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2025 Workshop Schedule
Workshop 1: Career Planning & Successful Time Management
A hands-on workshop and discussion 
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Madi Manson
Loud Flower Art Co

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Adrienne De Guevara,  DV8 Creative

Sunday, March 9th, 1 - 3:30pm
The CAW (Community Arts Workshop)
631 Garden Street
Santa Barbara, CA
$10

Career Planning and Successful Time Management is a two part workshop. The first half of the session offers a hands-on exercises designed to offer artists practical tools for developing an achievable plan for accomplishing career aspirations. The second half of the workshop will be a discussion with Madi Manson of Loud Flower Art Co who will offer her personal experience as a working artist and business owner.
 

Art KIT is faacilitated by Adrienne De Guevara, sculptor, social practice artist, and programs and fund development officer for the Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative. De Guevara is an experienced group facilitator, fundraiser, and art administrator. In 2023 she was a recipient of the California Central Coast Creative Corps Individual Fellowship award. She is a primary collaborator at MISC Workshop in Santa Barbara, CA and is an avid community organizer focused on the arts. 

 

Madi Manson is an artist and small business owner who, born and raised in Ojai, has called Santa Barbara home since 2016. She runs and operates Loud Flower Art Co, an emotionally screen printed line of apparel and homegoods with designs that help people feel their feelings and know they are in community with that work. In 2023, she opened 506 E Haley St with her husband Ben Bishop. 506 is Loud Flower’s screen printing studio along with retail shop, photography and art book gallery and community gathering space. She is on the organizing committee for Off Register: Santa Barbara’s first Art Book and Print Fair which debuted at CAW in Nov 2024.

Sunday, March 9th, 1 - 3:30pm
The CAW (Community Arts Workshop)
631 Garden Street
Santa Barbara, CA
$10
Workshop 2:  Portfolio Kit & Artists Statements
Sunday, April 6th, 1 - 3:30pm
The CAW (Community Arts Workshop)
631 Garden Street
Santa Barbara, CA
$10

More information to be announced

Workshop 3:  Archiving & Pricing Your Work
Sunday, June 8th, 1 - 3:30pm
Location TBA
$10

More information to be announced

Workshop 4:  Business Infrastructure
Sunday, July 20th, 1 - 3:30pm
The CAW (Community Arts Workshop)

631 Garden Street
Santa Barbara, CA
$10

More information to be announced

Workshop 5:  Intellectual Property
Sunday, August 3rd, 1 - 3:30pm
The CAW (Community Arts Workshop)

631 Garden Street
Santa Barbara, CA
$10

More information to be announced

Workshop 6:  Business Infrastructure
Sunday, September  7th, 1 - 3:30pm
The CAW (Community Arts Workshop)

631 Garden Street
Santa Barbara, CA
$10

More information to be announced

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The Art Collaborative is thankful for the support it receives for this program that allows artists to receive Art KIT training at an affordable cost. This vital for a healthy creative economy. 

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