and editing to exploring options for publication and marketing, geared towards genre fiction writers.
This analytical approach isn’t intended to be the only way to price your work. It’s intended to show you the factors of product production that apply to everything in the marketplace. Once you understand what each of the variables are you’ll be able to customize a formula that fits your business model. Presented in partnership with Hennepin County Library.
Join Anna Chambers-Goldberg (Fox Realty) and El Karnwie-Tuah (Minnesota Housing) for a casual conversation for artists considering buying a home, whether for the first time or next time.
This analytical approach isn’t intended to be the only way to price your work. It’s intended to show you the factors of product production that apply to everything in the marketplace. Once you understand what each of the variables are you’ll be able to customize a formula that fits your business model.
The Agency/Organization Training is for staff at government agencies, tribal councils, community non-profits and arts councils to develop strategies to reach and engage more people, increase community relevance and connection, and find innovative ways to be more effective – and create authentic, equitable and lasting change.
Learn about user-friendly website organization and design, how to maximize your online presence, and get real-time feedback on an existing website.
Learn how to track revenues and expenses, make informed projections, and gain a clearer understanding of your artistic business finances. Presented in partnership with Hennepin County Library.
Learn how to track revenues and expenses, make informed projections, and gain a clearer understanding of your artistic business finances.
Obtain general information about your intellectual property, contract basics and structuring your artistic business. Presented in partnership with Hennepin County Library.
Where do you want to be both artistically and professionally? Learn how to define your values, identify key choices and develop a plan to achieve your career goals.
Learn the essentials of grant writing along with resources for searching and structuring your grants. This workshop will be held in person at the Center for Performing Arts.
Learn how to think creatively about diversifying your funding streams by exploring traditional and new models for generating value, resources, and revenue. Presented in partnership with Hennepin County Library.
Define your product, discover your target audience, make decisions about how you sell your work, and identify a budget and strategy for your artistic business.
Craft persuasive messaging and create a strategy for how you will get the word out about your work, events, and news.
The free Art-Train Individual Artist Training is for artists who are interested in building on their existing skills to collaborate in and with their communities through their local agencies, non-profits, and arts councils. Artists will deepen practices around creative problem solving, equitable community engagement, and creating arts-based strategies to address recovery, rebuilding and ongoing community and economic development.
Learn about navigating the funding landscape and hear from members of the arts community, experienced both in granting organizations and as independent artists.
Learn the essentials of grant writing along with resources for searching and structuring your grants. Presented in partnership with Hennepin County Library.
Obtain general information about your intellectual property, contract basics and structuring your artistic business.
Learn how to think creatively about diversifying your funding streams by exploring different models for generating value, resources, and revenue.
The Agency/Organization Training is for staff at government agencies, tribal councils, community non-profits and arts councils to develop strategies to reach and engage more people, increase community relevance and connection, and find innovative ways to be more effective – and create authentic, equitable and lasting change.
Join us for a panel that will take a look at the grant writing process and discuss how artists who are BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) and Native can successfully navigate the application process.
Learn how to prepare a simple business plan, in arts-friendly language, to help you organize all the various aspects of your artistic practice and make informed business decisions. Presented in partnership with Hennepin County Library.
Learn the essentials of grant writing along with resources for searching and structuring your grants.
Learn tools and techniques to communicate the value of your work to potential customers. Presented in partnership with Hennepin County Library.
Learn how to prepare a simple business plan, in arts-friendly language, to help you organize all the various aspects of your artistic practice and make informed business decisions.
An attorney from Springboard’s Minnesota Lawyers for the Arts (MnLA) program will cover business models from LLC’s to 501(c)3’s, including information on how to prepare, and benefits and risks.
Learn tools and techniques to communicate the value of your work to potential customers.