JCAL: The Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning

Studio LLC

Studio LLC teaches artists to regard their studio as a small business, identify their entrepreneurial and professional goals and create a long-term plan for accomplishing them.

The enrolled artists will meet monthly, except for the summer months from February 2011 to January 2012. Culminating STUDIO LLC in January 2012, all enrolled artists will be invited to a group show.

STUDIO LLC's seminar series began Wednesday, January 19th. The seminar series is open to all professional artists who want help identifying their professional goals and creating a long-term plan. Admission is $10/seminar payable at the door or in advance via our website.

• Wednesday, January 19, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
  Location: Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL), 161-04 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11432
  Tax Preparation for Emerging Artists - Susan Lee, CPA
  The seminar covers the fundamentals of financial issues, which artists are facing today, along with exploring tax terminologies, different forms to use, deductible items and more. Susan will respond to artists' questions.

• Wednesday, February 16, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
  Location: Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL), 161-04 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11432
  Collaboration
  Working with other people on an art project is recently seen as important and beneficial on many levels. JCAL invites BroLab, an artist collective, to the Studio LLC February Seminar. The group will present their experiences of collaboration along with the advantages and difficulties they found in working with other artists.

• Wednesday March 23, 2011, 7 pm
  Location: Jamaica Performing Arts Center (JPAC) 153-10 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11432
  Every Artist Insured: Health care and Health Care Reform in NYC - Renata Marinaro from the Actors Fund
  The Artist Health Insurance Resource Center (AHIRC) promotes full access to quality, affordable health care. Workshops focus on health care and health insurance options for artists and entertainers. The information is comprehensive and unbiased – no commercial or political sponsors. Workshop topics include: understanding health care reform, applying for government programs, finding affordable health insurance and health care, getting insured despite a pre-existing condition, and lowering the cost of medications. Q&A follows each workshop, plus individual consultations.

• Wednesday, April 20, 2011, 7-9 pm
  Location: Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL), 161-04 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11432
  Independent Curators - Jose Ruiz
  Mr. Ruiz, an independent curator, will lead an informal lecture and discussion around the role of the independent curator in contemporary art; he will discuss outlets, opportunities, and methodologies; and dissect specific relationship between the independent curator and artist. He will also illuminate background on past, recent, and current curatorial projects; as well as discuss the limitations and possibilities of the independent curator. He will also talk about his impression of the works by 2011 Studio LLC participants.

• Wednesday, May 18, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
  Location: Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL), 161-04 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11432
  Working with a Gallery - Katie Rashid , Director/Artist Liaison at the Andrea Rosen Gallery
  Rashid will present her experience working in galleries, how a program is formed, what services galleries offer to artists, as well as the pros and cons of working with a gallery. Rashid served as director at Rhona Hoffman Gallery and Jack Shainman before joining Rosen.

• Wednesday, June 15, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
  Location: Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL), 161-04 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11432
  Grant Preparation - This seminar will cover grant writing, opportunities and budgeting.

• Purchase admission ticket for October 12 here.

  Wednesday, October 12, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
  Location: TBA: Please call (718) 658-7400
  Studio Visit with Franklin Evans
  Lector: Franklin Evans
  The group will visit Franklin Evan’s studio in Manhattan to learn how a successful artist runs a studio. This is a sequel of the 2010 visiting at Dennis Oppenheim’s studio. Participating artists learns established artist’s practices and gain the first-hand experience of their operation behind the scene.

• Purchase admission ticket for November 16th here.

  Wednesday, November 16, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
  Location: Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL), 161-04 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11432
  Meeting a Critic and a Curator
  Lector: Regine Basha, Independent Curator and Critic
  Regine Basha will talk about her curatorial practices and her role as a critic. Presenting her shows and writings, she will share her experience of writing on art and provide some tips to emerging artists in terms of how to get a critic’s attention or how to engage with a critic, a curator or a writer.

• Purchase admission ticket for December 14th here.

  Wednesday, December 14, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
  Location: Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL), 161-04 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11432
  Organizing Studio as Business
  Lector: Jackie Battenfield, Artist
  Jackie Battenfield will lead the seminar and review the most important points of successful studio practices, which include budgets, fund-raising, preparation of proposals and others.