Get Your Sh*t Together!
Fractured Atlas is proud to announce the launch of its latest Fractured U. online course: Getting Your Sh*t Together, developed by artist/arts administrator/educator/guru Karen Atkinson.
This course will take you through a survey to determine just how much you know about the business aspects of being an artist. It will give you a good idea just how much you need to learn, or the satisfaction that you already know what you need to know. The second part will take you through 10 steps to getting your sh*t together. If you complete these 10 steps, you will be well on your way to engaging with the art world and having a handle on just what else you need to figure out.
Karen Atkinson is a media, installation and public artist, independent curator, collaborator, and has published and guest edited a number of publications. She has exhibited and curated internationally including South Africa, Australia, Europe, Mexico, Canada, and throughout the USA, and exhibited in the Fifth Havana Biennial in Cuba. She was a co-founding director of Side Street Projects in 1991, a non profit artist-run organization in Los Angeles which is still up and thriving today. She has been a faculty member at CalArts since 1988. She is a past board president of NAAO, the National Association of Artists’ Organizations. She has served on the board of directors of LACPS, Side Street Projects, Installation and serves on many Advisory Boards of arts organizations. Atkinson currently teaches classes and workshops titled “Getting Your Sh*t Together” and has created software for visual artists of the same title. Her company GYST Ink, is an artist run company for artists. She also co-edits the blog.
This course will not give you a guaranteed recipe for success. But, it will introduce you to the many “businessy” things you need (though may not want) to know about as an artist — things like planning, managing your time, networking, and getting yourself organized. And, since Karen is an artist herself, you can rest assured that she makes these things simple and easy to digest.
This is an introductory-level course and should take you about 1-1.5 hours to finish. Keep in mind that this course is not live, but rather asynchronous — meaning you can take it on your own time and may start and stop as many times as you’d like.
Register today for the Getting Your Sh*t Together course at Fractured U, where arts professionals learn to navigate the business of art.
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[...] that helps artists manage their lives and careers. If you remember from back in January, we launched one of Karen’s courses (about getting your sh*t together) on Fractured U., our FREE online course system for Fractured [...]