Social | January 17 #ArtistHotline Guest Chat: New Year, New Budgets
Artists, use the hashtag #ArtistHotline between 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST on Twitter to get advice on this seemingly daunting topic!
Crafting a budget may feel intimidating, but this month’s #ArtistHotline Guest Chat is here to arm you with the resources you need! A successful budget can help you progress by leaps and bounds towards accomplishing your goals. So we’re taking some time to discuss the ins-and-outs of creating one, as well as some general budgeting best practices.
As part of the schedule for the January installment of #ArtistHotline, we’ll host a “New Year, New Budgets″ Guest Chat from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST. We’ll hear from two community builders and arts administrators: playwright and performance artist Aaron Landsman and writer and content strategist Eleanor Whitney.
We’ll tackle questions like:
- When creating a budget for a project, how do I estimate future expenses with as much accuracy as possible? (Read this guide on Building a Project Budget for a preview!)
- What are some tips for stretching a budget, either for my personal life or for my arts career?
- How often should I reassess and revise a budget?
- Where can I gain financial literacy skills as an artist?
An Action-Packed #ArtistHotline Agenda
But wait, there’s more! #ArtistHotline takes place live on Twitter from 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM EST. Warm up your tweeting skills from 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM EST, when NYFA staff, partnering organizations, and individual artists will discuss a range of arts career topics during the #ArtistHotline Open Chat. Then, from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST, Landsman and Whitney will tackle budgeting during the Guest Chat. For the last hour of the day, from 3:00 PM EST – 4:00 PM EST, get job hunting tips from Molly Martin, Account Manager – NYFA Classifieds, during the “Art of the Job Hunt” Staff Q&A.
No matter whether you’re participing in the Open Chat, Guest Chat, the Staff Q&A, or, we hope, all of the above: just use the hashtag #ArtistHotline in each tweet to participate!
Guest Chat Bios
Aaron Landsman makes live theatrical performances and other events. His work includes site-specific productions in the kinds of places where people perform their lives: homes, offices, buses, and meeting rooms, as well as more traditionally staged works. He is a 2017-2018 Guggenheim Fellow in Theater, a former Princeton Arts Fellow and current Visiting Associate Professor at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts. His work has been funded by National Performance Network, New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Theater Project, MAP Fund, and the Jerome Foundation, among others. He co-created and teaches the Creative Capital Professional Development Program’s core weekend and daylong workshops. Learn more about Landsman at www.thinaar.com.
Find Landsman tweeting @thinaar.
Eleanor Whitney is a writer, editor, community builder, and content strategist living in Brooklyn. She is the author of Grow, a practical field guide for managing your creative business, and has led business planning and fundraising workshops for artists and entrepreneurs across the country. She holds a Master’s in Public Administration and is currently the Managing Editor for All Hands, a publication about life at work from Managed by Q. A former Program Officer for NYFA’s Fiscal Sponsorship program, she wants to help all artists stop worrying and love making budgets. Learn more about Whitney on LinkedIn.
Find Whitney tweeting @killerfemme.
Inspired by the NYFA Source Hotline, #ArtistHotline is an initiative dedicated to creating an ongoing online conversation around the professional side of artistic practice. #ArtistHotline occurs on the third Wednesday of each month on Twitter. Our goal is to help artists discover the resources needed, online and off, to develop sustainable careers.
This initiative is supported by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation.
Images, from top: Michelle A. Boulé (Fellow in Choreography ‘16); courtesy Aaron Landsman, photo by Paula Court; courtesy Eleanor Whitney
