A comprehensive workbook designed by artists for artists to develop your creative business. Work of Art is a professional development curriculum is designed to teach business skills to artists in all disciplines, including visual, performing, and literary arts. The curriculum starts with big-picture career planning, and covers critical topics such as marketing, promotions, legal considerations, […]
A manual for artists who would like to begin or deepen work in and work with community. Artists are critical catalysts for change in our communities; artists bring people together, grapple with conflict, and weave paths for a new future. To support artists doing this work, Springboard for the Arts developed A Handbook for Artists Working […]
A comprehensive field guide is designed to empower rural leaders in planning and executing effective place-based projects centered in arts, culture and creativity. Developed in partnership with the Blandin Foundation, Heartland, Heartwork: A Field Guide to Place and Possibility is a comprehensive Field Guide designed to empower rural leaders in planning and executing effective place-based projects centered […]
A guide for artists and organizations to create mobile tools to engage the public.
A guide to connecting artists to buyers by distributing shares of art works, adapted from the Community Supported Agriculture movement.
A toolkit for artists to make a mural map that illustrates the history of their community.
A toolkit to help you create a useful toolkit to share about your project.
Lightning Rod is a flexible framework for creating “flash theater,” an action of community involvement and political action, and an exercise in the most basic qualities of collaborative performance-making. A time- and resource-limited invitation for artists of all backgrounds and skill levels to embrace constraints as opportunities for creativity, in its original format, Minneapolis-based performance […]
A toolkit to create a public art project celebrating the everyday heroes of your community. Every community has people who have held it down, kept it going, served, supported, and cared for their community. They are not often not in the spotlight, yet their absence would be deeply felt. Their actions flow from the care […]
A toolkit for mobilizing local artists to solve challenges in your community. Cities and neighborhoods need creative thinking. Particularly when communities are facing big challenges, artists see opportunity in challenge, beauty in chaos and have practical skills and creative thinking that can draw people and attention to an issue or a place. Irrigate was a […]
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