Intro to Public Art Consulting: a workshop for Minnesota-based BIPOC individuals interested in public art consulting

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Intro to Public Art Consulting

A workshop for Minnesota-based BIPOC individuals interested in public art consulting

Overview

Intro to Public Art Consulting is a five-week virtual workshop, for Minnesota-based BIPOC artists/individuals with little to no public art consulting experience, aiming to give participants an understanding of how to start on the path to public art consulting.

The workshop will consist of recorded and live sessions [all virtual] over the course of five weeks, and will engage guest speakers in discussions. Workshop content will be presented through an equity lens with a particular emphasis on giving BIPOC individuals knowledge and resources to explore public art consulting as a career path.

Participants will leave the workshop with the following knowledge:

Participants can identify all of the different roles and skills held by a public art consultant.
Participants build relationships and connections that help advance their professional network and spark new collaborations and opportunities to work across the various sectors represented.
Participants can identify a wide range of resources that they can use after the workshop to develop their public art consultant career paths.
Participants leave the workshop with an action plan identifying their next steps to becoming a public art consultant.

Workshop dates

March 2 – March 30, 2023

Forty-five minute session recordings will be emailed at the beginning of each week, and ninety minute long live conversations will happen 12 – 1:30pm CT Thursdays.

Workshops will take place through virtual recordings and live conversations using Zoom. Participants should plan on spending one hour on guided self reflection between sessions.

Sliding scale between $0 – 200

Apply through Submittable. Questions you’ll answer are:

Give a short description of your current professional work. What consulting experience do you have (not a requirement to participate)?
Why are you interested in taking this program?.
Upload resume
Do you identify as BIPOC?*
What communities do you consider yourself a part of?
What other identities do you hold (Two-spirit, veteran, disabled, LGBTQIA+, single parent, formerly incarcerated, etc.)?
What is your zip code?

If writing’s not your jam, submit a 5 minute video addressing:

Give a short description of your current professional work. What consulting experience do you have (not a requirement to participate)?
Why are you interested in taking this program?.
What communities do you consider yourself a part of?
What other identities do you hold (Two-spirit, veteran, disabled, LGBTQIA+, single parent, formerly incarcerated, etc.)?

The application dates have passed

*This workshop is for Minnesota-based BIPOC individuals who are interested in public art consulting.

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