Artserve Inc.

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“Artserve, inc. (artserve\organization) is a florida not-for-profit corporation, incorporated june 28, 1988. Since then, artserve has fulfilled its core mission by providing cultural entities platforms for growth. The organization offers a full range of support services that provide a solid foundation for area artists to hone business skills, embrace new technology, build audiences and learn best practices. It also goes out into the community to develop networking and collaboration opportunities that allows them to reach their personal vision and artistic goals. Since its inception, support from individual, corporate, foundation and government entities has been invaluable in order to sustain critical program activities, improve core resources, maintain and upgrade facilities and help fund professional staff who provide vital services and collaborative ventures that enrich the community. Artserve is primarily funded through grants from broward county.”

“Cooperative marketing program this is a vendor contract that has been administered by artserve for more than twenty years that makes media purchasing accessible to broward based artists and non-profit cultural organizations. This unique program matches marketing dollars for cultural organizations by producing and placing creative print, digital and broadcast ads to reach south florida's community. In addition to the placement services, the program negotiates the lowest possible prices with media vendors, and offers ad design, copywriting, guidance and advice to program participants in order to increase their return on investment. The program is open to not-for-profit cultural organizations and broward county individual artist grant recipients. All participants are either a broward-based organization or their events and performances are presented within the county.”

“Gallery exhibitions artserve presents several organized exhibits annually to allow members and area artists the opportunity to gain valuable exhibition experience, sell their work, and have their work seen by potential gallery owners, curators, and public patrons that don't typically frequent an art gallery. Artserve's menu of services affords exhibiting artists and arts organizations public relations and marketing support for their exhibits. All art presented is available for sale, and artserve handles all sales for the artists. Oat least 11 exhibits each year are showcased in the main gallery. Featured work includes paintings, photography, sculptures, installation pieces, film, fashion and performance art. Omonthly exhibits are presented by individual artists in each of two smaller gallery spaces. These spaces are available to rent by our member artists for solo exhibitions. Oexhibits are promoted by artserve through a range of vehicles that include direct mail, email, social media, grass roots marketing, press releases, print ads and radio spots. Visitors to artserve and attendees to events hosted at artserve and the fort lauderdale branch library all have the opportunity to view these exhibits and purchase local works of art that enrich our community and benefit the local artists and cultural arts entities. Artserve also engages the community-at-large to produce exhibits where people live, work, and play. Rotating exhibitions are presented in hotels, corporate offices, civic centers, and other cultural entities. Each exhibit is designed to provide maximum exposure for the participating artists. As with the gallery exhibitions, all artwork is available for purchase.”

“Operation of the artserve facility artserve manages, maintains and operates a 25,000 sq. Ft. Facility that offers a multi-purpose, affordable venue to assist the art, culture and non-profit community with their business needs, while also connecting them more closely with the public at large. The flexible spaces include business offices, a reception space, dance studio, classroom and workshop areas, board room access, working artist studios, conference and exhibit rooms and state of the art business machines in a shared business environment. All are made available for hourly/daily/monthly rental, with nominal rates offered for non-profit and cultural-specific endeavors. Additionally, the main auditorium can seat up to 200 and is an ideal space for conducting concerts, recitals, plays, seminars, film events and other types of performances.”

“Artserve's other programmatic components include: professional development and technical training a core mission is to provide the arts community with professional training tools to help them attain the knowledge and skills needed to turn their art into viable, sustainable businesses. This is achieved through various programs conducted by artserve. Technical assistance program another aspect of this mission is fulfilled through a contract artserve maintains with the broward cultural division to administer training and professional development workshops, seminars and events for broward cultural division grantees, applicants, artists, members of the cultural community, and the general public. With this program artserve holds and coordinates major workshops by nationally acclaimed industry experts, speakers on topics that meet the changing needs of the cultural community. Workshops artscalendar this program is a comprehensive online calendar of arts and cultural events that reflect the full range of rich, diverse, ethnic, historical and contemporary cultural activity in broward county, fl. Artscalendar.com enhances the region as a cultural destination, encouraging cultural tourism patronage. Artscalendar.com allows listings from both not-for-profit and for-profit cultural events, the calendar is the most comprehensive and unduplicated centerpiece for regional/national cultural tourism. Potentially 600 not-for-profit cultural organizations and 10,000 individual artists in broward county along with local festivals, library cultural events, private galleries and/or performing arts venues will benefit. Gift shop the artserve gallery and gift shop provides south florida artists who are members of artserve the opportunity to showcase and sell their works on an ongoing basis. Performance opportunities the artserve auditorium and gallery space are often used by area artists to conduct concerts, plays, spoken word events, music recitals and more performance-based programming. To widen our services to musicians, poets, singers and spoken word artists, artserve continually creates new programming opportunities. Recently two new programs - open mic tuesdays and the voicebox - were are launched to provide a stage for new voices. Open mic night has seen musicians, singers, poets, spoken word artists and comedians take the stage. For some it's their first time on stage, while for seasoned veterans it is a chance to try out new material. In the same vein, the voicebox is a monthly open mic night for teen spoken word artists. Offered in partnership with the jason taylor foundation, new voices fill the auditorium with inspirational performances. The artserve venue continues to also serve as host for free jazz jams, film nights and other performances. Arts in education programs in an effort to cultivate the next generation of cultural leaders, artserve develops innovative arts in education programs that engage yout, such as the artrepreneurs program and short play festival. This free summer program teaches teens interested in building careers in the theatrical field the business side of the arts. They learn everything from developing a business plan to marketing your brand, culminating with the production of one-act plays conceived, written, and produced by the teem participants. With this model being easily adapted to other mediums, artrepreneurs is a keynote program in a growing commitment toward nurturing both artistic excellence and entrepreneurship in arts education. Additional arts in education programs include the voicebox open mic program for teens, by teens, a student internship program, and the new student membership program that allows students to exhibit and participate in artserve programs for a nominal cost. New programs are in the development and funding stages, with launch dates set for the near future. Membership support programs artserve provides an ongoing stream of member benefits and services that support entrepreneurial growth”