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Recession is the mother of reinvention...

Recession is the mother of reinvention
Posted by Lisa Canning on Feb 7th, 2010
Stephanie Sack changed prices at Vive La Femme from high-end to "cheap and chic," which "completely saved the business," she says. Photo: Erik UngerBy: Christina Le Beau November 09, 2009 Written By: Christina Le Beau  Crain’s...

2010 Chicago Creative Expo...

2010 Chicago Creative Expo
Posted by Lisa Canning on Feb 4th, 2010
The 2010 Creative Chicago Expo will be held on Saturday, April 10, 2010 from 10am-4pm at the Chicago Cultural Center. This year, TheIAE will be a sponsor of the event. Now in its 7th year, this CCE connects artists and art organizations in all disciplines...

Self Employment in the Arts 10th Conference (SEA) ...

Self Employment in the Arts 10th Conference (SEA) Feb 19-20, Lisle, IL
Posted by Lisa Canning on Feb 4th, 2010
Happy 10th anniversary SEA! The SEA conference is coming right up and if you have never attended you need to! Come learn more about how to turn your artistic passion into a living from other successful artists. What The Conference Offers In addition...

Innovation Can Be A Piggy-Back Ride: The Story of ...

Innovation Can Be A Piggy-Back Ride: The Story of Jibbitz
Posted by Lisa Canning on Feb 2nd, 2010
When we think about what kind of business we can create with our artistic skills, sometimes the ideas that come to mind piggy-back on to the product of another. Think of iphone apps and you quickly get the idea. The story of Jibbitz illustrates this...

13 Steps to a Happy Artistic Life...

13 Steps to a Happy Artistic Life
Posted by David Cutler on Jan 31st, 2010
Success is a common theme in my writing.  Of course, there are many types of success: landing a job, performing well, creating a great composition, mastering a technique, getting noticed, going viral, attracting web traffic, moving audiences. ...

Rocco Landesman Interview on PBS NewsHour...

Rocco Landesman Interview on PBS NewsHour
Posted by Lisa Canning on Jan 29th, 2010
Earlier this month, The Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Rocco Landesman, was  interviewed on PBS’s NewsHour by Jeff Brown.  If you did not have a chance to hear this, it is a terrific interview and has much to inspire the...

Making Sense of our Urgency, Making Art out of Rad...

Making Sense of our Urgency, Making Art out of Radishes
Posted by Adam Shames on Jan 27th, 2010
Still tasting the tortillas from my recent excursion to Mexico, I am most struck by one cultural difference here: a distorted sense of urgency of American life. We always have somewhere we have to get to, something else we must do, this to get done,...

Webposium for Teaching Artists Friday Jan 29th, 20...

Webposium for Teaching Artists Friday Jan 29th, 2010
Posted by Lisa Canning on Jan 25th, 2010
The Dana Foundation is offering a free Webposium for Teaching Artists on Friday, January 29, 2010 11:00-12:00 (CST)  12:00-1:00PM (EST) Online they will be discussing the challenges and successes of working with students with disabilities.  The...

Identifying your ideal client...

Identifying your ideal client
Posted by Barbara Kite on Jan 24th, 2010
I found this information extremely useful.  It has made a difference in my approach to reaching the clients who want me and will pay for my services.  (the following has been edited for this blog) Identifying Your Ideal Client Profile By Nancy...

An Innovation Environment...

An Innovation Environment
Posted by Linda Essig on Jan 24th, 2010
There is an opinion piece in today’s Arizona Republic by Craig Barrett, former CEO of Intel, about creating an environment for innovation in the state in which I live. Among his other observations, he writes, “just look at the thousands of startup...