Professional Practice Development Mentorship Program

Do you have a project in development and need help to make it happen? This mentorship program provides a resourceful knowledge-base to refine your vision and direction to deliver on your art project and art practice career goals. Applications to the program will be assessed on a rolling basis; if you are accepted into the program, the Mentor, Claudette Abrams will connect with you directly to schedule one-on-one mentorship sessions. Please note that each individual/collective will be allotted a maximum of 6 hours of mentorship per term.

Topics covered:
Fundraising: arts grants, sales, rentals, sponsorships
Opportunities: call for submissions, memberships, partnerships, gallery representation
Artists Statements & CVs: developing and refining a vision, practice and direction
Planning: prioritize goals, set benchmarks, production budgeting and scheduling
Production: techniques, materials, suppliers, studio space
Reproduction: formats, printing, limited editions, certification, licensing, copyright, NFTs
Pricing: CARFAC, market comparisons, sales and price scaling
Commissions: client quotations, contracts and terms
Installation: fabrication, tools, transport, technical, framing, lighting
Documentation: artwork photography, video, site floor/wall plan specs
Promotion: network, artists websites, blogging, social media, print media, publishing & distribution
Invoicing: closing a sale, deposits, billing systems, gallery commissions, GST
Touring: packing, crating, transport, travel, brokerage, insurance

ABOUT THE MENTOR

Claudette Abrams is a multimedia artist, curator and graduate of the Ontario Collage of Art in Communications and Design. She has instructed at OCADU in New Media Studies, and at the CAMH Partial Hospitalization Program in Mindfulness Art and Photo-based Art. She is the curator of the CAMH Transitions Art Collection, CaRMS Patient Experience Advisor, and has served on Art Policy Development and Public Art Selection Committees. She has produced exhibition projects for festivals and venues such as Workman Arts, Rendezvous With Madness, Nuit Blanche, Luminato, Tangled Art + Disability, the Contact Photography Festival and the Toronto International Art Fair

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At what stage of your art career are you currently?*

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How will you benefit from this one-one-one Mentorship?*

Please provide a brief description of your arts project.*

What are the priority areas of the project coaching needed? Please select up to 3 priority areas.*

Is this a collaborative project? If yes, please list all participants and their roles.

What is the duration of your project? And what is your planned delivery date? If you don't have any concrete dates yet, please provide an estimate. *

Does your project currently have funding? Please list your project budget and reporting date if you already have a grant.

Accessibility: please list any accessibility accommodations you require.

Please upload your CV. *

Please share some examples of your artwork and/or a single file of on-line links to media, websites, etc. *

If you have an artist statement and a short bio, please upload them here in a single file.

Please indicate on which of the following days/times you are available for the Master Class. *

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