About Art: Business in Art Workshop.

From the 18th to the 22nd of June, Jill Waterman (arts management lecturer at Wits University) ran a business orientated workshop for a pre-selected group of emerging artists at The Bag Factory as a part of the About Art programme.

The artists, from Soweto, Orange Farm and Hillbrow, were taught basic internet and email skills, how to write a biography, create a business card, write a funding proposal and draw up a budget.

After an intense week of workshopping, the group attended a Mapp Seta dance production at Museum Africa (featuring the aboriginal group Descendents) as a case study of a production produced during a learnership programme to which some of the students may wish to apply.