Artistic entrepreneurship – How do you see your artistic practice as a small business?
The course was a 6 weeks course for art students at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts held in 2014.
COURSE DETAILS
Credits / ECTS: –
Participants: MA students (MFA)
Teachers: External teachers
Language: Danish
DURATION
Course/workshop: 6 lessons of 6 hours in 2014
LEARNING GOALS
There was not described any learning goals for the course.
APPROACH
Kurset tilgang var kompetencedrevet med afsæt i de studerendes personlige kunstneriske projekt.
EVALUATION AND GRADING
There was no one.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course Artistic entrepreneurship consisted of six sessions:
1. Your personal leadership – how to take responsibility, how to make a plan?
The course worked with the students’ work as it looked at the exact moment (the student life was considered as a work life). What takes up much time? What is very important in their consciousness? On the way to school and on the way home? What experiences and challenges, students in meeting other people (other students, partners, at work, etc.)?
Exercise: The reflective team was introduced.
2. Practical examination of a small business
The course went through, what it takes to make a small business out of the artistic practice: Website, social media strategy, scholarships, contact galleries and museums, network, etc.
3. Practical examination continued …
4. Visit the gallery and a museum
The students spoke with a gallerist and a museum person.
5. Your competence wheels
Exercise: The students drew a competency wheel and underwent reflexive skills – action skills – subject-specific skills – technical skills – personal skills – interpersonal skills
6. Where are you going?
The students made an outside world analysis of market / partnerships. Development of strategy planning models based on skills and knowledge – threats and opportunities – values and aspirations – social responsibility.
How can students affect the future value systems? What are they prepared to learn and start taking care of? Where do they want to move in their professional lives?
The artist as a businessman? Preconceptions and deconstruction – business opportunities and training in the development of ideas – the promotion of innovative partnerships between artists and entrepreneurs.
Date
2014
Language
Danish
Project owner
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Contact person
Lena Rogers