Institute for Sustained Creativity
VIDEOS
WORKSHOPS:
“The Mechanics of Sustaining a Creative Life”
EXCERPTS:
Appearance before Arts Administrators
Colorado Creative Industries Summit
Crested Butte, CO (6/1/23) — Program of Events (PDF)
“Building a Sustainable & Creative Career in the Arts”
EXCERPTS:
1) University of California, San Diego & San Diego Community College (2/27/20)
2) Yale University (2/20/20)
Students & Faculty in Visual Arts, Theater, Music, History & Literature
VIDEO PROFILE OF SHARON LOUDEN AND ISC:
The New Yorker Brand Studio focused on her mentoring initiatives, models of generosity, and ISC. (2024)
Accompanying interview on The New Yorker can be viewed here.
VIDEO INTERVIEWS OF ARTISTS:
Gathering helpful and relevant information from dozens of artists around the country and abroad during Louden’s Conversation Book Tour in 2017-2018, the ISC was tasked with implementing and disseminating the suite of tools created by Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation’s ArtistsThrive! initiative.
Louden Studio also interviewed 34 artists on video from Laramie, WY, Clarksville, TN, Fairbanks, AK, Nottingham, United Kingdom, and many other places. Each participant was asked one question relevant to sustaining artists lives while talking about their personal experiences.
Sharon also consulted on the ArtistThrive! 2018 Summit Steering Committee and their Speakers Bureau in Berea, KY, August 2018.
Princess Simpson Rashid
Jacksonville, FL (2018)
Princess talks about her struggles and successes as a visual artist.
Azucena Trejo-Williams
Berea, KY (2018)
Question: "How do you make sure you have time to create and do you have a set time or build it into your calendar?"
Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova
Miami, FL (2018)
Leyden discusses his life as an artist living/working in Miami.
Asia Freeman
Anchorage, AK (2018)
Question: “What’s your tip or best way you retain a live/work balance? Do you struggle with it? And when do you know you’re lacking balance?”
To view all 34 artist interviews, please visit LiveSustain.org.
PAST ISC WORKSHOPS:
Wyoming Innovation Partnership (WIP) Workshop
Laramie, WY, December 2023
For more information, please visit WIP
Creative Capital “Needs-and-Wants” Workshop
Louden Studio, Brooklyn, NY, 2019
South Jersey Arts Council Professional Practice Workshop
Cumberland County College, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, 2018
For more information, please view this PDF
Collaborating on an Artist Thrive! Workshop
Western Neon School of Art, 2018