Join the Florida State University Art + Entrepreneurship Expo, a creative arts entrepreneurship resource fair focused on FSU students. Located on the 2nd Floor of the Strozier Library. Note: Transportation from hotels will not be available for this event.

Enjoy a hosted reception and register for the conference at the Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, located at 530 W Call St, Tallahassee, FL. Dr. Susan Fiorito, the Dean of the Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship at Florida State University will give welcom remarks at 5:15 pm.

The reception is located within walking distance of the conference venue and central hotels. Note: Transportation from hotels will not be available for this reception.

Toward the end of the opening reception, participants may choose to join their colleagues for dinner at a range of nearby downtown restaurants. The cost of this dinner is not included in your registration fee for the conference. Dinner guides (a point person) will be available, and we will walk to each location as a group. A list of possible options is forthcoming.

A shuttle will be available from hotels to the north and east of the conference venue. A message was sent to all registrants about the shuttle; please respond to the message or email societyaee@gmail.com to sign up in advance.

Coffee and light snacks will be provided.

During this year's emerging research track, the following presenters will give a short preview of their work-in-progress and ask for feedback from you, their peers!

Bill Hill - "Exploiting Empathy"

Roxana Corradino - "Micro-Schools, Macro-Visions: Cultivating Arts Entrepreneurship through AI and Focused Attention"

Andrew Heise - "What Sticks: Arts School IMprinting and the Making of Entrepreneurial Artists"

Luis Castaneda - "Brand and Message: Design Communication, Pedagogy, and Entrepreneurial Contexts"

Daniel Gott - "Seisiún Lab: A Practice-as-Research Model for Participatory, Interdisciplinary Arts Training"

Jennifer Yucus - "The Student Design Firm as an Arts Entrepreneurship Pedagogical Model"

Note: Lee Chin Haw's presentation will be remote.

This session includes a 60-minute screening of Carlos Rolón: Working with Assistants, followed by 30-minute presentation facilitated by Jane CH Jacob with Attorney Patrice Perkins. This session, designed as a working lunch, focuses on the innovative film-based learning curriculum from an artist’s perspective in the context of running an entrepreneurial artist studio. This concept provides artists with a way to become instructors. The teaching methods include a screening of the artist’s experience of being taken advantage of, including copyright infringement and broken relationships, and how, with the help of art attorneys, he resolved the problem of running a professional art business through contracts. The film and breakout integrate arts, creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation.

Topics include an interdisciplinary curriculum model that opens up how the law operates within the "Work for Hire" concept, in which the hiring party, not the creator, is considered the legal author and owner of a creative work.  The relationship discussed demonstrates how the law protects artists' practices across all types of arts businesses, while providing blueprints for understanding how the concept works to improve entrepreneurial skills and to underpin career designs for students and art professionals.

The session will include a brief introduction to engage the audience in identifying problems and problem-solving during film-watching, a post-discussion on key topics, and Q&A to provide knowledge of how vital “Art through the Lens of the Law” becomes in running an Entrepreneurial business practice.

Former head of the FBI Art Crime Team, Tim Carpenter, will use actual case law about art crimes and lay a foundation for exploring criminal activity, such as theft, fraud, and looting, to uncover weaknesses in protecting cultural property. Cases will also reveal how criminal wrongdoing in the cultural arena can affect unsuspecting creators, collectors, businesses, and institutions. And finally, through his investigation and prosecution reviews, solutions sorely needed by the art profession will emerge from narratives and perpetrator mistakes, and then be uncovered, along with available legal protections.

One case will include the theft of the pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the 1939 film, “The Wizard of Oz.” The ruby slippers, recovered by the FBI and Grand Rapids Police Department in July 2018, are widely viewed as among the most recognizable memorabilia in American film history. The case was investigated by the FBI Art Crime Team and the Grand Rapids, MN, Police Department, with support from the FBI Salt Lake City, and prosecuted in the District of North Dakota.

Dinner will be held at The Assembly on Adams, 225 Adams St, Talllahasse, FL 32301. The dinner is within walking distance of the conference venue.

The shuttle will leave from the dinner venue and make a trip to hotels for those registrants with hotels to the north and east of the conference venue.

A shuttle will be available from hotels to the north and east of the conference venue. A message was sent to all registrants about the shuttle; please respond to the message or email societyaee@gmail.com to sign up in advance.

Coffee and light snacks will be provided.

SAEE Board Member Rand Harmon and members of the Strategic Planning Committee will host a two-hour Strategic Planning session where members and attendees can help define the future of SAEE.

During this year's emerging research track, the following presenters will give a short preview of their work-in-progress and ask for feedback from you, their peers!

Alex DeNoble & Craig S. Galbraith- "Blending Creative and Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy: A Developmental Framework for Arts Entrepreneurship Education"

Eric Liguori - "From Art on the Wall to Numbers on the Page: Teaching Venture Economics in Arts Entrepreneurship"

Rob Duarte: "Pedagogy of Applied Making: Hands-on Material Practice as a Framework for Arts Entrepreneurship Education"

During this year's emerging research track, the following presenters will give a short preview of their work-in-progress and ask for feedback from you, their peers!

Roxana Corradino - "Art Appreciation as Entrepreneurial Foundation: Creative Innovation for Non-Art Majors"

Steven Lewis - "Entrepreneurism as a Critical Framework for Evaluating Personal Creative Processes and Engaging with Emergent Musical Technologies"

Tobias Pret - "The Art of Activating One’s Creativity: An Artisan Entrepreneurship Perspective"

Ariel Barron-Robbins: "Challenging the Defaults"

Contrary to popular belief, breakthrough ideas are rarely the result of supernatural Eureka inspiration. Rather, innovators possess a toolbox of techniques. After examining secrets to creative success, learn three powerful approaches to generating remarkable, uncommon solutions.

Join your colleagues for a farewell lunch and breif closing remarks from the conference team. Additionally, we'll present awards to the conference papers in competition, and be announcing the location of the 2027 conference during this time. 

Lastly, conference sponsor Art Vérité is hosting a giveaway for access to select films from their library for use in your classrooms at no cost to you. Your conference badge will serve as your ticket to the giveaway.

SAEE Board President Emeritus Jim Hart will lead participants in a workshop session to discuss and develop a set of learning objectives for the field of Arts Entrepreneurship.