Creative Chicago Expo Consult-a-thon
Sign up for your own personal consulting session
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Meet one-on-one with experts in marketing, strategic planning, legal and accounting issues, and career coaching in all art disciplines. Sign up in advance online for a 20 minute appointment for only $10. (Limited to 3 appointments per person.)
Consult-a-thon will let you get feedback on a grant proposal from a funder, improve your website with advice from a marketing strategist, get tips from a casting director on successful auditioning, have your portfolio reviewed by curators and galleriests. Or talk board development and strategic planning with experts in the field.
Participating consultants are listed below. Learn more about them by clicking these links:
April 4 Morning Appointments and Consultant Bios
April 4 Afternoon Appointments and Consultant Bios
Creative Chicago Expo Consultants:
Dance:
Ginger Farley, Chicago Dancemakers Forum
Literary Arts:
Danielle Chapman, Department of Cultural Affairs
Sarah Dodson, MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine
Music:
David Chavez, Uncommon Ground
Dylan Rice, Navy Pier/MPEA and Dylan Rice Band
Theater:
Erica Daniels, Steppenwolf Theatre Co.
Marj Halperin, Marj Halperin Consulting
Dawn Helsing
Cree Rankin, Court Theatre
Timothy David Rey, Performer
Adam Thurman, Mission Paradox/Court Theater
Accounting & Finance:
Susan Budak, Illinois CPA Society
Toni Diprizio, Illinois CPA Society
Cliff Shapiro, Illinois CPA Society
Business/Organization Development:
Rosa Escareno, Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection
Debra Natanshon, The Center for What Works
Virginia Newman, SCORE Chicago
Jennifer Novak, Wolf Brown
Una Pipic, Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center
Bill Rattner, Lawyers for the Creative Arts
Career Coaching:
Heather Anderson, Executive Service Corps of Chicago
David Crow, SCORE Chicago
Bob Houston, Executive Service Corps of Chicago
Marshall Jacobson, Executive Service Corps of Chicago
Bob Matthei, Executive Service Corps of Chicago
Don Nylin, Executive Service Corps of Chicago
Norman Patinkin, SCORE Chicago
Janet Carl Smith, Department of Cultural Affairs
Brian Stinton, SCORE Chicago
Alison Zehr, Independent Consultant
Grants:
Amy Gunderson, Department of Cultural Affairs Grants
Allison Holton, Department of Cultural Affairs Development Office
Visual Arts:
Susan Aurinko, FLATFILE galleries
Britton Bertran, CAR - Artist Story Editor
Alpha Bruton, CAR - Community Outreach
Stacie Johnson, CAR- Visual Arts Researcher
Lee Kelley, Department of Cultural Affairs - Public Art
Greg Knight, Department of Cultural Affairs - Exhibitions
Nathan Mason, Department of Cultural Affairs - Special Projects