Boost Your Artistic Career:
Free Artist INC Express Workshop
Comes to The Medium in Downtown Springdale September 19 – 20
Springdale, AR – Artist INC Express, a career development program of Mid-America Arts Alliance, has partnered with CACHE to help artists, of any discipline, develop the building blocks for a thriving and enduring arts practice.
Led by a team of experienced, working artists, this nine-hour, hands-on workshop helps artists address specific needs and challenges that artists face throughout their careers. Through discussions, activities, and hands-on exercises, artist-facilitators, and a new network of peer artists, will help participating artists set goals for their practice, write about their work, and build a personal brand.
Artist INC Express is a slimmed down, yet still highly active, version of the popular eight-week Artist INC program [LINK], which has been completed by more than 2,000 artists since 2009. Artist INC Express explores those same core concepts of how to build a lasting arts practice in a shorter, more flexible format, to help reach a broader audience of artists.
Artist INC Express is not your standard classroom experience. If you sign on for Artist INC Express, you are asked to commit to the entire nine-hour workshop, as exercises build on one another and as participants develop deep relationships with their fellow artists over the three sessions. Be ready to participate throughout in group discussions, hands-on exercises, and small group work.
Right away, Artist INC Express activates a network of artists in your community, leading to more peer-to-peer resource sharing, collaborations, and support long after the workshop concludes.
So worth it. I feel so empowered, seen, supported, hopeful and ready to launch what I learned. The difference in me from before to after is palpable.
– Artist INC program participant
Interested artists can learn more and register here. The priority deadline to receive the handbook in advance is Thursday, September 17 at 5pm.
The program is free and open to artists of all disciplines and skill levels.
Dates
Day 1: Saturday, September 19, 2026 from 10:00am-3:00pm CDT
Day 2: Sunday, September 20, 2026 from 12:00pm-5:00pm CDT
Location
The Medium, 214 S. Main St., Springdale, AR 72756
Now in its fifteenth year, Artist INC has been completed by more than 2,000 artists. Artist INC is supported in part by grants from the Windgate Foundation, the Hallmark Corporate Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Learn more about Artist INC at www.artistinc.art.
About Mid-America Arts Alliance
Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA) strengthens and supports artists, cultural organizations, and communities throughout Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, and beyond. To learn more about M-AAA grants, programs, exhibitions, and fellowships, visit www.maaa.org and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn.
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