Do It: Course Offered to Help Artists Grow Creative Businesses

Detroit Art & Business Institute has partnered with Access Growth to offer a business course crafted specifically for all makers. This detailed course is built to guide artists through the business steps needed to be accomplished to have be truly successful.

"Very excited to announce that my business course for the creative community is starting soon, and already accepting registrations," said Andrea Rosenfeld of DABI. Andrea, creator of the course, will instruct the course by understanding individual goals and challenges of the students participating. Makers will learn profitable pricing structures, marketing tools important to the creative community, finding ideal wholesale and retail customers, building realistic budget and sales goals, and more.

Classes will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesdays beginning June 9, at the Arab American Museum Annex in Dearborn. For more information or to register for the course, contact Hassan Bazzi, Growth Center Manager, at hbazzi@accesscommunity.org or 313.203.2677.

FashionSpeak 2015: Win Two Tickets to FashionSpeak!

Are you a graphic designer, artist or creative who would like to win two tickets to FashionSpeak 2015 and a t-shirt bearing your winning design? Or maybe you have a friend who is a fantastic artist and would make a great FashionSpeak companion. Either way, you're in luck!

DGG is giving away two tickets and a t-shirt to an artist who can create a fun and fashionable design for this year's conference. Above, on our beautiful flyer, are the two designs for the first two years of FashionSpeak for a little guidance and inspiration for a design. Now, this may go without saying, but we'll say it anyway - the conference name "FashionSpeak" has to be on the design to be considered for entry.

You will need to send a vector file of your graphic to karen@detroitgarmentgroup.org by Tuesday, June 30. Have fun, be creative and good luck! Who knows, you may see your designs on a t-shirt one day soon!