Springboard for the Arts Calendar of Events

Learn the essentials of grant writing along with resources for searching and structuring your grants. Part of a series of twelve Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists workshops. Presented in partnership with Greater Fergus Falls.

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. Part of a series of twelve Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists workshops. Presented in partnership with MacRostie Art Center.

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. Part of a series of twelve Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists workshops. Presented in partnership with MacRostie Art Center.

Learn about practical and conceptual strategies to translate your art into a mobile tool that can be used to engage community and prompt interaction. 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. Part of a series of twelve Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists workshops. Presented in partnership with MacRostie Art Center.

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.

Technical assistance sessions are one-on-one meetings at the Vickie Benson Resource Lab with an artist-educator who will work with you on a hands-on professional project that can be completed (or started) in about an hour. The sessions are an hour-long, and offered free of charge to Minnesota artists.

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. Part of a series of twelve Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists workshops. Presented in partnership with Greater Fergus Falls.

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. Presented in partnership with Hennepin County Library.

Learn tools and techniques to communicate the value of your work to potential customers. Part of a series of twelve Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists workshops. Presented in partnership with Greater Fergus Falls.

An attorney from Springboard’s Minnesota Lawyers for the Arts (MnLA) program will cover legal basics for visual and performing artists. Presented in partnership with Hennepin County Library.

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. 

What is a trademark and how long does it last? Do you need to register? Get answers from an attorney from Springboard’s Minnesota Lawyers for the Arts (MnLA) program. 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.

A small percentage of chemicals are tested for human health and safety, and we too often reach for harsh chemicals to get our cleaning done. Learn about proper use and disposal of household chemicals, and how to mix up non-toxic cleaners with ingredients you already have in your pantry.

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. Part of a series of twelve Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists workshops. Presented in partnership with MacRostie Art Center.

Craft persuasive messaging and create a strategy for how you will get the word out about your work, events, and news. Part of a series of twelve Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists workshops. Presented in partnership with MacRostie Art Center.

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. Part of a series of twelve Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists workshops. Presented in partnership with MacRostie Art Center.

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.

Technical assistance sessions are one-on-one meetings at the Vickie Benson Resource Lab with an artist-educator who will work with you on a hands-on professional project that can be completed (or started) in about an hour. The sessions are an hour-long, and offered free of charge to Minnesota artists.

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.

Learn to creatively manage your own lawn to store rain water and be an oasis for our native pollinators — think: bees and butterflies! This class will teach you how to (and why!) design a rain garden to capture runoff, using native plants that our bees and butterflies seek out and depend on. In addition, we will each make our own bee watering station to take home!

Learn how to track revenues and expenses, make informed projections, and gain a clearer understanding of your artistic business finances. Part of a series of twelve Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists workshops. Presented in partnership with MacRostie Art Center.

Obtain general information about your intellectual property, contract basics and structuring your artistic business. Part of a series of twelve Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists workshops. Presented in partnership with MacRostie Art Center.

Learn how to think creatively about diversifying your funding streams by exploring traditional and new models for generating value, resources, and revenue. Part of a series of twelve Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists workshops. Presented in partnership with MacRostie Art Center.

Technical assistance sessions are one-on-one meetings at the Vickie Benson Resource Lab with an artist-educator who will work with you on a hands-on professional project that can be completed (or started) in about an hour. The sessions are an hour-long, and offered free of charge to Minnesota artists.

Learn the essentials of grant writing along with resources for searching and structuring your grants.

Connect to your highest self, your intuition, and your relationship with food and the soil in this interactive workshop with Emily Reno, founder of Mezclada, whose mission is to inspire and empower the next generation of land stewards through personal growth education, research, and storytelling. You’ll have the opportunity to create a planting plan for your garden or farm that aligns with your human design, your values, and your production goals. We’ll walk through some journal prompts, engage in some breathwork, and identify ways to bring a deeper sense of intention to your well-being and the natural spaces that you inhabit.

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.

Learn the essentials of grant writing along with resources for searching and structuring your grants. Part of a series of twelve Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists workshops. Presented in partnership with MacRostie Art Center.

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. Part of a series of twelve Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists workshops. Presented in partnership with MacRostie Art Center.

Learn tools and techniques to communicate the value of your work to potential customers. Part of a series of twelve Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists workshops. Presented in partnership with MacRostie Art Center.

Learn tools and techniques to communicate the value of your work to potential customers.