Whether you’re interviewing for a new job or you’re ready to ask for a raise in your current job, salary negotiation is always an uneasy topic. Tom Hausler comes to us with over ten years of recruitment experience and is ready to share what he’s learned from being a part of hundreds of salary [...]
Over the course of the next year we're hitting the road and collecting data for the Arts & Economic Prosperity 6 study through Americans for the Arts at events across the five counties of Western New York. At each event, we'll be surveying a sample of audience members which will paint the picture of [...]
We're so excited to introduce you to our two interns from the University of Buffalo's Arts Management Program, Adriana Torres-Trinidad and Riley Nahlik! They've been such a fantastic help to ASI as we coordinate our advocacy efforts and find new ways to serve our community. Here's the link to their advocacy survey: Take the [...]
Arts Access passholders are invited to meet our Arts Access Coordinator Cameryn at the Carnegie Art Center in North Tonawanda (240 Goundry Street) at 12:30pm on Saturday, April 23rd for a meet-and-mingle with fellow passholders followed by a talk by featured artist Salvatore Santospirito. Come view and learn about Santospirito's work while meeting new friends and community members. From the [...]
New YouTube video! Our latest series "Devon and Nicole Learn Things" has a new episode in which Devon and Nicole learn how to make a lightbox for product photos. (See second picture for a photo we took with our lightbox setup!) You can make a lightbox of any size, depending on what you'll [...]
In today's world, having an online presence for your creative business is more important than ever. It can be difficult to juggle your website and ecommerce alongside any number of social media networks, so here are five tips that will help you create a sustainable social media marketing plan that will convert followers into [...]
There are so many incredible arts organizations in Western New York and we wish that we could provide funding to all of them! This year's Give for Greatness grant was highly competitive due to the limited amount of funding that we had available but these organizations shone so brightly that we had to feature [...]
Arts Services Inc. (ASI) is seeking temporary, part-time staff to actively survey audiences and event attendees for the Arts & Economic Prosperity 6 (AEP6) project. Time commitment is approximately 5-15 hours per month. The Arts & Economic Prosperity® Report is Americans for the Arts’ national study of the economic impact of spending by nonprofit [...]
Western New York is well represented at this year's Americans for the Arts National Arts Action Summit as ASI's Jen Swan-Kilpatrick and Holly Grant take the lead as Federal Arts Advocacy Captains for New York State. Usually in-person in Washington DC, the National Arts Action Summit will take place virtually this year from March 28-30th and is free for anyone to [...]
If we asked you who your County Legislator was right now, would you know? How about what district your organization located in? So if someone asked your legislator right now which organizations in their district could use additional funding, do you think they would think of you? It can be intimidating to reach [...]
