GetSmART!: Business + Artist Collaboration = Funding

While artists and small businesses remain stuck in survivor mode, many continue to overlook collaborations that could have huge returns on investments, including reaching new audiences, joint marketing, creative solutions and more. Joint events, bartered services and community outreach between both individual artists and businesses could help keep both thriving statewide.

About our Facilitator

Robert Bean has been slinging his own unique brand of visual stories on canvas and paper since the late 1990s. A graduate of the School of Visual Art at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Bean serves as the Department Chair of Painting and Drawing at the Museum School of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts and is an adjunct instructor of figure drawing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Bean is a facilitator for Mid-America Arts Alliance’s Artist INC programs, which focus on professional development skills for creatives. He is also a recipient of a 2022 Individual Artist Fellowship Award for graphic novel art. For more information visit rbfineart.com.