Digital Bootcamp: Boost Your Skill Set

This introduction course designed to empower students with a suite of digital skills and digital production processes. Digitizing your skill set will boost your output, speed up your workflow, and help get you to economic sustainability. We will teach you general marketing concepts, how to harness your talent with discipline, and provide you with entrepreneurial guidance to help you plan out your life as a creative professional or working artist.

This class includes an overview of the “Tools of the Trade”, familiarizing you with the Computers, Devices, Software, Apps, and the Digital Workflows required to grow in your career. You will come away knowing how to produce your own marketing and advertising materials, and how to promote and sell your own products and services.

During this course, students will develop a Career Map to help them visualize their professional path. This process will help define sustainable options for your career, identify career path tangents, and help you focus on the steps needed to actualize your career plan. We will review job opportunities and trends in the marketplace of jobs, and strategies for breaking into the marketplace of creative, technical or business-to-business services.

This class covers GENERAL TOPICS and is great for older Working Artists who are jumpstarting their careers, and is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for Young Artists, as this class will become the first serious step of a multi-decade journey as an Artist.