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Local Partner: Houston Arts Alliance

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Creative Communities Project

DiverseWorks Development Workshops:

The Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) is partnering with DiverseWorks to expand its existing training and professional development program. As a non-profit contemporary art center, DiverseWorks (www.diverseworks.org) is dedicated to presenting new visual, performing, and literary art, as well as offering lectures and educational programs to complement the “investigation of current artistic, cultural and social issues.” The Development Workshops create opportunities for professional artists in Houston and surrounding counties to support their artistic practice. Over a six month period at least 30 artists from all disciplines will participate in the program and acquire skills sets necessary to achieve self employment through the arts.
 
The program includes core courses in:
                Strategic planning
                Budgeting and money management
                Legal concerns for artists
                Marketing, public relations and promotions,
                Financing creative work
                Personal sustainability for artists
 

HAA also continues its partnership with Spacetaker (www.spacetaker.org) to make available its online professional development information concerning, Houston Artist Field Guide (www.houstonartist.org), which contains artist-related resources including exhibition and performance space opportunities, live/work space listings, equipment and material vendors, and material support programs in the Houston metro area. Together, these components offer artists opportunities to improve the ways in which they manage their careers and market opportunities, serve as ambassadors to improve public understanding of artists’ contributions to the community, and act as advocates for issues that concern them as artists and citizens.

 

About Houston Arts Alliance

The Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) supports and promotes artistic life in the Houston region through a host of programs, initiatives, and alliances. HAA manages the distribution of more than $9 million in grant monies to more than 250 arts agencies and individual artists, provides technical service to organizations of all sizes, manages the City civic art collection of more than 450 works that is growing on average by $5 million in artwork annually, develops cultural tourism initiatives in collaboration with the Greater Houston Convention and Visitor’s Bureau, and is the entity designed to incubate new initiatives on behalf of the broader community.
 
Grantmaking Period and Focus
June 2004 – March 2009

Training and Professional Development

 

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