Creative Massachusetts: The Artists Congress 2009

Free to Be You and Me
Do you compose songs using a pentatonic scale, paint autumnal landscapes with cadmiums, or write poems that purposely don’t rhyme? Perhaps you shoot photographs using film or make illustrations using an app on your cell phone. No matter what your discipline, you are welcome to attend the free professional development program taking place Sat., November 7 & Sun., November 8, 2009 at the Boston Public Library (Boston, MA) courtesy of the Massachusetts Artists Leaders Coalition (MALC).

Creative Massachusetts: The Artists Congress 2009 is jam packed with free information and welcomes artists to a discussion about their creative future. Take a look at the line up to see for yourself:

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7
MORNING 9:3010:00am Registration

10:00am Laura Pattison of the BPL: Welcome!
Kathleen Bitetti: State of the Artists Address

10:1511:20am 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 Duane
Panelists:
Jessica Burko
Brian Handspicker, western MA
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

12:301:30pm Lunch, Networking and Art: TBA

AFTERNOON
1:453:00pm
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

4:254:50pm TBA

EVENING
Activities and performances to be announced

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8
1:001:20pm Registration

1:302:20pm 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

2:303:30pm 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

3:454:30pm Mass Mouth (http://massmouth.blogspot.com/, http://massmouth.ning.com/)

For more information on this free event go here.