News + Events
2024 Conference: Find Your Tribe
Pedagogy. Research. Community. Practice.
The Board is happy to announce our first in-person SAEE conference since before the pandemic will be hosted by North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) March 22-23, 2024.
More information coming soon.
2021 Video Salon Series
For fall 2021, we are thinking differently about how we interact. In this spirit, we are announcing a proposal call for a NEW Video Salon Series. This peer-reviewed series of ten 25-minute videos will debut on our new community platform (watch for more information about this soon!) on November 8th and run through November 19th, 2021.
Past Webinars
Webinar: Crafting an Arts Entrepreneurship Course for Visual Artists, Artisans, and Designers
Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Time: 10:00-11:00 am EST
Presenter: Jennifer Reis, Creative entrepreneur, Artist, Educator (University of North Carolina-Greensboro), and Gallery director
Description: This webinar will serve faculty new to (or struggling to provide) arts entrepreneurship curriculum for students seeking to be visual artists, artisans, designers – in general “makers” rather than “performers”. The webinar will also provide a blueprint for a class (which can be taught to performing artists) taking students from venture inventory and analysis to launch/market within a semester. The course design embeds Design Thinking and Lean Startup principles as well as toolkit skills like pricing, packaging, and digital marketing basics.
Webinar: Crisis Management Strategy & Plan for Independent Artists
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Time: 1:30-2:30 pm EST
Presenter: Dr. Gary Beckman, Director of Entrepreneurial Studies in the Arts, North Carolina State University
Description: While we are all enduring this COVID-19 crisis, it is not surprising that artists, arts businesses and entrepreneurs alike are concerned about their venture's stability–if not outright survival. Frequently used in larger organizations, crisis management plans are a typical part of the administrative planning portfolio. However, independent artists and small arts businesses are not trained, nor have even the basic tools to construct such a plan for their ventures. This webinar introduces two tools specifically designed to help existing small arts businesses and emerging arts entrepreneurs create both a crisis management strategy and plan for not only this novel crisis but the more traditional “crises” arts ventures encounter.
Webinar: Music and Technology – An entrepreneurial journey (presented by California Lutheran University)
Date: Monday, April 27, 2020
Time: 8:00 pm EST
Presenters: Marcus Ryle and Susan Wolf, Founders of Line 6
Description: Susan Wolf and Marcus Ryle are the co-founders of Line 6, a company that makes musical instrument technology products for guitarists. Their journey began with a shared love of music and evolved into the creation of a leading international brand with hundreds of employees and millions of customers. Join in to learn...
How they transitioned from consultants to entrepreneurs
How they built a company culture that fostered innovation
The pros and cons of venture funding
How to truly listen to customers
Acquisition of additional brands and technology
How they sold their company to Yamaha Corporation