Creative Entrepreneurship Short Course
Course description
Course overview
Being successful in the visual arts and creative industries requires not only business knowledge but confident interpersonal and enterprise skills. If you wish to become more self-assured and ambitious this course is for you.
Alongside talent, artists, designers, image makers and creative professionals have prospered through a variety of means. Many skills need to be enhanced or acquired to become a successful practitioner or build a business within the creative industries. This course aims to assist in developing a range of interpersonal and practical enterprise skills to help you profit from opportunity.
Who this course is for
This course is suitable for artists, makers, designers, photographers or any other creative professionals wishing to develop their entrepreneurship skills.
Key information
Topics covered
- Gain an overview of trends, creative promotion and how to attract attention
- Have a practical insight into making presentation skills, and how to pitch a proposal or gain commissions
- How to negotiate, understand the tactics, principles and creative theory
- Get to hear first hand from a creative entrepreneur, gain an insight into their journey, and ask them questions
Learning outcomes
- You will start to develop an entrepreneurial mindset to help embolden your outlook whether you are a creative freelancer, start an arts/crafts practice, or design business
- Consider the key aspects of networking and finding opportunities
- Become more confident about yourself and evolve new inter-personal skills
- Digital badge and certificate of attendance
Materials
- Day 1 and 2: A Sketch/notebook with pen or pencil (comfortable size)
- On day 2 please also bring some examples of your work/2-3 printouts if possible. If this is not possible, we can view images on a table or laptop, or phone.
Tutor
Alison Branagan
Alison Branagan MA IC FRSA is an author, creative enterprise consultant and an associate lecturer at Central Saint Martins.
Over the last decade Alison has written several business start-up and specialist enterprise books for artists, designers and creative entrepreneurs. Her latest book is The Essential Guide to Business for Artists & Designers, second edition, with a foreword by Sir James Dyson is published by Bloomsbury. She lectures in business start-up, innovation, legal matters, self-promotion, and presentation skills. Alison has also developed entrepreneurial workshops and initiatives for a number of arts colleges, universities and organisations.
She is also an associate of the Design Trust, Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, Member of the Society of Authors, Associate of the Institute of Consulting, Member of the Federation of Small Businesses, and Crafts Council mentor. Alison has also been an ethical adviser to the Association of Illustrators and a mentor for the The Freelancer Club, (for stylists, fashion designers and photographers).
She has also worked as a specialist arts and design business adviser for a wide range of enterprise support and creative industries programmes in the UK. She has a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Birmingham School of Art and an MA (Distinction) in Applied Art and Visual Culture from Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design. For further information about her publications, workshops and view a selective archive of her arts practice please visit: www.alisonbranagan.com
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