KC Artist LINC Community Advisory Committee Awarded Grant to Implement Training and Professional Development Program

The Arts Council of Kansas City, in partnership with the Charlotte Street Foundation (CSF), will launch a new artist-focused training and professional development program covering topics including strategic planning, marketing, fundraising, and technology.  The program is designed to serve 90 diverse, multidisciplinary, emerging, and established local artists over a two-year period.  Kansas City partners will also launch a website to link local artists with programs and services through a user-friendly database, and provide a supplemental call-in service to connect artists to additional resources.  In January 2009, LINC awarded an implementation grant to the Arts Council and CSF to launch this new program.

 

Kansas City became a LINC Creative Community during the 2006-2007 grant-making cycle.  What followed was a planning process to identify and address the needs of local artists. The Arts Council and CSF collected information on individual artists’ needs by creating a database of 700 local artists, holding a town hall meeting, and thoroughly examining relevant research and census data.  With oversight by the KC Artist LINC Community Advisory Committee, local partners used the information to establish training and professional development as their primary area of focus.