Facilitators: various
Language: English/Dutch

Art school may have taught you how to experiment, make, and critique, but if you recently graduated, you might be finding yourself at a loss when it comes to navigating the larger cultural sector. This is where the Artist Survival Guide comes in.

The Artist Survival Guide is a 6-part workshop by working artists in iii’s network covering entrepreneurial survival skills such as grant writing, budgeting, negotiating with curators, and promoting your work. The workshop is aimed at recent, soon-to-be art school graduates and working artists looking to further professionalize their practice.

Past subjects have included:

Cultural Entrepreneurship with Matteo Marangoni
Project Management and Fundraising with Matteo Marangoni
Budgeting for a Sustainable Practice with Marije Baalman
VAT administration with Marije Baalman
Social Media Strategies with Soyun Park
Production and Standard Contracts with Dieter Vandoren

About the workshops

Budgeting for a Sustainable Practice
Marije will guide you through how to make a personal budget as a working artist, how to create a project budget.

Project Management and Fundraising
Matteo will take you through the different phases of making a project happen, from planning, securing funding, connecting to stakeholders, to presentation. This workshop also goes through how to make your project relevant to public and society.

Budgeting for a Sustainable Practice
Marije will guide you through how to make a personal budget as a working artist, and how to create a realistic project budget.

VAT
The tax system can be complicated if you’re a freelance artist who earns income from multiple sources. Learn about tax rates for different art forms, deductions, exemptions, and how to write a proper invoice.

Social Media Strategies
Soyun will share strategies on how to use Instagram and LinkedIn to reach clients, followers, and collaborators. Through exercises, learn how to edit your profile, how to create content from your portfolio, how to navigate the ethics of social media, and how to reach the audience you’re looking for. Suitable for both visual and sound-based artists.

Promotional Writing for Artists
From the perspective of artist, curator and PR person, Yun will take you through various writing exercises to come up with different versions of biographies and work descriptions for different audiences/purposes. We will assemble basic press kits, select good documentation of work, and talk about how to talk about your work.

Production and Standard Contracts
In this workshop, Dieter will outline the practical details of a presentation in different settings (theater, gallery, museum, festival), from negotiating contracts to writing tech riders.


Past dates:
20 September – 20 November 2022
19 October – 20 November 2021
14-15 November 2020