[Forum] Arts Business Institute

[Joseph Conway]

Earlier today, I saw a posting on the web:

    *Call for Artists: Arts Business Institute Comes to Haywood
    Community College in Clyde, NC*

    Artists from across the country will have the opportunity to sharpen
    their business skills when the Arts Business Institute (ABI) holds
    an Arts Business Boot Camp for artists at Haywood Community College
    in Clyde, N.C.   Titled Reinventing Your Art and Craft Business in
    the 21st Century, the boot camp will be held March 30-April 1, 2007.
    This will be the 5th annual ABI boot camp at Haywood Community
    College. The weekend workshop is designed to provide realistic
    information and essential knowledge about managing an arts business
    to artists at all levels of experience. ABI faculty includes Bruce
    Baker, Milon Townsend and Nancy Markoe.

The Arts Business Institute is a professional, non-profit education 
organization that provides artists with the business skills needed to 
manage successful arts businesses. The Institute provides learning 
modules on topics such as product development, pricing, public 
relations, wholesaling to galleries, taxes and accounting. The weekend 
workshop is being produced in partnership with the Arts Business 
Institute (www.ArtsBusinessInstitute.org), Haywood Community College 
(www.haywood.edu) and Handmade in America (handmadeinamerica.org).

Maybe the idea of an artist boot camp isn't new to the other members of 
the BVA forum, but I think it could be one good way to brand and market 
the region to artists and creatives in the outside world.