DRAW: Managing Time + Money | Arts + Literature Laboratory | Madison Contemporary Arts Center

DRAW: Managing Time + Money

Managing your time and finances properly is essential to building a viable art career. As a full-time artist and business owner, Jenie Gao will share insights on how to manage multiple project timelines, improve your processes, and focus your time and efforts to produce impactful work. The workshop will also cover how to get a handle on your finances and get comfortable talking about money, which will enable you to pursue the projects that are meaningful and aligned with your practice.

This is part of the DRAW: Developing Resiliency in Artists + Writers series made possible with funding from the Madison Arts Commission. 

Jenie Gao

Jenie Gao is an artist specializing in woodcuts, ink drawings, and allegorical storytelling. Her work across industries has made her a firm believer in different disciplines working together to inform and help one another. Art is nothing without dialogue and inseparable from culture and the values that define it.

Jenie received her BFA in Printmaking/Drawing from Washington University in St. Louis. Following her studies, Jenie worked in education and nonprofit before going into commercial printing and the pursuit of a career in lean manufacturing: the reduction of waste in business operations.

In the past year, Jenie left her job at her former company to pursue her artwork. She spent the beginning of 2015 traveling to pursue two art residencies in Argentina and Chile, and has now returned to Madison with new work and new stories that challenge the way we see ourselves and the world around us, and therefore invite us to make a difference. She continues to consult in... Read More

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Arts + Literature Laboratory is located at 111 S. Livingston Street #100, Madison, Wisconsin, 53703.

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