Build your art career and make art work!
Artist INC Express Joplin/SE Kansas (in-person) helps artists, of any discipline, develop the building blocks for a thriving and enduring arts practice.
Led by a team of experienced, working artists, this ten-hour, hands-on workshop helps artists like you address specific needs and challenges that you’ll face throughout your career. Through discussions, activities, and hands-on exercises, your artist facilitators, and your new network of peer artists, will help you set goals for your practice, write about your work, and build a personal brand.
Artist INC Express is a slimmed down, yet still highly active, version of the popular eight-week Artist INC program, which has been completed by more than 2,000 artists since 2009. Artist INC Express explores those same core concepts of how to build a lasting arts practice in a shorter, more flexible format, to help reach a broader audience of artists.
If you sign on for Artist INC Express, you are asked to commit to the entire workshop, as exercises build on one another and as participants develop deep relationships with their fellow artists over the three sessions. Be ready to participate throughout in group discussions, hands-on exercises, and small group work.
And just know, it’s not over when it’s over. Right away, Artist INC Express activates a network of artists in your community, leading to more peer-to-peer resource sharing, collaborations, and support long after the workshop concludes.
A recent Artist INC program participant expressed their love of the program. “So worth it. I feel so empowered, seen, supported, hopeful and ready to launch what I learned. The difference in me from before to after is palpable.”
Learn more about Artist INC Express, a program of Mid-America Arts Alliance.
Cost: $0
Register at https://www.maaa.org/event/artist-inc-express-joplin-mo-se-kansas-in-person/
Registration deadline: Thursday, March 19, 2026, 5pm
Location:
Harry M. Cornell Arts & Entertainment Complex
212 W 7th Street, Joplin, MO 64801
