Using sound business principles to succeed in the arts

Since 1995, ARTISIN has been helping individual artists, arts organizations and arts-related businesses attain sustainable success by employing sound, time-tested business strategies and principles.

ARTISIN consultants combine years of business experience and expertise with a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities faced by professional artists of all disciplines.

The result is a realistic, achievable plan, tailored for your specific needs.

Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

– Kurt Vonnegut

Image: born digital no. 3, 2005, archival digital print by Kitty Hubbard

ARTISIN provides the services you need to move forward

Arts Organizations

Strategic and Business Planning
Project Planning and Implementation
Organization and Capacity Building
Membership and Volunteer Programs
Branding and Marketing
Board Development and Leadership

Artists

Business and Financial Planning
Establishing a Niche
Entrepreneurship
Marketing and Publicity
Portfolio Development
Building Collaborative and Support Networks

Arts Organizations and Businesses

A perfect synergy

Building a sustainable business in the arts requires two very different sets of skills and talents: artistic and creative sensibilities, and specialized business knowledge and planning.

With extensive experience in both the arts and business worlds, ARTISIN provides the expertise and guidance to help arts organizations to think like businesspeople — and arts businesses to use their art as an entrepreneurial springboard — to develop and implement plans for success.

The sustained growth and development of an arts organization is earned through the creation of important art and the establishment of a base of support for that art.

– Michael Kaiser, President, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Artists, Artisans and Performers

Taking everything into account

When working with individual artists, ARTISINʼs approach is flexible and holistic, viewing the individualʼs career as a whole rather than addressing issues piecemeal.

A clientʼs needs are almost always multi-faceted and overlapping; a client may seek help in one area (portfolio development, for example), and then discover that they are missing opportunities another (such as breaking into new potential markets).

An ARTISIN consultant will unravel the interdependent issues and guide you through the process of setting goals and working to reach them.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.

– Andy Warhol

Image: NoMAA grantees for 2012 at the grants ceremony held at OSA-Cornerstone Center, January 2012. (Photo: Sirin Samman.)