events and classes
Want to learn more about getting your arts career get off the ground? Business and entrepreneurial skills that really work can be learned at the following events around the country or in the following classes at UW–Madison.
events
- PUBLIC EVENTS -- Arts Enterprise: Art As Business As Art
(All events are free and open to the public) - Thursday September 10 | 4:00-5:00pm | Student Commons, Art Lofts, 111 N. Frances St
Lisa Sonora Beam presentation: "Life as a Creative Entrepreneur: Making a living while making art" - Wednesday September 23, 2009 | 7pm | Overture Center
Where Art and Audience Collide: Smashing Assumptions About Arts Venues
ELIZABETH STREB
Choreographer | Founder, Streb Lab for Action Mechanics (SLAM) - Thursday September 24 | 10:30-11:30am | Grainger Hall Plenary Room, 975 University Ave
Elizabeth Streb presentation: Physics in the Arts - Thursday October 1 | 5:00pm | 179 Human Ecology, 1300 Linden Dr
Lydia Tanji presentation: Costume Design - Thursday October 15, 2009| 7:30pm | Mills Music Hall
Imani Winds Performance -
Thursday November 12, 2009 | 7pm | MMoCA
Arts, Inc.: Greed, Neglect, and Our Cultural Rights
BILL IVEY
Obama’s Arts and Humanities advisor | Director, Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt -
Thursday December 3, 2009 | 7pm | Overture Center
Arts Journalism 2.0: The Next Wave in Arts Conversations
DOUGLAS McLENNAN
Founder, ArtsJournal | Director, National Arts Journalism Program
classes: fall 2009
- Arts Enterprise: Art as Business as Art
The Art as Business as Art course website and blog are now live at artsenterprise.wisc.edu/artbizart. Course updates are also posted on Twitter twitter.com/artbizart. Please visit these sites for up-to-date information on course schedules, activities, guest speakers, and events.
Please note: The course is not open to the public, however visitors may inquire with ataylor@bus.wisc.edu or sjutt@wisc.edu directly about observing a particular class.
Course number: Business 365/765 Special Topics
(crosslisted with Art/Design/Music/Theatre & Drama 469 Interdisciplinary Studies in the Art)
Topic Title: Arts Enterprise: Art as Business as Art
Instructors: Andrew Taylor, School of Business and Stephanie Jutt, School of Music, with featured speakers from arts and business
Day/Time: Fridays 8:50-11:50 a.m.
Credits: 2-3
Prereq: Juniors, Seniors, and Grad Students, Consent of department
Limit: 35
Course description: Artists and other creative workers have long balanced their expressive work with business realities—marketing, contracts, funding, financing, patronage, and public engagement. Whether as independent contractors, sole proprietors, company founders, contract artists, project collaborators, board members, or volunteers, successful artists have wrestled with the life of an entrepreneur in a complex and ever-evolving industry. But what if the business side of artistic expression wasn’t just an inconvenience, but an integral part of the expressive palette? What if the tools of business were used with a craftsman’s hand to advance an artistic vision in more elegant and connected ways? This course will explore the dynamic interplay between artistic life and business strategy, and will feature compelling national figures who cross that line everyday. It will offer new perspective and foster new connections for an interdisciplinary group of students, and advance the role of “arts enterprise” on the UW–Madison campus.
This course is offered as part of the Arts Institute Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program in partnership with UW-Madison Arts Enterprise, the Bolz Center for Arts Administration, and the School of Music. For more information please contact Kate Hewson at (608) 263-9290 or visit the Arts Institute Web site.
other entrepreneurial educational opportunities
- Visit the Wiscontrepreneur Web site to connect with others thinking about and creating new business entities and socially beneficial organizations.
- Visit UW–Madison's Office of Corporate Relations Web site for special lectures and events that will teach you more about becoming an entrepreneur.
- UW–Madison’s Entrepreneurial Residential Learning Community
You have a passion for innovation. You have a thousand ideas that could possibly be the next “Velcro®.” You’ve started bands, clubs, or even businesses. If this is you or this is who you want to be, then we want you to dream big and join the Entrepreneurial Residential Learning Community.The ERLC is located in Sellery Hall on the UW–Madison campus and is committed to the celebration of entrepreneurship, creativity, and innovation in society. Meet students with intellectual curiosity and a passion for entrepreneurial undertakings. Be ready for late night brainstorming in this entrepreneurial "think-tank." Exchange ideas with people like you and become a part of a campus and city wide network of social, business, and artistic entrepreneurs.
- For classes and support for small business, check out the Small Business Development Center, which has many locations in Wisconsin, including one in Madison. The site also offers First Steps, a free online course to help you determine if business ownership is right for you.