What Makes The Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship™ Different?The Institute For Arts Entrepreneurship™ is a unique two year program open to actors, musicians, visual artists, dancers, writers, poets, film makers, photographers, the culinary arts and fashion designers. The mastery of your art form and a desire for artistic and financial independence is all you need to apply.
Uniquely, at The IAE, all artistic disciplines learn in class together how to create viable arts based enterprises. Our goal is to help you define and shape how best to use your talents to make a living in your medium and for the community you will serve. Our role is to teach you how to create and profit ethically from your artistry, as you become a leader in a niche market you uniquely can fill. Our hope is to help you remain a working artists in your field by helping you develop a niche business that will allow you to create the income stream you need to support your creative efforts for life.
Our System is Unique:
We believe that every single artist needs leadership strength and entrepreneurial vision to become a relevant meaningful full-time artistic contributor to society. While some schools, finally, are offering artists a class or two to learn why leadership strength and entrepreneurial vision are important in to their artistic careers, few, if any, offer you the opportunity to apply that knowledge into the development of a creative enterprise while you are still in school. There is no doubt our curriculum is unique. There is nothing quite like The IAE in American arts training.
Our System of Training is Mentor-Based:
Rather than teaching in a large lecture hall environment, you will work consistently in close proximity with your teachers who each are professional working arts entrepreneurs themselves. In between your monthly classroom schedule, you will be assigned to an faculty arts entrepreneur to help you on a as needed basis with the creation of your arts based business.
Our Focus on Experiential Learning Will Help You Develop Your Leadership and
Entrepreneurial Potential Into a Distinct Economic and Artistic Advantage:
The Institute For Arts Entrepreneurship™ believes strongly that it is not enough to sit in a classroom or learn from a textbook to build a creative enterprise. We want you to be an active participant in marrying your artistry to how you will use it to earn a living. To accomplish this, our two year program is offered in a non traditional format: 15 weekends a year plus 3 full weeks. We feel you can do some of your best academic work learning how to use the tools you learn in the classroom to artistically innovate outside of it.
In addition to your weekend classroom schedule, specific experiential learning pods we call LEAPS, will help you identify gaps in the marketplace and use your growing skills to develop your creativity into a business. Aristotle once said "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." Aristotle's philosophy is not all that dissimilar to how one develops as an artist--by doing. At IAE we utilize the strengths of experiential learning precisely because artists have been taught how to learn this way.
Why should artists become arts entrepreneurs?
Small businesses already play a major role in the economic landscape, accounting for half of the United States private gross domestic product and more than half of those employed in the U.S alone. More importantly, over the past decade, small firms have provided 60 to 80 percent of the new jobs in the economy, and according to a U.S. Bureau of the Census working paper, almost all of these new jobs stem from start-ups in the first two years of operations. There is simply no reason that the arts cannot be a vibrant part of the development of rebuilding the future of America, as they should be for all the value they hold.
"At IAE, by putting our students at the forefront of economic development through igniting their entrepreneurial imaginations to take flight, we are preparing the next generation of artists to change history and blaze a trail of emotional and financial success.""
-Lisa Canning, Executive Director
