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# Workshops to teach artists, create networking skills
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/workshops-to-teach-artists-create-networking-skills/
- Published: 2004-09-30T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T05:14:27.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Business, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

It’s not what you know, it’s who you know. At the “Arts Tune Up” evening for individual artists, artists will have the chance to make contacts and learn business strategies. The evening is designed to put artists in contact with arts consultants, working artists, and administrators who can provide information and answer questions on a variety of topics, including marketing, fundraising, database and bulk mail basics, and self-producing.

There will be several tables set up with an arts expert/consultant located at each table. Each table discussion will last for 25 minutes. After 25 minutes, an announcement will be made, indicating that that session is over. People then rotate to another table with a topic they want to learn more about as the sessions repeat. There will be a series of five round-robin sessions of 25 minutes each.

Topics include fundraising, marketing, public relations, database and bulk mail basics, getting into galleries, introduction to public art, basics of incorporation, self-producing for performing artists, business training for artists and working in arts education.

While seasoned artists are welcome to attend, the information is geared more toward artists early in their careers and artists looking for some new ideas to help them with the “business” side of their work.

The event will be held Tuesday, Oct. 5, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, 1855 Main St. Free parking is available at 5:30 p.m.

The Arts Tune Up is sponsored by the cultural affairs division of the city of Santa Monica and the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, in collaboration with the Center for Cultural Innovation and the cultural affairs divisions of the cities of Glendale, Los Angeles, and Pasadena, and The Public Corporation for the Arts in Long Beach.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 30, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/093004.pdf?ref=smdp.com)