Arts Entrepreneurship

Market Your Event at SMU and in DFW

SMU Meadows has a number of channels to help get the word out about student initiatives. Students are encouraged to use as many of these resources as they can! Many are "self-service" and require only a small amount of that time and effort. There are also a number of arts publications in the Dallas area that allow event submissions, as well as e-zines and blogs that are always looking for interesting stories. Read more

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Arts Entrepreneurship

Arts entrepreneurs create. While creating opportunities, jobs, culture, products and services, they help drive our economy. Meadows Arts Entrepreneurship students are taught to know and grow their audience and customer base and to serve heroically as they create. Whether used to create a for-profit business, a nonprofit or a "business of one," arts entrepreneurship techniques will increase artists’ chances of making a living in the arts.

Mission

The Division of Arts Management and Arts Entrepreneurship at SMU seeks to equip its creative students with entrepreneurial skills to amplify their chances of creating sustainable income and to serve as the principal driving force of their own careers throughout their lives.

On their own, neither artistic nor entrepreneurial techniques are enough to sustain a career in the arts. But when both are developed simultaneously, students dramatically increase their chances of developing their professional opportunities and of consistently working through personally meaningful pursuits.