In an effort to provide students in the Lamar Dodd School of Art and the Hugh Hodgson School of Music with comprehensive and specialized career support, the Arts Career and Entrepreneurship Space (ACES) was initiated in the Fall Semester of 2018. The shared office in the Lamar Dodd School of Art serves as a space where students can come to seek assistance in identifying professional objectives, building career skills, locating opportunities, preparing job application materials, and finding internships. Under the direction of Mark Mobley and Tif Sigfrids, ACES has also launched a series of visiting talks with graphic designers, artists working in New York and Los Angeles, directors of non-profit spaces, composers, performers, and book designers as a way of exposing students to the variety of career possibilities relevant to their course of study.

On January 18th, from 10 – 3 PM, in the first floor atrium of The Lamar Dodd School of Art, ACES will host an event called Arts Career Entrepreneurship Day that will give students the opportunity to interface with professionals from various creative backgrounds. This inaugural event will focus on Visual Art and Music and their intersection. Themes that will be explored in a series of panel discussion with visiting professionals will include finding a job after graduation, creating a career path, starting and managing your own business, and many others. The diverse group of specialists will meet one on one with students to do portfolio, CV, and resume reviews. This unique opportunity for students from the different schools to hear topics discussed from a variety of viewpoints will inspire them to utilize their distinctly creative abilities to approach the often times daunting topic of career.

Panel Schedule:

10:00 – 10:30 Rebecca Wood (Artist, ceramicist, owner of R. Wood Studio)
10:30 – 11:00 Mary Carlson (New Museum NYC, UGA Art History Alumni)
11:00 – 12:00 Lance Ledbetter and Art Rosenbaum (Dust to Digital Records)
12:00 – 12:30 Lunch and performance by The Moonshine Music
12:30 – 1:30 Adrianne Rubenstein (CANADA NYC) and Ridley Howard (Howard’s Athens in conversation
1:30 – 2:00 David Barbe (Musician and owner of Chase Park Trasduction Studio)
2:00 – 3:00 Daniel Fuller (Curator Atlanta Contemporary) and Phillip March Jones (co- curator of Atlanta Biennieal and founder of Institute of 193 Lexingtion KY and NYC)
3:00 Pierre Ruhe (Co-founder of ArtsATL)

Visiting creative professionals include:

Adrianne Rubenstein (Artist and Director of CANADA Gallery NYC), Rebecca Wood (Founder of R. Wood Studio, Artist and UGA Alumni), David Barbe (Musician, Founder of Chase Park Transduction Studio Athens, Georgia, Director of Music Business Certificate Program), Ridley Howard (Artist, Director of Howard's, Athens), 106 Green (New York), and UGA Alumni Lance Ledbetter (Founder of Dust to Digital Records), Art Rosenbaum (Artist, Musicologist, Former UGA Professor), Mary Carlson (New Museum NYC, UGA Alumni), Daniel Fuller (Curator Atlanta Contemporary), Pierre Ruhe (Co-founder of ArtsATL), and Phillip March Jones (Founder Institute 193, Lexington, KY and NYC)