ART BUSINESS SEMINARS

How to make an arts income a reality.
Meet professionals, artists and arts entrepeneurs. Develop your unique potential.

Skills necessary to succeed in the arts outlined in concise comprehensive sessions.
Key areas are covered under the following session topics:

The Main Event - small and large event management

Creative Selection - guidelines for doing business in the arts

Marketing For The Arts - essential promotional tools for artists

Finaincial Matters - the business side of being an artist

Time Is Money - pricing art practices and preparation for growth

The Fine Art Of Schmoosing - representing yourself and your art profession in person

Funding And Sponsorship Strategies - successful proposals, and art commissions

An Art Focused Business Plan - documentation and career planning

A Holistic Approach - identifying creative cycles and visualisation

ART BUSINESS CONSULTANCY

A service for visual artists, writers and proformers including photographers, buskers, installation artists, dancers, actors, musicians, designers and fine craftspeople. Those in creative industries who seek advice and support with combining art and business.

Personal assistance with:

developing art focused business plans

promotional development

fine tuning business skills in the arts

arts networking opportunities

commissioned work and intellectual property

Why FUSE?

Success in the arts requires a unique combination of creativity and basic business skills.

FUSE is an independent arts initiative conceived and launched in Christchurch. It is still the only service of its kind to be offered in New Zealand. Sarah Amazinnia and Kate Spencer, the creators of FUSE have 30 years combined research and experience working in the arts industry both locally and abroad. Both run their own art businesses and have initiated numerous arts projects. As each offer their divergent perspectives, these fuse to provide a comprehensive, realistic and frank approach to the intricacies of the business of being an artist.
An artist attending commented that the consultation "allowed a mutual exchange of information and set a tone of friendly professionalism."

On completion of the seminars another stated what many express, that they begin to
"feel confident to develop an art business without compromising artistic integrity."

The FUSE course is available to artists through Work and Income NZ, and in association with CPIT (Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology).
The next FUSE seminar series offered in Christchurch dates are:

Short talks and courses which can be a precurser or suppliment to the FUSE seminars