+ Make a living with your art!
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Create sustainable income!
+ Hands-on experience
in a real-life market
+ Top-rate instruction
from working professionals
+ Unique blend of Art & Business
+ Supportive local arts community
+ There's nothing else like it!
ACPA is an artist finishing school in a conservatory environment. Our students have already developed their artistic technique, prior to applying. We assist our students in defining how to best use those talents to make a living in their medium and the arts. We teach artists how to function in the market, how to have large vision, how to build those visions, to lead, to create opportunities from “nothing” (so that money is never a start or stop issue) and we push our students into the market, to gain real-world market experience, while still in school. There is nothing exactly like ACPA in American arts training.
Entrepreneurial Arts Training is a burgeoning discipline. The concepts have been around for a long time, but feel more vital now, than ever before. More and more focus is being given to integration of entrepreneurship and the arts. Few offer such an intensive, thorough, hands on approach, as ACPA does. Austin Conservatory of Professional Arts has a foundational philosophy of The Hart Technique, an innovative technique that has the potential to change the standard in American arts training.
Many of us who train young professionals for careers in the performing arts have come to the realization that success for the next generation of artists will increasingly rely on their ability to produce their own work. As a consequence, for this generation the teaching of entrepreneurial skills needs to become a central part of the educational experience and receive the same intense focus as the teaching of traditional technique and artistic conception. Jim Hart has been a visionary leader in this type of training and the Austin Conservatory of Professional Arts promises to become an institutional leader in this approach.
Richard Isackes, Joanne Sharp Crosby Regents Chair in Design and Technology, MFA
University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance
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