Resources for Individual Artists
Individual artists are creative, flexible, entrepreneurial, and resiliant people. Arts Wisconsin offers a list of resources, contacts, and ideas to make the job a little easier.
Business resource information
Government regulations
Selling your work locally and globally
Legal assistance for small businesses
Insurance information
Business resource information for artist-entrepreneurs:
- Wisconsin Women's Business
Initiative Corporation
http://www.wwbic.com
A statewide economic development corporation providing quality business education and access to capital for entrepreneurs - Wisconsin Small Business
Development Center
http://www.wisconsinsbdc.org/
The Wisconsin SBDC network educates entrepreneurs -- beginners and veterans alike-- through an array of low-cost classes and no-cost confidential counseling. - Wisconsin Department of Commerce
- Bureau of Entrepreneurship: nurtures high-potential entrepreneurial companies and help small and start-up businesses access the resources they need, which includes:
- Wisconsin Business Wizard: customized information to help you start and operate a Wisconsin-based business
- Programs that target minority-owned,
native-American-owned or women-owned business start-ups or expansions.
- Wisconsin Entrepreneurs
Network
www.wenportal.org - UW Extension Center
for Community Economic Development
www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/cldev.html - Chicago Artists Coalition "Artists
Self-Help Guide"
www.caconline.org/default.asp?page=book_selfhelp Includes: Publicity, Copyright, Licensing, Sample Forms, Contracts, Grant Writing and Funding
- "Consignment of works of fine art," Wisconsin Statutes Chapter 129
Opportunities to sell your work, ideas,
models, resources, and "best practices" for self-employed and
entrepreneurial artists:
In Wisconsin:
- Wisconsin Common Market
http://www.wisconsincommonmarket.com from the Western Dairyland Community Action Agency - WisconsinMade.com
http://www.wisconsinmade.com
seeking art created in Wisconsin
contact via email at linda@wisconsinmade.com, or submit information through the website
Globally:
- Art
Deadline List
http://artdeadlineslist.com/subscribe
A free monthly email newsletter listing art contests and competitions, art scholarships and grants, juried exhibitions, art jobs and internships, call for entries/proposals/papers, writing and photo contests, design and architecture competitions, auditions, casting calls, fellowships, festivals, funding, and other opportunities for artists, art educators, and art students of all ages. - Arts/INDUSTRY
http://www.kohler.com/corp/ai/artsindustry.html A Residency Program for Visual Artists at The John Michael Kohler Arts Center - New York Foundation
for the Arts
http://www.nyfa.org/level1.asp?id=1
NYFA’s mission starts with individual artists in the visual, media, performing and literary arts. This site offers access to the most comprehensive list of opportunities for artists in the nation, opening doors to the widest range of financial, educational, technological, and institutional resources and information (serves artists in all 50 states) - The Emerge
Project
http://www.emergeproject.net
Offers emerging artists access to the experience, advice and example of those who came before—artists, curators, critics, gallerists and collectors. Their stories will help emerging artists find their own path. The Project's mission is to provide resources that help emerging artists build careers within the professional art world. - fuel4arts.com
http://www.fuel4arts.com
a great arts marketing site from the Australia Council for the Arts - National
Center for the Arts and Disability
http://nadc.ucla.edu/listing.htm
- State Bar of Wisconsin's Business
Assistance Program
www.legalexplorer.com/legal/legalQA.asp?PositionPoint=&Sid=8&Qid=2#uest= Small and emerging businesses throughout Wisconsin can receive up to two hours of counselling from a business lawyer at no cost. This service is provided by members of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of Wisconsin. Your lawyer can help you to identify problems affecting your business and develop a plan for solving those problems. This program is provided as a public service by the Business Law Section. Participation in the Business Assistance Program does not imply further obligation. - The Law Portal
www.thelawportal.info
This website offers primers on the law for artists and arts organizations on all aspects of the policy environment for the arts. Topics range from the traditional and familiar (copyright) to the new and sometimes obscure (two-way broadband network access), and from the personal (how to find healthy materials) to the professional (how to develop contracts) to the political (free speech and the arts). Development of the site was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.
Insurance information for individual artists and small businesses
- Qvisory Tools for Life, from the Service Employees International Union, a new nonprofit organization to help young workers who lack health insurance and are mired in debt. The website should debut by summer 2007.
- The Wisconsin Alliance of Artists and Craftspeople offers a health insurance plan for Wisconsin residents who are members of the WAAC, through the Pekin Insurance Company of Pekin, IL. Contact Beth Ann Hamilton, Director, at waac@artcraftwis.org or 608 798 4814 for information.
- Small business
insurance website
http://oci.wi.gov/smempins.htm
In January 2003, Wisconsin's Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI) unveiled a new Web page for small employers to help them search for insurance. - The national organization Fractured Atlas "serves a national community of artists and arts organizations, facilitating the creation of art by offering vital support to the artists who produce it." Programs include health insurance plans and marketing services.
-
Artists Health Insurance
Resource Center
http://www.actorsfund.org/ahirc/
Information about individual and small business group health insurance options available in each state, from The Actor's Fund.