Press release from the Broward County Cultural Commission about upcoming educational seminars for artists. Highly recommended you take a look at this!

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Information Meetings on Application Process for Creative Capital Seminar
Thursday, May 5, 2011; 7:00 PM
Studio 18 Pembroke Pines
1101 Poinciana Drive
(located inside the Howard C. Forman Health Campus)
Pembroke Pines, FL. 33026
www.ppines.com/studio18
RSVP Here.

Broward County Cultural Division invites Broward-resident artists of all disciplines and creative endeavors to attend the next informational meeting on May 5, to learn about the application process for Creative Capital’s transformative seminar- Internet for Artists Weekend Workshop: Using the Internet to Build Community, Promote Your Work and Increase Administrative Effectiveness. Twenty-four Broward County artists, will be selected through a Call to Artist application process to attend the Creative Capital Seminar in November.

The Broward Cultural Division is one of nineteen national recipients of the 2011 Workshop Subsidy Grants from Creative Capital’s Professional Development Program (PDP) to present this seminar locally. To be considered, Broward artists will be submitting proposals to participate in the seminar by an online application. Participants will be chosen by a competitive review and panel selection process. The Division is delighted to be able to offer 24 Broward artists this one-time opportunity to train with Creative Capital’s faculty. These information sessions will prepare Broward’s performing and media artists, writers, musicians, dancers, and visual artists for this opportunity.

Coming Up:
Artists Weekend Workshop: Using the Internet to Build Community,
Promote Your Work and Increase Administrative Effectiveness
Internet for Artists Weekend Workshop: Using the Internet to Build Community, Promote Your Work and Increase Administrative Effectiveness, will be held November 4, 5 & 6, 2011 at Artserve, Inc. This interactive workshop will help participants expand their online presence and harness the power of internet tools such as social networking and media sharing sites, e-commerce, promotional websites, and blogs.

For more information, please call Adriane Clarke, grants specialist, 954-357-7530, aclarke@broward.org.

Creative Capital is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to providing integrated financial and advisory support to artists pursuing adventurous projects in five disciplines: Emerging Fields, Film/Video, Innovative Literature, and Performing and Visual Arts. Working in long-term partnership with artists, Creative Capital’s pioneering approach to support combines funding, counsel and career development services to enable a project’s success and foster a sustainable practice for its grantees. In its first decade, Creative Capital has committed more than $20 million in financial and advisory support to 325 projects representing 406 artists and has reached an additional 3,500 artists in more than 50 communities around the country through its Professional Development Program.

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For Immediate Release
Applying for Project Grant Funding for the Artist
Saturday, May 14, 2011 – 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Nova Southeastern University
3100 Ray Ferrero, Jr., Blvd.
Fort Lauderdale

Broward County Commission’s Cultural Division, Nova Southeastern University, and the South Florida Artists Association will host a unique training session to assist individual artists, working in all disciplines, with preparing effective proposals for “project-based” grant funding.

The workshop will be held at Room 4009 – Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center, Nova Southeastern University, 3100 Ray Ferrero, Jr., Blvd., in Fort Lauderdale, on Saturday, May 14, 2011, 9:00AM – 1:00PM.

Participants will learn how to: develop an artist’s biography and artist’s statement; Prepare an audience profile (identify the qualities and characteristics of audiences attracted by one’s art work and utilize the profile in the proposal process); Create a proposal description based on the project’s vision; Develop a project/proposal budget (w/case study to explore the budget development process); Preparing work samples. This workshop will help artists plan and prepare successful proposals for residencies, project funding, professional development, career advancement, and fellowship opportunities.

In addition, the session will prepare Broward artists who wish to learn how to prepare a submission to the Creative Capital professional development seminar: Internet for Artists Weekend Workshop: Using the Internet to Build Community, Promote Your Work and Increase Administrative Effectiveness and the Division’s Mini-Grant Program project grant for Broward artists. Broward artists will submit proposals to both opportunities by an online application and will be chosen by a competitive review and panel process.

The facilitator, Luz Rodriguez with Visionary Allies, is a seasoned fundraising professional, educator, and artist who combines her artistic sensitivities with her knowledge of U.S. philanthropy to guide and inspire artists of all genres to equip them with the information and tools they need to bring their project visions to reality. Her professional development workshops for artists have been offered nationally and internationally at Artist Space in New York and Centro Leon Cultural Center in the Dominican Republic. Ms. Rodriguez has more than 20 years of fundraising, coalition building and organizational development experience in advocacy and social justice movements. She has held staff and board leadership positions in community-based organizations in the fields of reproductive justice of women of color; youth development; hunger and homelessness. Her oral history and papers are included in the Voices of Feminism archival project at the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College. She is currently a bilingual training coordinator, at the Foundation Center, NYC, where she is responsible for designing and implementing fundraising training programs with a special focus on delivering English and Spanish training to under-resourced, grassroots organizations.

The workshop fee is $25 which includes resource materials. Registrants will receive a parking pass for the garage near the library. Checks made payable to: The Cultural Foundation of Broward, or by credit card online. For more information, call Adriane Clarke, grants specialist with the Broward Cultural Division at 954-357-7530.

Click HERE to register online.

The South Florida Artists Association will host a “Meet-up” the evening of May 14 at Full Circle Gallery 201 SW 5th Street, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301. Ms. Rodriguez will provide a talk on preparing artist statements for the group, and any interested artists. For more information on this “Meet-up” event go to: www.south-florida-artists.com or contact 954-695-1587.

This Project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment of the Arts