Tomorrow July 28, from 7-9PM there will be a workshop at the Orange County Arts Council on Networking and Collaboration. You can learn more about that here.
You might look at this and wonder why you would ever attend. Businesses network, artists shouldn't have to. For an artist, perserverance and hard work towards their craft should be enough. But, as I'm sure many of you know, this is not the case. In order to meet clients and get jobs, artists have to be in the right place with the right people at the right time; something that, with the right networking, does not have to be an accident.
You might look at this and wonder why you would ever attend. Businesses network, artists shouldn't have to. For an artist, perserverance and hard work towards their craft should be enough. But, as I'm sure many of you know, this is not the case. In order to meet clients and get jobs, artists have to be in the right place with the right people at the right time; something that, with the right networking, does not have to be an accident.
Networking can also help artists with business problems, that they might not know how to solve. When you expand your contact list, you're also expanding your knowledge base. Knowing who to contact when a problem arises can help you as an artist tremendously.
image from rachel-levy
Janice Valentino, the facilitator for Tuesday's workshop, knows the importance of networking. As Director of Marketing for Hospice of Orange & Sullivan Counties Inc., she has to use networking in her job every day.
Part of the "What Every Artist Wants to Know but is Afraid to Ask" series of workshops, Networking and Collaboration gives you skills for the future of your business as an artist.
Part of the "What Every Artist Wants to Know but is Afraid to Ask" series of workshops, Networking and Collaboration gives you skills for the future of your business as an artist.
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