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LMCC is pleased to announce four (4) distinct opportunities for Professional Development for Artists offered in 2013. LMCC's programs are free, and focus on workshops and training on timely issues in the areas of business proficiency, artistic practice, and community engagement. We invite New York City artists across disciplines to join us for learning and dialogue, and to create robust and expanded networks. To stay up to date on LMCC's Professional Development for Artists, click 'update ' in the email footer and select Artist and Grant Opportunities.
Heidi Riegler, Marketing Instructor, and participants	March–April Marketing and Communications for Artists is a three-part workshop series that offers practical knowledge for artists and small arts organizations who wish to develop improved communication strategies and expand or deepen their relationship with audiences. Covered topics include: developing an online presence, social media, and press and media relations. Workshops are offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration is available for the full series and for each workshop. Registration Open Now!
BFA participant	April–May Basic Finance for Artists (BFA) is an intensive six-week seminar on personal finance that offers 20 artists comprehensive training in financial management through a unique combination of seminar-style learning and hands-on group and individual exercises. Due to high demand, space is limited and eligible participants will be selected through a lottery process. April 16-May 21, 2013 Tuesdays, 4:30-7:30PM Registration Open Now! Deadline for Registration: March 5, 2013 11:59PM
Workshop participant	June–July Fundraising Fundamentals is a six-part series that features LMCC's core fundraising curriculum, to help artists develop skills in raising the resources to support their practice. Covered topics include: the funding ecosystem, writing strong grant proposals, budgeting, preparing work samples, and cultivating individual donors. Workshops are offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration is available for the full series and for each workshop. Registration will be announced in Spring 2013.
ASI participants	August Artists Summer Institute (ASI) is a five-day intensive professional development opportunity for artists. The program brings together the best of LMCC and Creative Capital programs to provide arts-focused professional training, tools, and advice that help put artists on a path to greater sustainability and self-sufficiency. August 7-11, 2013 Registration will be announced in Spring 2013.
Workshop participants	News: LMCC and Assets for Artists This year, LMCC is partnering with ArtHome, a nonprofit organization with a mission to help artists build assets and equity, to provide BFA and ASI artist alumni with access to the Assets for Artists matched savings program, which allows low-income artists to accumulate working capital to invest in their creative businesses through a combination of savings and matching funds.
LMCC's Arts Services Programs are supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, Charina Endowment Fund, F.B. Heron Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Lambent Foundation, and Mertz Gilmore Foundation. LMCC's Arts Services Programs are also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Artists Summer Institute is made possible with support from the New York City Economic Development Corporation's Artist as Entrepreneur Program and, in part, by Creative Capital's Workshop Subsidy Program, underwritten by the Kresge Foundation.
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