IAC announces summer conference

The Indiana Arts Commission recently announced its plans for a two-part artist workshop and academic conference May 15-16.

“Leveraging Creativity: Artists Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Law” will feature many speakers from IU, including Jacobs School of Music professor Monika Herzig and Kelley School of Business senior lecturer Mark S. Long.

It will take place mainly in the Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis, but portions of the conference will be in the Eiteljorg Museum and the Herron School of Art & Design.
Leveraging Creativity is open to artists, arts administrators and intellectual property law scholars and practitioners.

The conference will train artists in the entrepreneurial skills needed to advance their careers. It will also focus on engaging arts and legal practitioners and scholars in discussions of current intellectual property issues faced when working with artists, according to its website.

Tickets are $20 until April 2, then the price increases to $25. There is a student discount available. Spaces are limited.

Artist workshop topics and speakers
Business planning for the arts
Mark S. Long, president, Long Performance Advisors, LLC

Using social media to promote yourself and your work
Sarah Smith-Robbins, senior director of Emerging Technologies at Kelley Executive Partners, IU

How to write a successful grant proposal
Janet Bloch, artist, author and education director at Lubeznik Center for the Arts in Michigan City, Ind.

Placemaking, cross-sector collaboration, health care, innovation and other buzzwords
Laura Zabel, executive director at Springboard for the Arts

Copyright law for artists: protecting your work and avoiding infringement
Robert S. Meitus, partner at Meitus Gelbert Rose LLP

Exhibiting and promoting your artwork: a guide for emerging visual artists
Shannon M. Linker, director of Artist Services and Gallery 924, Arts Council of Indianapolis

Fame and fortune in the music industry
Monika Herzig, musician and senior lecturer in arts administration at IU SPEA. Author of book “David Baker: A Legacy in Music” and a graduate of IU’s jazz program

Build a website for free — the artists’ way
Mark W. Bell, author and Ph.D. candidate in the IU Department of

TelecommunicationsMarketing for non-marketers
Joshua Lingenfelter, director of marketing at Clowes Memorial Hall of Butler University

Academic conference topics and speakers

Music licensing in the United States and Europe
Mark Avsec, legal practitioner
Michael Landau, faculty member at Georgia State University College of Law
Lydia Pallas Loren, faculty member at Lewis and Clark University


The current and future protection of performers and sound recordings in the U.S.
Arpan Banerjee, Jindal Global Law School
June Besek, Columbia
Roberta Kwall, DePaul University College of Law
Mary LaFrance, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
John Simson, American University
Terminations of transfers and restoration of copyright
Robert S. Meitus, legal practitioner
Anthony Reese, University of California Irvine
Elizabeth Townsend-Gard, Tulane University


Using copyrighted works of others in music and the visual arts
Funmi Arewa, University of California Irvine
Mike Carroll, American University Washington College of Law
Christine Farley, American University Washington College of Law