VDA Workshops.

VDA Workshops are free and/or low-cost capacity-building workshops for self-producing artists/musicians, arts organization staff, and event curators in all disciplines. Attendees learn new skills, gain new resources, and meet and connect with other local artists.
Workshop Catalog
annual project planning
  • - Identify your goals for the upcoming year and break them into achievable tasks
  • - Plot your tasks on a timeline or calendar for the upcoming year
  • - Create a plan to keep yourself accountable
​fundraising beyond grants
  • Learn about six different categories of fundraising (including, but not primarily, grants)
  • Brainstorm more than a hundred methods for resourcing your work
  • Create a simple budget that will help guide your fundraising choices ​
grant writing - beginner
  • Learn the language and process of grant writing
  • Identify tools you can use to discover funding opportunities
  • Read actual grant proposals to identify key proposal components
grant writing - ​INTERMEDIATE ​
  • Review aspects of a good grant proposal
  • Practice writing an actual grant
  • Receive extensive feedback on your completed proposal
​taxes for artists
  • Learn about which expenses you can deduct on your taxes
  • Find out how and when to send out 1099s
  • Get your individual questions answered

budgets & finance for artists
  • Learn why and how to use budgets for personal and project use
  • Look at sample budgets and learn how to interpret the story behind the numbers
  • Create a simplified budget tailored to your goals for this year
​website design basics
  • Learn about different software and platforms you can use to design and host your website
  • Plan the basic building blocks of your website
  • Look at other artist websites to learn what aesthetic appeals to you​
​somatic practice for artists
​Facilitated by Lee Fogel of The Visioning Body
  • Connect with your body to support emotional well-being and clarity through all your badass work!
  • Learn to sustain your energy by following your body's needs and timing
  • Organically awaken to your creativity and visions by listening to your body and heightening sensory awareness
creating an artist statement
  • ​Brainstorm new ideas about your work and meet other artists
  • Develop an understanding about what makes a good artist statement 
  • Practice writing or editing your own statement
social media & marketing
  • Identify marketing techniques for building and keeping an audience
  • Talk about the advantages of using various social media channels
  • Troubleshoot issues with audience development that you may have had in the past
crowdfunding
  • Learn how to tell if crowdfunding is right for your project
  • Discover the pros and cons of  crowdfunding platforms
  • Hear from a panel of artists who have run successful crowdfunding campaigns​
business & organizing models for artists
  • Discuss the pros and cons of various organizational structures; pool experiences and get new ideas
  • Clarify your mission to determine the structure that best suits your practice
  • Sole-proprietor, LLC, 501(c)3: understand the structures and how your projects fit into them

The Rotunda Workshops

**ALL VDA / ROTUNDA WORKSHOPS ARE NOW ONLINE***
All workshops in the series are FREE and OPEN to the public. However, you must pre-register to receive a link to the webinar.  Scroll down for links to each event. 
Our panel discussion on Art & Political Movements: Focus on Philly (2020 season) is available to view here. 

2021 Workshops

***All workshops will be held online until further notice.***


Monday, January 25 - Fundraising for Artists & Arts Organizations 
Facilitated by Brittany Campese

Monday, February 8 - Taxes for Artists
Facilitated by Tim White

Monday, March 8 - Intro to Arts Grants 
Facilitated by Tezarah Wilkins 

Monday, April 12 - Finances for Artists
Facilitated by River Nice of Be Intentional Financial

Monday, May 10 - Social Media & Marketing
Facilitated by Brittnie Knight

Monday, June 14 - Website Basics for Artists ​
Facilitated by Marria Nakhoda
“Thanks for having these sessions. I have been retired for five years, ...and these sessions are bringing me back to my GAME."  
--Vernoca, Workshop Attendee
I made a budget for this grant using the template and realized how incredibly useful the workshop I attended was! It made creating this program budget a breeze and I really felt like I understood how to do it to tell the story we were trying to convey in the grant. So YAY Culture Works workshops!
- Cara, "Creating a Project Budget" Workshop Attendee
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