The Centre for Creative Practices Annual Meeting Point For Migrant And Culturally Diverse Artists

Being a Professional Artist with Nicola Anthony

Monday 5th October

Online vie Zoom from 4pm - 6pm

Nicola will look at a number of facets that go into being recognised as a Professional Artist. These include:

• Professional - how to show you are serious...

• Thinking like an entrepreneur - not like a starving artist!
• Running your studio like a business and valuing your time fairly
• Having a strategy to anchor and steer you - 5 and 10 year plans, envisioning the future you and acting like it now.
• Assets to show you are professional - CV, portfolio, website, good communications, business cards,
• Professional accreditation / memberships
• Taking the art-world stigma away from ideas like: Brand, selling, being 'commercial', marketing

• Building a professional network

• Networking - what to do if it doesn't come naturally
• What to do in times of social distancing - opportunities to make use of
• Online networks: Social media
• Giving to your network, having a generous spirit

• Reputation and recognition - things that help you climb the ladder

• Competitions & Awards
• Exhibitions for your CV, beginning with group shows, aiming for your higher targets
• Funding and sponsors
• Books & publications
• Press coverage
• Keeping a consistent sense of identity

After the talk, Nicola will be happy to answer your questions in a Q/A.

Nicola Anthony is a Professional artist known for metal text sculptures and burned paper drawings, which give glimpses into the effects of displacement, migration, and intergenerational trauma. She focuses her research on untold narratives, collective memory, and life stories.

Timetable

4 - 4.15pm Introduction

4.15 - 5pm Being a professional artist - what does it mean and how to get there? With Nicola Anthony

5.00 - 5.10pm Break

5.10 - 6pm Open Forum - How have you been over the last 6 months? Artists experience - questions, suggestions, issues and possible solutions with Monika Sapielak CFCP

The Centre for Creative Practices is delighted to invite you to our third annual Meeting Point for Migrant and Culturally Diverse Artists.

The purpose of our Annual Meeting Point is to establish a vibrant network between migrant, culturally diverse and local artistic communities allowing for new collaborations, cross-pollination, professional and personal growth.

Under current Covid-19 government restrictions we cannot deliver the Meeting Point as a physical event and instead we decided to run a SERIES OF TALKS, PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS via Zoom.

2020 Meeting Point will encompass 6 Sessions and will take place on the following dates:

7 & 21 September, online from 4 – 6 pm - New funding schemes & commissions of new works

5 & 19 October, online from 4 - 6 pm - Being a Professional artist, well-being for artists and professional development opportunities

2 & 16 November, online from 4 - 6 pm - Pop-up shops - the quick guide how to set up and run a pop-up shop and the Arts Council's new funding schemes and supports programmes for artists

The Programme

Annual Meeting Point for Migrant and Culturally Diverse Artists

September - November 2020

September

Monday 7 September

4 - 6pm

• New funding schemes by the Arts Council of Ireland - Artwork Commission Scheme and Artist Professional Development Award as well as CFCP's - call for artists for the New Voices of Ireland Series 2020 with Monika Sapielak, CFCP
• Open Forum - How have you been over the last 6 months? Artists experience - questions, suggestions, issues and possible solutions.

Monday 21 September

4 - 6pm

• Eramus+ funding for artists and arts organisations, Léargas
• Artist Professional Development Award from the Arts Council of Ireland

October

Monday 5 October

4 - 6pm

• Being a professional artist - what does it mean and how to get there? With Nicola Anthony
• Open Forum - Artists experience - questions, suggestions issues and possible solutions

Monday 19 October

4 - 6pm

• Well-being for artists
• Open Forum - Artists experience - questions, suggestions issues and possible solutions

November

Monday 2 November

4 - 6pm

• Pop-up shops - the quick guide how to set up and run a pop-up shop with Mullingar Employment Group
• Open Forum - Artists experience - questions, suggestions issues and possible solutions

Monday 16 November

4 - 6pm

• Funding Opportunities and other support for Artists - Arts Council, Ireland with Ann O'Connor, Head of the Arts Participation
• Open Forum - Artists experience - questions, suggestions, issues and possible solutions.
• Wrap up of the Series

We very much look forward to connecting with you over the next three months.

We hope you will be able to join us and benefit from professional support and exchange with your peers.

Zoom in, learn, share and enjoy!