What’s It Really Worth? Pricing, Purpose, and Pay for Creativepreneurs

This professional development workshop supports artists and creativepreneurs—in building an authentic and sustainable art practice.
About this Event

Join nico w. okoro, founding CEO of The Building Fund, for this FREE workshop and in-depth conversation that explores:

• clarifying your personal values
• articulating the professional value of your work (commercial, community, educational)
• building the confidence to set fair prices for your work without undervaluing it
• learning the art of negotiation and compromise, and how to pivot where necessary
• naming your non-negotiables and protecting your core values and integrity

This professional development workshop supports artists and creativepreneurs—across disciplines and at all career stages—in building an authentic and sustainable art practice.

About nico w. okoro:

Over the past two decades, nico has worked both independently and as a nonprofit arts leader to drive cultural strategy and community engagement within museums and artist-founded nonprofits. A celebrated cultural strategist, curator, educator, and writer, nico works across sectors to build equitable representation within the canons of modern and contemporary art.

nico is the author of Museum Metamorphosis: Cultivating Change Through Cultural Citizenship (2022), which platforms critical perspectives from across the arts and culture ecosystem, offering tools to reshape cultural institutions into cooperative sites of collective impact and social change.

nico is a former Board Member of The Arts Council of Greater New Haven. In recent posts, she served as a visiting critic at the Yale School of Art (2021-2024); Inaugural Executive Director of NXTHVN (2019-20); Director of Public Programs and Community Engagement at the Studio Museum in Harlem (2014-19); Curatorial Director of Rush Arts Gallery (2007-10); and Curatorial Assistant at The Studio Museum in Harlem (2006-07). nico holds an MA in Creative & Cultural Entrepreneurship from Goldsmiths, University of London (2011), and a BA in Art-Semiotics from Brown University (2006).