Looking to advance your creative career? Check out these Next Steps trainings!
The Indiana Arts Commission (IAC) has committed to working together with the Indiana Small Business Development Center (ISBDC) to improve the economic resilience of creative small businesses. Through Next Steps Creative Business training opportunities in the months of July and August, over 250 creative small businesses across the state will be equipped with entrepreneurship training, a creative community network, and a direct bridge to their regional ISBDC.
Next Steps trainings will be offered through partnerships inclusive of the IAC Regional Arts Partners. Trainings are designed for creatives who are either currently generating revenue from their creative practice and want to expand their business, or for those who don’t currently generate revenue from their creative practice and want to learn how to.
Creatives may attend more than one training and all trainings are open to creatives from anywhere in the state.
To learn more about Next Steps Trainings near you, see the links below:
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Louise "Ouizi" Jones paints a mural in downtown Roanoke. Photo courtesy of Ruesser.
Internationally-renowned Detroit muralist shares stories behind her work in Roanoke
Excerpt from article by Jacyln Goldsborough in Input Fort Wayne
Internationally-renowned muralist Louise Jones (née Chen), aka Ouizi, couldn’t stay away from Northeast Indiana for too long. Nearly a year after her last installation called “Big Peony” on The Landing in Fort Wayne, Jones returned to the region to install downtown Roanoke's first mural in decades.
Jones’ new mural is at Reusser, a digital agency located at 150 S. Main St. in Roanoke. Thanks to a partnership between the Huntington County Visitor and Convention Bureau and Reusser, Jones was selected for her expertise in large-scale floral mural installations and was inspired by common Indiana flowers, including peonies and black-eyed Susans.
Learn more about the mural and Ouizi's process.
Grace Enstrom works on a design. Photo courtesy of Ann Marie Shambaugh.
Making their mark: From nursing to living abroad, artists take winding roads to careers at Carmel tattoo gallery
Excerpt from an article by Marissa Johnson in Current Publishing
Today, tattoos are often considered works of art. But even a decade ago, that wasn’t always the case.
“In Indiana, I’d only known people with biker tattoos. I hadn’t really considered it an art form,” said Grace Enstrom. “I still remember someone in art class saying, ‘I’m going to be a tattoo artist when I grow up,’ and not getting it.”
But now, Enstrom works at Forever Gallery Tattoo as one of only a few female tattoo artists in Carmel.
Like Enstrom, Kayla Taylor never considered tattooing as a career.
“I was so focused on what others told me would be a good job,” Taylor said. “But the longer I’m here, it seems like it was bound to happen.”
Her background as a registered nurse for nine years served her well in the transition to becoming a full-time tattoo artist for the past two years, also at Forever Gallery.
“I’ve worked postpartum for six years and now I’m there once or twice a month,” Taylor said. “The balance is different, but it’s very good.”
Read the full article.
The Latest Social Media Trend Is…Poetry?
Excerpt from a article by Trish Tooney in InsideHook
Friends Kalliope and Lyra have a few things in common: they’re both designers who study graphic design and art in Indiana, and they’re both 23. They’re also both anonymous poets on TikTok, posting their work to thousands of followers every day.
“I decided to be anonymous online because it allowed me to be more open and vulnerable,” Kalliope says. “I could write whatever I wanted without fear of negative backlash in my personal life.”
For most people, poetry is something that they only interacted with back in a classroom setting, but on TikTok and Instagram, poetry is very much alive and well. Poets like Rupi Kaur and Morgan Harper Nichols are racking up millions of followers on Instagram for their clean aesthetic and short form prose. Instagram poetry, as Lyra explains, is more direct than the old-school, academic poetry you might have studied. “It’s a lot shorter than I feel like most poems are, and it gets to the point,” she explains. “A lot of people can connect and relate to it, but it doesn’t really have the flowery like metaphors and the kind of the rhythm that old school academic poetry has.”
Read the rest of the story.
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Stay creative and awesome,
Jordan Adams Artist Services Manager
Indiana Arts Commission
joadams1@iac.in.gov
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