Weekend Professional Development Workshop

September 11 - 13, 2009

Creative Capital will present a regional professional development workshop at Penland School on September 11 - 13, 2009.

The weekend workshop retreat is an intensive two-and-a-half-day crash course in self-management, strategic planning, fundraising, and promotion. Based on a rigorous and comprehensive curriculum, the workshop format employs lectures, peer critiques, one-on-one consultations, interactive exercises, handouts, and written assignments to introduce business skills. The weekend begins with artists showing their work. Then presentations by the co-leaders are followed by focused sessions in each of the topic areas. Participants are given a handbook and workbook as well as handouts on practical how-to information, and meet with leaders in smaller work groups.

Up to twenty-four participants will be selected after a review of applications. The workshop is open to artists living in the following Western North Carolina counties: Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Granville, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, and Yancey.

If you have questions about this workshop, contact Leah Buchanan, program assistant:

leahbuchanan@penland.org

No tuition will be charged for this workshop; there is a $60 fee for meals and snacks. On-campus housing is available for $80 per night but participants are not required to stay on campus.

Application form (Word document)

Your application must also include a resume, three printed images of your work, and a letter describing why you would like to take the workshop and what you hope to gain by attending.

Applications are due at Penland by Friday, August 21.

Participants must attend the entire workshop. The workshop times are as follows: Friday 5:30-9:00 PM, Saturday 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM, Sunday 8:30 - 5:00 PM. Please do not sign up for the workshop if you cannot attend it in its entirety.

Bio information for workshop leaders (Word document)

Creative Capital is a national nonprofit organization that supports artists pursuing adventurous and imaginative work in the performing and visual arts, film/video, innovative literature, and emerging fields.

These workshops are made possible by an Economic Innovation Grant from the North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center.