Virtual community organizer wanted. Grow a thriving community on Facebook and throughout the social and virtual world. We’re building interactions between creative professionals actively pursuing the goal of thriving as working artists.
* RECRUIT: We need YOU to recruit and encourage individual art professionals to plug-in, connect, and participate on the basis of their entrepreneurship and career objectives. As the community grows, you’ll reach out to arts organization leaders and others who bring value to these interactions.
* DISSEMINATE: You’ll shoot for expert familiarity with our learning resources and programs, field questions, post excerpts, foment discussion, and concierge questions you can’t answer to the broader community and to our faculty.
* DISCERN: You’ll sense when to stand back and let the community talk, and when to nudge—when to provide the answer, and when to ask a better version of the question—when to offer a solution and when to instead suggest a resource—when to take a constructive comment at face value and when someone’s putting out smoke and drama instead of looking for light.
* BROADEN: You’ll concentrate 80% of your effort on Facebook, growing a Facebook group, but that’s just the anchor. The community is actually a broad ecosystem of small groups, arts councils, community initiatives, corporate execs interested in social mission and the arts, and of course ambitious artists running their own businesses.
We want to foment constructive conversations among visual artists (first-as the center of their industry) and art-industry professionals (secondarily) around economic empowerment, shaping the industry as a whole, and acquiring essential business skills to build a robust creative economy. There’s enough blather about the beauty and ornament of art, and quite enough people mindlessly sharing their portfolios. The world doesn’t need more of that—it needs artists who have the commitment to what it takes to thrive, or at least want to understand what it takes, to obtain that vision.
YOU are key to helping CHF connect the 20% who will make a difference for themselves and all of us, and to ensure they are supported.