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keshet ideas & innovation community

Ideas & Innnovation Community

The Keshet Ideas & Innovation Community (KIIC) champions the value of the artist and the arts economy.

Through a range of residency programs, makerspace resources, and professional development access in both craft and infrastructure, Keshet supports performing artists and arts organizations at multiple stages within their careers and organizational development.

Keshet offers free arts business classes for arts entrepreneurs focusing on topics such as Grant Writing, Marketing & Branding, Financial Management, Intellectual Property Law, and more.

Residency and presenting programs include the Keshet Makers Space Experience, Presenting Voices Series, Choreographers’ Showcases, and Hear Here Festival, supporting and connecting artists locally and globally, providing rehearsal and performance space, peer support, and business mentorship.

Why use the term “arts entrepreneur” instead of “artist” or “company/organization”?

KIIC supports the whole artist and the holistic business endeavor of making a living as
an artist. We know YOU know your art. We are here to help with the business aspects
and resources needed for developing, supporting, and sustaining your art.
(P.S. For any entrepreneur to flourish, they need creativity and a spirit of risk-
taking…and artists already do that! So, if you haven’t yet considered yourself an arts
entrepreneur, you are already doing the entrepreneurship work! Good job already!)

How to pronounce KIIC?

KICK  (just like “I’m an artist and I kick some *&%^”)

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KIIC Events & Workshops

Artist Opportunities / KIIC Programs

Makers Space Experience

10-day residency cohort periods in which dancemakers have access to daily rehearsal space, technique classes, business training, and peer support as they develop new work. Housing is provided.

 

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Choreographers' Showcases

Open, non-juried showcases for choreographers of all ages, all abilities, and at any point within their career as an artist. Choreographers are selected for the showcase on a first come/first booked basis. Each choreographer receives a 1 hour tech time for their piece, in addition to a final run through with the entire cast. Each showcase is unique, resulting in a dynamic event highlighting local, regional, and national choreographers presenting new works, restaged works, and works-in-progress.

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Dance Education/ Open Classes

Community classes and company classes are taught by Keshet faculty; Master classes are taught by visiting artists.

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Presenting Voices Series

Community engaged presenting customized to the needs and focus areas of each artist, project, and target audience/s. As a presenter, Keshet focuses on durational relationship building; between Keshet and the presented artist/company, as well as between the artist/company and the New Mexico community.

Hear Here Festival

Similar to the concept of the 48-hour Film Festival, the Hear Here Festival celebrates the talent of local artists bringing dynamic, original, collaborative work to fruition in a concentrated period of time with a culminating event premiering and celebrating these new creations. Artists are provided with rehearsal and performance space to create and present the new work, arts business workshops via a pre and post festival business workshop series, and a $1,000 stipend for the Hear Here Festival experience.

 

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Business Education/ Open Workshops

Throughout the year, KIIC offers arts business workshops on a wide range of topics for Arts Entrepreneurs taught by Keshet faculty, local business educators, and visiting guest instructors.

All KIIC Workshops are offered free of charge.

Most KIIC Workshops are applicable to artists in any/all disciplines/genres, however, occasionally some workshops are specific to a particular discipline.  When this is the case, you’ll be able to tell (i.e. working with a gallery for visual artists; independent publishing for writers; etc)

Feedback and continued evolution of the KIIC Program

KIIC is a living, breathing, and evolving program (since we are living, breathing, evolving artists and arts organizations)!

What are you missing as an arts entrepreneur?  How can we help?  Please keep us informed of your ideas, needs, challenges, successes, etc!  Info@KeshetArts.org.
Thank you!

Don’t Starve!  Make Art!

Testimonials

“I came because I didn’t know anything about how to do this, but by the time I left I thought ‘Oh hell, I can do that!”
— Designer & Workshop Participant

“For an hour and half there was a lot of useful information packed in. It provided focus and some goals to better use social media for growing my business.”
– Independent Artist & Workshop Participant

“I’ve sent out one press release and, thanks to the KIIC workshops on those little jewels, I am totally delighted with the results!”
— Writer & Workshop Participant

Special Thanks

Thank you to The City of Albuquerque and the Meow Wolf Foundation for their support of the 2024 Keshet Ideas and Innovation Community programming 

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