Empowering working artists to see their vision through an entrepreneurial lens.
Periscope is a six-week intensive training opportunity hosted at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center (EC). Led by the EC’s Director of Education, along with break-out sessions facilitated with Nashville’s top arts professionals, Periscope gives artists the perspective and tools to organize, plan, and sustain their creative careers with the goal of preparing each artist to take their career to the next level.
The program is designed to be a transformative experience for each artist, sparking the moment when their career will really start to take off.
Training: 6 weeks of professional development training for working artists
Exchange: Share best practices with interdisciplinary peers through small group work
Mentorship: Each artist is paired one-on-one with a high-caliber mentor
Exposure: Year-round opportunities to celebrate the work of alumni artists, plus red-letter visibility at the culminating celebration, the Periscope Pitch Event in fall 2016
"The program, and its ensuing resources, have been aninvaluable funnelfor someone like myself whose brain is constantly churning out ideas. Periscope's team and my classmates provided parameters, and the opportunity to fine tune my artistic vision into a concrete action plan." -Lily Hansen http://www.wordofmouthconversations.com/
Periscope is a program of the Arts & Business Council,
