AWS WORKSHOPS FOR ARTISTS & ARTS ORGANISATIONS
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Stephanie has completed three business programs, and has worked as a manager in retail and hospitality management for years before founding her own successful businesses Difinity Dance Studio & Productions, and ArtWithSas Consulting. She has had a rich career in providing performance and visual arts community education to a wide variety of age groups and cultural groups from across Canada. She is certified in many management and human resources designations including, but not limited to:
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For Artists
To be a successful Artist in the Canadian market, artists of all disciplines have to be empowered with basic to advanced business administration skills, this is where we come in. We offer 2 to 3 hour workshops, and full day teaching seminars for Artists and Arts Organisations in the following categories of skill sets.
Contracting in Canada for Artists 101:
Safe Working Spaces 101:
Arts Customer Service & Sales 101:
Safe Working Spaces 102:
Teaching Art 101:
Building Your Portfolio & Brand 101:
Contracting in Canada for Artists 101:
- How to create contracts, invoices and receipts that are in accordance with CARFAC rates, and are legally binding within your provinces. This includes how to incorporate a Code of Conduct and best practices into your contract to ensure you remain protected and free from physical and mental harm or injury when working in the arts workplace in accordance with relevant provincial legislation.
- How to create partnership, affiliate,and fundraising agreements when working with other Artists and arts organisations in accordance with applicable Manitoba business laws. Including what to include, and what not to include.
Safe Working Spaces 101:
- How to create a safe working space for yourself in and out of the studio. Including how to work with hazardous materials, how to store supplies and art works in a fire prevention manner, and how to organize your work space and installations so that you remain injury free,. How to set up a fire and emergency plan for yourself and artists you share studio space with.
Arts Customer Service & Sales 101:
- How to develop a customer service and sales policies and procedures manual for yourself. How to manage the customer service and sales process including commission requests, bookings to teach, and exhibitions of your work.
Safe Working Spaces 102:
- How to protect yourself from harassment, discrimination, bullying, and cyber-bullying as an practicing artist and art educator in the arts workplace. Including how to set boundaries, Incident documentation, and Incident Reporting. This workshop curriculum is the Cultural Human Resources Council Maintaining Respectful Workplaces Workshop. Stephanie is an official Trainer and can be booked for this workshop only by contacting Lucie: https://www.culturalhrc.ca/news/2019/hosting-chrc-workshops-maintaining-respectful-workplaces
Teaching Art 101:
- How to set up, advertise, book, organize, and facilitate an in-person and or online arts workshop. Including how to teach beginner students, students with a learning, physical, and/ or intellectual disability, and art for kids. Learn how to adapt your curriculum to different learning styles using technology and traditional methods to provide innovative, inclusive, and relevant graphic and fine arts content.
Building Your Portfolio & Brand 101:
- How to set up your portfolio using online platforms such as social media and artist agent sites, website hosting sites. Including how to generate income online as a free-lancer by building vlog, blog content through ad sale monetization and subscription based platforms.
For Art Organisations
Artists, are Entrepreneurs with their own legal rights in accordance with Canadian legislation, and contract law. Knowing how to book artists and arts educators respectfully, and how to create a safe workplace once you begin working with them is pivot to the success of your organisation. The following workshop series are presented via webinar, and seminars, or can be booked for cultural conferences and are 2 to 3 hour in length. Organisation's who book the following workshops receive a certificate of completion, as well as attendees in some circumstances. Master your daily operations by learning how to develop policies and procedures, and best practices for accounts management.
Booking Artists 101:
Developing A Collaborative Arts Workplace 101:
Public Relations 101
Committees & Community Engagement 101
Human Resources Management 101- Policies & Procedures Basics
Vendor Management 101- Promotion & Trade with Artists
ArtWithSas offers a wide range of customized consulting services, however we recommend participating in these workshops to get you started on the right path with these foundations in arts and cultural management.
Booking Artists 101:
- How to manage the artist-to-agent, artist-to-producer, and artist-to-arts organisation relationship during and after the artist has been booked for educational and entertainment purposes.
- The To Do's and Not Do's when sending out to artists: invitations to collaborate, requests for proposals/ and submissions, contracts, and project management paperwork.
- How to manage the sales process with artists and how to promote them effectively. Learn about business contract laws in relation to the arts industries legislation within Manitoba, and standard insurance policies for arts organisations including workers compensation. Including how to ethically source Artists and Arts Educators.
- How to create culturally inclusive spaces by creating a welcoming cross-culturally friendly workplace. Including how to promote, educate, and book cultural artists in a variety of genres. Including how to develop culturally inclusive language in the workplace and on digital platforms.
