It's not an easy question to answer, as it's something that only can only be determined through the lens of personal experience.  And since the Institute For Arts Entrepreneurship™ is based in experiential learning, we want to help you find an answer to this question which could define your career.

The Bite-Size Arts Ensemble Experience is a 12 week experiential learning workshop that lets you work with other artists to create an artistically interdisciplinary show called WHAT IS YOUR IMAGINATION WORTH: A New Kind of ROI.  As a member of your own Bite-Size Arts Ensemble™, you and three of your peers will work closely with Lisa Canning, founder of the Bite-Size Arts Ensemble™, and directors Shawn Bowers and Lance Hall, to create a professional show and workshop package which you will take into the community to show others how to utilize their imaginations in profound new ways.  You'll spend 10 weeks learning the tools of imagination training, the applications of those tools and then synthesize everything as you create and rehearse your own show and workshop combination, to be presented in the final two weeks of the Experience.  

Each Bite-Size Arts Ensemble™ presentation features:

- A 45 minute show pre-scripted show that you will, with direction, tailor to fit your individual artistic talents and entrepreneurial perspectives. Through this show you will teach the audience about the vital tools of imagination training, such as flexibility, fluency, improvisation, having heart, the willingness to fail and more.

- A 45 minute solo workshop taught by you in which you lead a small audience group in exercises and discussion based on your personal artistic

Through the development and execution of your own Bite-Size Arts Ensemble™ show, you'll learn how to become more flexible with your artistic voice and begin to formulate and refine your brand in active, real world scenarios.  This experience will sharpen your communication skills and you'll learn how to interact more effectively with the community through the presentation of your original workshop, developing your abilities to see a product from creation to execution.  Through this experience, you will gain an understanding and appreciation for what it means to be a "do it yourself" artist while truly beginning to discover, develop and test how your ideas might become a viable business. 


Sign up for a Bite-Size Arts Ensemble™ 12 week immersion experience. Classes meet once a week for 3 hours.  Your first class will begin on Monday, June 7th.  Two performances, open to the community, will take place August 16 and 23 at a location to be determined.  This workshop is an excellent beginning to your arts entrepreneurship journey. 

Enroll in the Institute For Arts Entrepreneurship™, opening in January 2011.  As a student at the IAE, you will continue to expand your "do it yourself" capabilities through our experiential learning modules, classroom learning a guerilla coursework.  Our unique blend of curriculum will help you access and shape your new ideas and then teach you everything you need to know about how to create, brand, operate and market your new artistic enterprise.

Learn more about the Institute's curriculum here.