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Artist INC Cares:
A Four-Part Series on Finding Financial Help
Learn what financial relief is available to you as an artist, how to navigate the system and what actions you can take to help stabilize your finances.

For the first time, artists as sole proprietors and the self-employed are included in many of the relief packages, loan programs, and unemployment benefits, but the language of the documents can make it difficult for artists and micro-businesses to navigate. With the large volume of information currently being disseminated, translating and distilling that information in a way that makes it understandable and actionable for artists is critical.

Artist & Arts and Business Strategist, Chris Dahlquist, will lead a series of four webinars. She will share the opportunities that are available to artists and the steps they must quickly take to be able to navigate the relief being offered, as well as to help create a strategy to move forward in both the short and long term.


Join us for the first webinar:


1.     What We Know Today (Sunday, April 5, 10 am CST)
Arts Business Strategist, Chris Dahlquist and Artist INC Founder, Diane Scott will have a conversation based on what we know today.

  • Explain financial opportunities currently available and the appropriateness of each for the artist cohort and how those options might work together.
  • What to look for (and be cautious of) in each offering (i.e., payback schedule, interest rates, etc.).
  • Actions to take today.


2.     Questions / Ask the Experts (Wednesday, April 8, 10 am CST)

  • Chris Dahlquist will moderate a conversation with a banker and tax accountant about the options for individual artists, small businesses and nonprofits.
  • The expert panel will offer guidelines and field questions from artists.
  • What actions to take this week.


3.     What’s Working / What’s Not (Wednesday, April 15, 10 am CST)
     
  • Artists share their personal experience going through the loan process.
  • Actions to take this week.


4.     What’s Next? Creating a Strategy to Move Forward (Wednesday, April 22, 10 am CST)

  • Reviewing the Portfolio Career, how to truly diversify your income.
  • What parts of the portfolio career are durable and can be emphasized during this time?
  • Actions to take this week.
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Using curriculum development, workshops, lectures, community building and one-on-one mentoring, Chris Dahlquist has worked with hundreds of individual artists of all disciplines to develop strategies and business skills to support their practices.

Dahlquist works with municipalities, arts organizations, and businesses to develop strategies, programs, and policy to support the individual artist within the larger community. Dahlquist has partnered with the City of Kansas City, MO, the Kansas City Economic Development Council and AltCap: Alternative Capital for Community Impact to develop and launch the first artist-centered micro-lending program in the country. Most recently, she developed the Creative Economy Initiative for Bravo Greater Des Moines, a comprehensive action plan for the support of individual artists living and working in the Des Moines area.

Dahlquist exhibits in a variety of traditional and non-traditional settings including art galleries, art fairs, and large-scale public installations. Her works are in hundreds of individual, corporate and civic collections. In addition to many awards in top Juried Art Festivals around the country, Dahlquist has been awarded an Inspiration Grant from the Metropolitan Kansas City Arts Council and a Development Grant from the Mid-America Art Alliance. Dahlquist is represented by Sager Braudis Gallery in Columbia, MO.