- How to create physically inclusive venues, and spaces for artists, audiences, and arts educators with physical disabilities and/or health conditions. Including recommended adjustments to the facilities you host services in, ensuring safe transport to and from your location, emergency planning recommendations, and more.
- How to create inclusive venues, and spaces for artists, audiences, and arts educators with learning and/ or intellectual disabilities. Including recommended adjustments to the facilities you host services in, ensuring safe transport to and from your location, emergency planning recommendations, and more.
- How to ensure the physical space you have artists, arts educators, audience's, and arts administrators in are physically safe to be in. Including how to ensure your space is safe from trips/ slips/ falls, and other accidental injuries from environmental hazards.
- How to develop an emergency evacuation plan and preventative policy and procedures plan.
- How to train your staff, volunteers, artists, and prepare audiences for emergency evacuations at your venue (including protecting those who are deaf/ blind/ hard of hearing/ and those with physical, learning, or intellectual disabilities and/ or health conditions).
- How to develop and maintain a respectful arts workplace. Under the Respectful Workplaces in the Arts (RWA) banner, CHRC has engaged professional HR experts to train a select group of sector trainers from different disciplines to develop and deliver workshops on Maintaining Respectful Workplaces. Since the trainers come from different parts of the country and the sector, they bring specific expertise and knowledge to these offerings. If you are interested in hosting one of these workshops please contact Lucie D’Aoust at ldaoust@culturalhrc.ca. We are beginning to build up a schedule that will extend from September 2019 to March 2020. For this first pilot year, a limited number of trainers’ fees is being generously covered by the Department of Canadian Heritage.The workshops will be 3 hours in length and adapted to the audience, whether they be employers, workers, artists or a mixed group of 12 – 24 participants. Gathering sister organisations or members or clients for a workshop is strongly encouraged.This is the seeding of a true change in culture - beyond the adopting of policies and signing of codes, important as those are. This is where the RWA motto begins to really resonate: Respect: you’ve got our word.
- How to develop a code of ethics, and code of conduct for your organisation. Including how to develop an ethical and collaborative workplace culture.
- How to draft collaboration agreements to increase partnerships with other multi-disciplinary arts and cultural organisations, and stakeholders.
- How to develop digitally inclusive spaces on online platforms including social media and websites for artists, audiences, arts educators, arts administrators, and organisations that serve person's with disabilities and or health conditions.
- How to provide continuing skill-based education to artists using webinars and other digital strategies, and ensuring your website and social media platforms meet Canadian legislative requirements for those who are hearing and or visually impaired.
Developing A Collaborative Arts Workplace 101:
- How to create a collaborative workforce of staff and volunteers digitally and in real-time physical spaces
- How to create a collaborative culture to increase relationship building with new stakeholders, artists and organisations.
Public Relations 101
- Interviewing Skills In-Person and through digital spaces
- How to develop policies and procedures for dealing with negative press
- How to generate positive press and coverage of the work you do for your organisation
- How to develop a press release kit
Committees & Community Engagement 101
- How to engage artists in your organisation, and effectively utilize their craft and skill sets to expand your organisations scope of practice.
- How to develop Artist Residencies & Artist Mentorship Programs
- How to gain critical feedback from your local community, and engage more members, volunteers, and stakeholders in the work you do
- How to develop, recruit, and maintain positive productive committees for your organisation
- How to effective recruit, maintain, and utilize volunteers for a wide scope of your services within your organisation
Human Resources Management 101- Policies & Procedures Basics
- How to hire and recruit arts professionals in management and administration
- How to create an professional training and development plan for your new and senior arts administration team members and management
- How to protect your organisation from liability due to employee acts of fraud, theft, acts of violence/ discrimination/ bullying/ and sexual harassment in relation to liability
- How to prevent acts of fraud, theft, acts of violence/ discrimination/ bullying/ and sexual harassment within your organisation from employees, volunteers, sub-contractors, and audience members
- How to measure employee productivity and performance
- How to create short and long term employee recognition programs
- Employee rights and laws in relation to the arts workplace
- How to create a competitive compensation and benefits plan including additional perks to motivate and retain top-tear arts management professionals.
Vendor Management 101- Promotion & Trade with Artists
- How to integrate local and national artists services into your administrative operations
- How to promote your arts members locally and nationally to recruit and retain your individual and small business artists.
- How to effectively promote sub-contracted artists at your events and in,digital spaces, social media platforms and websites
- How to create incentives, barter and trade agreements with artisans.
ArtWithSas offers a wide range of customized consulting services, however we recommend participating in these workshops to get you started on the right path with these foundations in arts and cultural management.
