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How to start a program in your area

Contact Ann Wiker at 410.404.3587 to help start a downtown art program in your area. She currently offers consulting services in the following areas:

  • How to attract, prescreen, and enter into contracts with local artists
  • How to market to building managers and business owners, to preview display space and to enter into contracts with venues
  • How to market to property managers and commercial real estate brokers to secure vacant storefronts as venues
  • How to locate funding sources and complete grant applications for funding
  • How to address liability issues
  • How to create creative window displays
  • How to facilitate lobby exhibits
  • How to transform vacant storefronts into exhibit space
  • How to network with developers, and private and corporate art collectors
  • How to network with arts organizations, business improvement districts, and funding organizations
  • How to manage financial transactions with artists including tax issues
  • How to maintain installation schedules
  • How to collaborate with artists on curating display spaces and promoting artwork
  • How to project time and financial expenditures in relation to the number of artists and venues that are participating