Jackie Battenfield Presents Creating Your Own Success: An Investment for Artists

Artist Jackie Battenfield Presents

Creating Your Own Success: An Investment for Artists

A Career Development Workshop for Artists

On Saturday, February 20, 2010 at ArtServe in Fort Lauderdale 

BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. - Broward Cultural Division and ArtServe invite artists, gallery owners and creative entrepreneurs to a half-day workshop with well-known artist Jackie Battenfield. Creating Your Own Success: An Investment for Artists, a career development program for the creative community, will be held on Saturday, February 20, 2010 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at ArtServe Inc., 1350 East Sunrise Blvd in Fort Lauderdale. This workshop will be the first in a series of seven technical workshops for artists to be held throughout the year. 

Creating Your Own Success: An Investment for Artists will provide an overview of the fundamental skills artists need for developing and sustaining a professional life. It will introduce planning to identify individual needs and goals to develop a more rewarding and satisfying artistic practice. It will cover tips on how to promote, fund, organize and reach out to resources in your community. Included are skill-building exercises and time to address participant questions. 

A popular lecturer on the challenges of sustaining a successful career in the visual arts, Jackie Battenfield is a painter and printmaker, living in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love published by Da Capo Press, 2009. This comprehensive sourcebook is based on the professional practice classes that Battenfield has taught for more than eighteen years in the graduate program at Columbia University, and the Professional Development Program at the Creative Capital Foundation for visual artists. She directed the post graduate seminars for The Artist in the Marketplace Program (AIM) at the Bronx Museum of the Arts for more than 16 years. Through these programs she has mentored more than 2,000 artists. She is represented by the Addison-Ripley Gallery, Washington, D.C, and DM Contemporary, New York, and she is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner award, and a Warren Tanner award. 

The fee for the Saturday morning workshop is $25. Seating is limited (register early - 8:30 a.m. check in is encouraged). Registration for the workshop, which includes a copy of The Artist's Guide, is available online. To RSVP, go to the direct link - https://patronsecure.com/bccd/events.cfm; or through the Broward Cultural Division website at - www.broward.org/arts and click on "Workshops." 

For more information, please call Adriane Clarke, grants specialist, 954-357-7530, E-mail: aclarke@broward.org.

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