Creative Conversations

2018 Maryland Regional Arts Institutes - Collaborative Conversation and Professional Development

August 01, 2018

A series of evenings for artists, arts organizations, arts leaders and arts supporters to gather for collaborative discussion and professional development.

Partners: Maryland State Arts Council, Maryland Citizens for the Arts, Maryland Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Maryland Nonprofits, and Maryland State Department of Education.

The agenda for the sessions is as follows:

Location:	Date:
Frederick @ The Delaplaine Arts Center	September 13
Havre de Grace @ The Cultural Ctr at Hdg Opera House	September 17
Baltimore @ Creative Alliance	September 20
Salisbury @The Ward Museum of Waterfowl Art	September 24
Leonardtown @ Leonardtown Town Hall	September 27
Annapolis @ Annapolis Shakespeare Company	October 1
Frostburg @ City Place	October 4

All meetings will be held in the evening from 6-9pm except Leonardtown which will be from 4-7pm at 22670 Washington Street.

Please RSVP to Michele Hayes at michele.hayes@maryland.gov.

Hear Dana Parsons, MSAC Director of Grants and Professional Development, chat with Bob Miller of WFMD Radio in Frederick.

Fall Institutes PowerPoint (PPT)

Toolkits

Maryland Citizens For The Arts

Advocacy information: http://mdarts.org/advocacytoolkit/
Sign up to be an MCA e-advocate:https://www.votervoice.net/MDARTS/register
Please consider your membership with MCA: http://mdarts.org/md-arts-community/members/

Maryland Volunteer Lawyers For The Arts

Additional MVLA Resource Links:

Copyright FAQ Videos by New Media Rights: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD1071E5E4FD66B73
Copyright FAQ from the United States Copyright Office: https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/index.html
Creative Commons Digital Licenses: https://creativecommons.org/
Codes of Best Practices in Fair Use from the Center for Media and Social Impact at American University: http://cmsimpact.org/codes-of-best-practices/
US Patent and Trademark Office: www.uspto.gov
Trademark Overview from Harvard Law School: https://cyber.harvard.edu/metaschool/fisher/domain/tm.htm
Artpreneur: http://artpreneur.org/
Estate Planning for Artists by the Joan Mitchell Foundation (and Massachusetts' VLA): http://artsandbusinesscouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/call-estate-print-01-20-15.pdf
Fractured Atlas for Fiscal Sponsorship and other resources: www.fracturedatlas.org
Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service (for civil issues that MdVLA may not be able to handle like Bankruptcy): www.mvls.org
Community Law Center (provides legal help for neighborhood associations and non-profit organizations (we also help with arts non-profit organizations, but CLC is a good resource that we work with sometimes): www.communitylaw.org
Maryland Legal Aid (for more traditional pro bono legal services like consumer protection, landlord/tenant (residential), and expungement): www.mdlab.org
ACLU of Maryland (for legal issues affecting civil liberties): www.aclu-md.org

Maryland NonProfits

Free Tools and Resources from Maryland Nonprofits: https://marylandnonprofits.org/Nonprofit-Resources/Documents-References/articleType/CategoryView/categoryId/19