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Professional Development: Watch Past Webinars
gener8tor Art offers free professional development webinars and workshops for all artists to help them build sustainable art careers. These webinars provide practical business skills and advice for artists who are looking to create a solid entrepreneurial foundation for their art practices.
gener8tor Art Master Class: A Conversation with Curators
Curators from different cities share their perspectives on working with artists. Curators include Scott Campbell from Independent Curators International, Ciera McKissick from AMFM, and Shoshana Resnikoff from the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Conversations with Gallerists
An open conversation with gallerists from different cities with different perspectives on working with artists. Gallerists include Courtney Childress, yours mine & ours gallery; Andrew Rafacz, Andrew Rafacz Gallery; and Vincent Uribe, LVL3 Gallery.
Encouraging Sales and Cultivating Collectors
Peter Gynd and Krista Scenna from the Ninth Street Collective explore where to identify potential collectors and how to cultivate buyers for your work. They also review helpful techniques and best practices to encourage sales and build your list of clientele.
The Price is Right: Pricing Your Artwork
Courtney Childress, from the Ninth Street Collective guides artists through the proper protocol for pricing artwork.
Applications Do’s and Don’ts
Leen Bnyat, gener8tor’s Grants Director, discusses best practices for grant writing and how to ensure you’re putting forth the best application possible.
Artist Statement Workshop
Shama Rahman, Founding member of the Ninth Street Collective and Director of Brand Strategy at New York Magazine, guides artists through creating and editing clear and effective artist statements.
gener8tor Art Spring 2022 Info Session
Maureen Ragalie, Director of gener8tor Art, discusses the 2022 gener8tor Art program and application process.
Join us for a conversation with John Riepenhoff
John Riepenhoff, Sculpture Milwaukee's Executive Director, discusses how he hopes to engage the Milwaukee arts community.
gener8tor Art Master Class: A Conversation with Gallerists
An open conversation with gallerists sharing their perspectives on working with artists. Gallerists include Claudine Ise from Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, IL; John Riepenhoff from the Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI; and Christopher Rivera from Embajada Gallery, San Jaun, Puerto Rico.
Digital Strategies for Artists
Mark Rosen, a Digital Strategist for the worlds of art, design, and luxury, provides practical tips for creating quality digital content for artists to share their work on social media and to grow their social media following.
Preparing for a Virtual Studio Visit
Ninth Street Collective members Audra Lambert and Heather Zises offer tips on how to successfully plan, promote and execute a virtual studio visit.
Creating a Budget for your Art Project
Jenie Gao, of Jenie Gao Studio LLC, offers practical advice on developing a budget for art projects, focusing on pricing models centered on fair compensation for labor.
Artist Statement Workshop
Shama Rahman, Founding member of the Ninth Street Collective and Director of Brand Strategy at New York Magazine, guides artists through creating and editing clear and effective artist statements.
LLC Vs. Sole Proprietor
Daniel J. Gawronski, Senior Associate at Michael Best, discusses the differences between LLCs and Sole Proprietorships and provides guidance for artists on which legal entity is best suited for their practices.
Health Insurance Enrollment Resources
for Artists
Jeni Appleby, from Milwaukee Enrollment Network, Program Manager and Covering Wisconsin Navigator, provides information on free or low cost health insurance resources in Wisconsin.
Art World Public Relations
Maria Kucinski, from Greenough Public Relations & Communications, discusses strategies for artists looking for press coverage for their exhibitions or events.
Art Shipping and Storage
Katie Steffan of Guardian Fine Art Services offers tips for artists interested in safely shipping or storing their artwork.
Building Your Brand
Katie Mullen of Black Paint Studios discusses how artists can build a brand identity.
Covid-19 Resources
In March of 2020, gener8tor Art launched an initiative to help Wisconsin artists access financial resources intended to provide emergency aid and funding to small businesses.
WEDC We're All In Grant
The Wisconsin Tomorrow Small Business Recovery Grant program will award $420 million to small businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The program is intended to support businesses who are hardest hit by the pandemic and are key to Wisconsin making a strong recovery. The program is administered by the Wisconsin Department of Revenue (DOR) in collaboration with the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) and is funded with money received from the federal government through the American Rescue Plan Act.
More information regarding the grant can be found here.
For specific questions regarding the We’re All In Small Business Grant, please contact the Department of Revenue at 608.266.2772.
