Sorry Ashley - you should have been top of mind for this thread! You are the "Blueprint!"
Chad Ballantyne 705.812.0689 [email protected] Barrie's Coworking Community Perfect for small businesses, startups and entrepreneurs. 12 Dunlop St E, Barrie Ontario, L4M 1A3 Memberships start at $25/mth www.thecreativespace.ca 705-812-0689 On 2013-07-11, at 12:12 PM, Ashley Proctor <[email protected]> wrote: > Kallie > > Artists have absolutely been coworking FOREVER. We just call them shared > studios or artist collectives. > There has always been a need and desire to collaborate, to be part of a > larger creative community and to share resources, access to equipment. > Building a creative community is the same as building a coworking community. > > Every community is unique and yours might need specialized equipment. Just > ask them. > The shared equipment might be an old school printing press or a 3D printer - > the idea is the same, you are just making it accessible to a larger group of > people. > Our services have always been geared towards artists and entrepreneurs, most > people in our networks wear both of these hats. > Our events art usually art based or business focused, however there are > incredible collisions at networking events, receptions, and workshops because > of the diversity of programming. > > I get asked all the time where I came up with the 'idea for Creative > Blueprint' or the 'idea for coworking' or the 'idea for Foundery'. > I always reply that I had nothing to do with 'inventing the concept of > collaboration' I've just been running artist work, studio, exhibition and > event spaces for over 10 years now. > It's been an easy and natural evolution, we are simply responding to a need, > solving the problems we get asked to solve every day by our creative > community. > They just want an inspiring and empowering community and an affordable and > accessible place to do their work, whatever kind of work that might be. > Don't we all? > > Check out our Network of Coworking & Artist Studios in Toronto. > > One of our spaces is completely raw, filled with a dynamic community of > painters and sculptors. > Many of the artists are self-employed or do freelance work. > Another is a hybrid space where we are home to some freelance artists & > designers, creative start-ups & entrepreneurs. > You will find people working on a laptop and working on a easel. > And another is a more traditional 'coworking space' where freelancers, > entrepreneurs, start-ups, and community groups host meetings, attend > workshops & events in addition to doing their day-to-day work. > That coworking space also has an independent art gallery in the building. > > Creative Blueprint > www.creativeblueprint.ca > > Foundery > www.foundery.is > > Contact me directly if I can be of any assistance. > > Best, > Ashley > > > Ashley Proctor > > Creative Blueprint & Foundery > > > On Jul 11, 2013, at 11:04 AM, Alex Hillman wrote: > >> Ivan took the words out of my mouth. :) >> >> My biz partner came from an arts background and was the cofounder of a >> pretty successful collective here in Philly. When we sat down to figure out >> the business model for Indy Hall, the art collective was one of the models >> we looked at most closely in terms of strengths and weaknesses, and learned >> a LOT that has served us well. >> >> The twist, of course, is the number of artists that have approached us since >> saying "I want to do something like Indy Hall for artists", and I have to >> break it to them that we stole the idea...from them...and made it better. >> >> The M Night Shyamalan twist is that even though there's been so much >> interest we've had to work hard to become more friendly to the art >> community. Many of our local artists admired Indy Hall, but didn't think of >> it as a place they could work. It took a fair amount of education, not so >> much about what coworking is, but about how to think about their work. >> "Sure, you might do some of your production work here...but what about the >> BUSINESS of being an artist, or working with cross-medium collaborators? If >> they want to improve on either of those fronts (and you won't find many >> artists who won't jump at the chance to learn how to make more money), >> coworking can be a serious boon. >> >> I often point to Sean Martorana, the artist who curates the design of Indy >> Hall and one of the leads behind our http://twitter.com/indyhall_arts >> programming. He had a great interview in this magazine about the business of >> being an artist >> http://thestudio.studiographics.biz/thestudio/BusinessofArtSeanMartoranaFLL.pdf >> and you can read a lot more about his work here: >> http://seanmartorana.com/blog/ >> >> -Alex >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> /ah >> indyhall.org >> coworking in philadelphia >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Ivan Pope <[email protected]> wrote: >> I thought artists were the original co-workers - they just call them >> studios. That said, studio space that is shared with large communal working >> spaces are not so common. We are working towards maker/designer co-working >> spaces. >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Kallie Seniff <[email protected]> wrote: >> Is anyone familiar with any coworking spaces that are geared towards artists >> and photographers? I've been talking with some artists in my area that are >> interested in collaborative space but they obviously have some different >> needs i.e they need lots and lots of space for their projects. 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