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Welcoming Artists of all Disciplines to a Discussion of Our Creative Future

November 7–8, 2009

Boston Public Library
700 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116
www.bpl.org

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7
 
MORNING
 
9:30–10:00am Registration
   
10:00am Laura Pattison of the BPL: Welcome!
Kathleen Bitetti: State of the Artists Address
   
10:15–11:20am

Our Creative Future — a conversation

Moderator: Kathleen Bitetti

Panelists:
Paul Horn, performer and President of the New England Chapter of AFTRA
John Grimes, Boston Musicians Association
Liora Beer
Dan Hunter, playwright, songwriter and Executive Director of MAASH
Special Guest Bethany Ewald Bultman, President/Director, New Orleans Musicians Assistance Foundation (www.nomaf.org), New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic (www.neworleansmusiciansclinic.org)
   
11:30am – 12:20pm How to Create Community, Network and Networking Tools  

Moderator: Ja-nae DuanePanelists:
Jessica Burko, artist, curator, arts marketer, Founder of Boston Handmade
Brian Handspicker, President of the Berkshire Artists Colony; Chair of the Eclipse Mill Gallery
Bea Modisett, artist and founder of This Collective Pull events
Imani McFarlane, owner and fashion designer of Boston’s House of Tafari
Chloe Gracia-Roberts, Masspoetry.org
Norah Dooley, MassMouth
   
12:30–1:30pm Lunch, Networking and Art: TBA
   
   
AFTERNOON  
   
1:45–3:00pm
 Workshop 1: Free and Low Cost Technology Tools For Artists and Artist Run Businesses/Projects (big room)  

Panelists:
Ja-nae Duane, Opera Singer & Co-Founder of Massachusetts Artists Leaders Coalition (MALC)
Don Schaefer
Ean White
Todd van Hoosear, Social Media Club
   
  Workshop 2: Teaching Artists (small room)  

Panelists:

Jim Dalton
David Marshall, Director of The Creative Minds Project
Maggi Smith-Dalton

 
   
3:10-4:15pm Workshop 1: Grants and Resources (big room)  

Panelists:
Kelly Bennett, artist and Massachusetts Cultural Council/Artists Programs Department
Liora Beer
Larson Gunness, Financial Advisor, writer, musician & storyteller
   
  Workshop 2: Copyright and IP Protection (small room)  

Panelists:
Sheri Mason, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
Jonathan Yasuda, musician/law student (currently involved with local and federal Copyright infringement cases)
Don Schaefer
Ken Dubrowski, Illustrator and Director of Operations for the Illustrators Partnership of America
   
4:25–4:50pm TBA
   
   
EVENING  
   
Activities and performances to be announced
   
   
   
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8
   
1:00–1:20pm Registration
   
1:30–2:20pm Panel: Meet the Press and Create your own Press

Moderator: Maggi Smith Dalton  

Panelists:
Pat Williams, founder and publisher of The Word
Christian Holland, executive editor, BigRedandShiny
Mary Bucci McCoy, artist and longtime contributor to Art New England
Greg Cook, artist and art critic for The Boston Phoenix & founder New England Journal of Aesthetic Research and the Boston Art Awards
Noah Joffe-Halpern, musician and PlaygroundBoston.com
Charles Coe, Co-President of the Boston Chapter of the National Writer’s Union
   
2:30–3:30pm Workshop 1: How to Market, Price, Network and Negotiate (big room)  

Panelists:
Ken Dubrowski, Illustrator and Director of Operations for the Illustrators Partnership of America
Liora Beer
   
  Workshop 2: Artist Residencies (small room)  

Mary Sherman, artist and founder of TransCultural Exchange
Jim Dalton
Maggi Smith-Dalton
Kathleen Bitetti, artist, activist, co-founder of MALC, co-founder of ArtistsAlliance.us

   
3:45–4:30pm Mass Mouth, performance (http://massmouth.blogspot.com/, http://massmouth.ning.com/)
   
END OF CONFERENCE
   

 

 

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