Art Collector Resources
Collecting art can be overwhelming, scary and unnecessarily difficult. gener8tor Art seeks to demystify the art collecting process, and cultivate new art collectors to support artists. The art collector resources consist of several webinars on the art market, with topics including buying art as an investment, art collecting strategies, tips for supporting local artists and art communities, and how to support the values of social justice and equity within an art collection.
An Introduction to the Art Market
Each webinar will be led by a speaker that explains different aspects of the art market or varied collecting strategies. In addition to webinars, participants in the series will also benefit from artist and gallery talks, where they can learn more about specific artists and gain opportunities to begin collecting their work.
The goal of this program is to educate potential art collectors about how to collect art responsibly, as well as to provide art collectors with the tools to build collections that have social impact and reflect their values. This series encourages collectors to support their local art communities by getting to know local artists, and facilitating the buying of art directly from artists, or local galleries. This program is intended for individuals who are new to art collecting, or experienced art collectors who are interested in developing their art collecting strategies.
Art Collection and Social Activism
John Riepenhoff, the director of the Green Gallery, and LaNia Sproles, a Milwaukee based artist, activist and curator, discuss the benefit exhibition I’ll Make You Sorry, cohosted by the Green Gallery and gener8tor Art. They discuss art curating and art collecting as a form of social activism.
Studio Visits
Art advisor and curator, Kelly Schroer talks about studio visits, proper studio visit etiquette, and why studio visits are important for artists and art collectors.
Buying at Art Auctions
Sara Mulloy, from Hindman Auctions, provides details about how to buy art through auction houses.
After the Purchase: A guide to art care expenses for collectors.
Katie Steffan from Guardian Fine Art Services speaks about the expenses associated with properly maintaining and caring for an art collection.
Past gener8tor Art Showcases
2021 gener8tor Art Virtual Showcase
The gener8tor Art Showcase is a virtual celebration of the 2021 gener8tor Art recipients: Hope Wang, Phoenix Brown, LaNia Sproles and Jessica Harvey. The artists will virtually present their work, showcase their recent projects and discuss their experience participating in the gener8tor Art accelerator program.
Phoenix Brown uses painting, printmaking and drawing to highlight dialogues around Black feminism, personal narrative and pop culture. She uses diverse mediums and methods of making to confront western art history’s portrayal of nature, still life, and the Black female body.
Jessica Harvey uses photography, video, sound, archival resources and objects constructed from everyday materials to create images and installations that focus on memory and place, with a particular emphasis on the role of women in personal or familial histories. Through humor and tragedy, Harvey creates a new way of re-evaluating life, death and the mythology of our own history.
LaNia Sproles uses printmaking, drawing and collage to interwork philosophies of self-perception, queer and feminist theories, and inherent racial dogmas. Her work focuses on the black femme body as a location of trauma and compromised autonomy, while the figures in her work act as a reclamation of space as a queer Person Of Color.
Hope Wang specializes in weaving, screen-printing, painting and photography to create trompe l'oeil documentations of sites of industrial labour, including building facades that have been eroded, redacted or defaced. By focusing on these architectural “scars,” Wang explores how people form complicated relationships with the structures of their daily lives.
2020 gener8tor Art Virtual Showcase
The four artists who just completed this year’s program present their work and speak about how the Fellowship.art accelerator program impacted their artistic practice.
Tyanna Buie uses printmaking, sculpture and installations as a form of both narrative and non-narrative storytelling as Buie examines her personal and family histories. Through family memorabilia and documents sourced from family members, Buie revisits and revives previous impressions from past events.
Le’Andra LeSeur’s work explores how black, female identity is informed by the effects of regulated systems of oppression. Through visual media, installations and performances, LeSeur reclaims and dismantles stereotypes surrounding black identity.
Dakota Mace takes a contemporary approach to Diné (Navajo) weaving and beadwork. Mace’s work focuses on re-interpreting the symbolic abstractions of Diné creation stories, cosmologies and social structures, using a combination of traditional and non-traditional materials and techniques.
Open Kitchen is a Milwaukee-based art collective founded by Rudy Medina and Alyx Christensen, in partnership with Jean Yoon and Alan Medina. Open Kitchen stages events, installations, and a residency program that engages the public in critical cross-cultural conversations on food, identity and ecology.
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