Not a great idea. Does not help the artists. Focus on building strong art organizations that can do most of what the artists need. Most artists want sales, sales, and sales.  Making them good business people is not the answer. Rather focus on providing good selling opportunities in many different formats.  From time to time you can still provide workshops on specific skills that will help them sell, such as framing, setting up at art fairs, photographing their art, etc.

John Quatrale
Unbound Visual Arts
Boston, MA





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On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 4:51 PM, Crystal Young-Otterstrom <cyo@utculture.org> wrote:
We’re doing a low maintenance mentorship program for now. People sign up to be a mentor, UCA members can have access to the list of people willing to be mentors. A mentee then reaches out to a mentor and arranges it on their own time. www.utculture.org/mentors 

One of our members wants to make it more formalized but we haven’t gone too far down that route.

Thanks!
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On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 1:26 PM Danel Malan <Danel Malan > wrote:

It’s my first year going, so I don’t quite have a feel for the schedule yet, but will try to call you before the conference starts.

 

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Kristin, 

 

Would love to talk! 

 

My cell is 919-602-2121. I’m there the 13th -17th, but have Private Sector Council and other mtgs all day the 14th and morning of 15th, but otherwise just hanging out. 

 

Wanna make a plan now, or figure it out when we get there? 

 

Beth

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On May 7, 2018, at 1:11 PM, Kristin Larsen <klarsen@artsbiz-chicago.org> wrote:

Hi Beth- Business Volunteers for the Arts (BVA). I believe AFTA has materials to support set up. And I will happily discuss how Chicago’s program works at the AFTA conference. (We’ve been running BVA in Chicago for 33 years!)

 


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Hello Local Arts Leaders!

 

We have been approached by a local group who wants to work with us to provide mentors for local artists (all disciplines) on business issues, such as marketing, business formation, etc. We need to start thinking about creating a workable structure for such a program. We are very much at the beginning of thinking about this, so need to start understanding the ways such programs can be structured and staffed. 

 

Does anyone have programs they think have an efficient structure that they can point us to online? Better yet, if anyone with a mentoring program plans to be at the AFTA meeting in Denver, would you be willing to sit down with me for a bit and let me pick your brain?

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Beth Yerxa
Executive Director
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