Lynda.com is a business resource website by LinkedIN. The site offers memberships for as little as $19.00 per month that will give you access to thousands of video tutorials on a vast aray of business and entrepreneurship topics including some specific to arts related fields such as:
- Video production
- Design (modeling and prototypes)
- Photography
- Marketing
- Music Business
- Copyright and other legal matters
- Technology
- Web design
ACI TIP: The resources for musicians are especially plentiful. Non-musicians could sign up for the free trail to see if there are enough business-related resources to make it valuable to them.
on Wednesday, 19 August 2015.
Posted in Arts Organizations, Film, General Resources, Music, Professional Development, Technical Assistance
Women Arts has compiled a wonderful list outlining organzations that offer emergency funding for artists who have experienced a tramatic event or illness that has affected their lives and art careers.
View the list of organizations and funding opportunities at: http://www.womenarts.org/funding-resources/emergencyfunds/#EmergencyAll
on Wednesday, 19 August 2015.
Posted in Literary Arts, Music, Visual Arts, Grants and Funding
Women Arts has created a listing of organizations offering funding to artists in many different categories including by region, by discipline and specifically for women artists.
http://www.womenarts.org/funding-resources/fundlists/
on Wednesday, 19 August 2015.
Posted in Dance, Film, Literary Arts, Music, Public Art, Theatre, Visual Arts, Grants and Funding
Americans for the Arts offers a resource page for artists connecting them to:
- funding
- professional development
- healthcare
- housing
- advocacy
- and more...
http://www.americansforthearts.org/by-topic/for-artists
on Wednesday, 19 August 2015.
Posted in Dance, Film, General Resources, Literary Arts, Music, Public Art, Theatre, Visual Arts, Grants and Funding
Kyle Williams of Seeds of Music talks to Joe Solo about the necessity of learning business basics in the Music Business. They call it the "music business" for a reason!
on Tuesday, 14 July 2015.
Posted in Music
Kyle Williams hosts an interview-based web show in which he talks to thousands of musicians and marketing professionals to share best practices and tips for building your fan base. Kyle believes that every musician can make a living making their music.
Get introduced to Kyle here in his video "5 Effective Ways for Musicians to use Social Media to Build Super Fans". From there, sign up to recieve his e-news and watch more helpful videos at www.SeedsofMusic.net
on Tuesday, 14 July 2015.
Posted in Social Media, Music, PR/Marketing
Ron Dawson is a filmmaker and photographer. He has created Dare Dreamer Magazine, a blog about the art and business side of filmmaking and photography. The in-depth blog contains how to videos and thoughtful blog entries about various topics related to the commercial film and photography industry. One blog entry that covers the topic of how to legally use copyrighted music in your video production could be most helpful for our artist viewers.
See the full blog entry here.
on Monday, 06 July 2015.
Posted in Film, Music, Ethics and Best Practices
Having a high quality recording of your music is critical to getting grants and gigs! Whether you have several albums under your belt or are an emerging musician ready to make a demo, you'll find the list of Indianapolis - based recording studios a great resource for your next project.
Nearly every studio has a musical style they do best so it is imperative that the musician do their homework to find the studio that is best suited to them and their work.
The Pop Machine Recording Studios
www.thepopmachine.com/
Aire Born Group | Recording Studios Greater Indianapolis
www.aireborn.com/
Music Garage
mymusicgarage.com/
The Lodge Recording Studios
www.thelodgestudios.com/
Azmyth Recording Studios
www.azmythrecording.com
on Wednesday, 01 July 2015.
Posted in Music
