The Arts Council's webinar on non-profit incorporation is now available on demand for free streaming. You can now view this 20 minute presentation at your leisure, as well as pause, rewind and fast forward.

• Alternatives to becoming 501c3
• When is the right time to incorporate
• How to incorporate
• Your responsibilities once you have incorporated

To view this webinar, please click here.

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This workshop is funded with support from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation  

You can now stream the Arts Council's Copyright webinar for free over your computer. Presented by ELLA Project Supervising Attorney Ashlye Keaton, this webinar is approximately 25 minutes and addresses:

• What is and what is not copyrightable.
• The importance of registering for copyright.
• The difference between copyright and trademark.
• The new online Copyright Registration system.
• Much more!

To view this webinar, please click here

Find this information helpful? Then please consider contributing!

This workshop is funded with support from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation  

You can now stream the Arts Council's Trademark webinar for free over your computer. Presented by ELLA Project Supervising Attorney Ashlye Keaton, this webinar is approximately 25 minutes and addresses:

• The difference between copyright and trademark
• Reasons for securing your trademark
• The difference between State and Federal Trademarks
• The Trademark registration process
• Trademark Infringement, and the legal remedies

To view this webinar, please click here

Find this information helpful? Then please consider contributing!

This workshop is funded with support from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation  

The Arts Council's latest webinar, Podcasting the Arts , is now available for free streaming via our website. The webinar runs roughly 15 minutes, and can be viewed by clicking here.

To supplement this webinar, please see this Basic Guide to RSS and Feeds, downloadable as a PDF.

Presented by Cole Bernstein and Gene Meneray of the Arts Council's Arts Business Program, the webinar covers how to create a podcast, how to distribute it, what other artists are doing with podcasts, and tips for production and recording.

This on demand webinar is funded with support from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation  

On April 15, 2009, the Arts Council's Lindsay Glatz, NOMA's Jim Mulvihill, and LeMieux Gallery's Christy Wood presented "Arts Marketing: Gallery and Organizations" to the Arts Council's audience. Topics addressed included how to approach galleries and museums, working with the media, the pros and cons of events ,and marketing with new media. Below are some audio highlights available for free streaming through our website!
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photo by J Chaffin, 2007

On January 17th, the Arts Council’s Gene Meneray moderated a sold -out discussion with artists Frank Relle, Heather Weathers, at the Palma Gallery as they discussed national art shows, the ins and outs of the New York scene, garnering publicity outside New Orleans, and developing a national marketing strategy.

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