Business for Artists Symposium

General Information

The Business for Artists symposium will offer nine different workshops that focus on the development of practical business and career skills for artists, featuring local speakers from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), College of the Canyons, and The Masters University, as well as accomplished artists from the Los Angeles area. Our speakers come from a diverse set of backgrounds and arts disciplines such as film, fine arts, and music, representing the talent of arts and entertainment that define both Santa Clarita and Los Angeles. Whether you are an emerging artist that is looking to get their foot into the field, or a mid-career artist that is looking to be more in-tune with the world of social media and digital marketing, the Business for Artists Symposium is the perfect opportunity to learn valuable skills and expand your creative network.

Admission to the event is $35, which includes a continental breakfast and lunch. Check-in begins at 8:30 AM. The conference will be split into three sessions with three different workshops per session, covering business, career, and professional development topics for various arts disciplines.

Keynote Speaker - David Rosenboom

David Rosenboom is a multifaceted composer-performer, interdisciplinary artist, author and educator known as a pioneer in American experimental music. His multi-disciplinary, post-genre composition and performance has traversed ideas about spontaneously evolving musical forms, languages for improvisation, new techniques in scoring, cross-cultural and large-form collaborations, performance art and literature, interactive multi-media and new instrument technologies, generative algorithmic systems, art-science research and philosophy and extended musical interface with the human nervous system. A feature article in The Wire magazine about his life and work begins, “Biofeedback, intelligence swarms, solar vibrations and generative opera are among the utopian possibilities proposed by US composer David Rosenboom during 50 years of navigating new frontiers of music and technology.” (Cowley, J., The Wire, September, 2014)

Rosenboom was Dean of The Herb Alpert School of Music at California Institute of the Arts from 1990 through 2020, where he now holds the Roy E. Disney Family Chair in Musical Composition. Prior position highlights include: Richard Seaver Distinguished Chair in Music, CalArts; Darius Milhaud Professor of Music, Mills College; founding music and interdisciplinary professor, York University (Toronto); Artistic Coordinator, Electric Circus (New York); and Creative Associate, Center for Creative and Performing Arts, State University of New York (Buffalo). He regularly performs and speaks in international venues, and his work is widely recorded and published. During his fifty-year retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New York Times referred to him as an “avatar of experimental music.” (Tommasini, A., New York Times,24 May 2015). davidrosenboom.com

Speaker Lineup

SESSION A - 3 session choices

• Visual: Edgar Arceneaux
• Music: Scott "Sourdough" Power
• Film: Frederick Thornton

SESSION B - 3 session choices

• Visual: Roman Jaster
• Music: Kellie Cunningham
• Film: Liz Manashil

SESSION C - 3 session choices

• Speakers TBD

Host or Publisher City of Santa Clarita