SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture is offering artists a chance to develop business skills.
The county just launched a new educational series called Work of Art for creative workers in the Central Coast region.
The series is designed to teach essential business skills to creatives across disciplines such as music, writing, culinary arts, film, and more.
Workshop facilitators come from the Central Coast region with training and curriculum support from Springboard for the Arts.
Adrienne de Guevara, a Santa Barbara-based artist who teaches one of the courses, said, “Many artists either have never been exposed to basic business information, find it overwhelming to integrate it into their creative practice, or have been taken advantage of because they did not know how to value their work. With these workshops, we aim to meet creatives where they are by using language that is relevant to their practices.”
Producing organizations include the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture, Arts Council for Monterey County, Arts Council Santa Cruz County, San Benito County Arts Council, San Luis Obispo County Arts Council, and Ventura County Arts Council.
Funding for the program is provided by the California Arts Council as part of the Central Coast Creative Corps workforce development program.
For more information on Work of Art, visit: sbac.ca.gov.
