ABC Nashville

Recognizing a business that integrates arts and creativity into the business culture to build morale and foster employee creativity and innovation.

Avenue Bank. One of the city’s newest banks fosters the creative spirit by engaging with and in the city’s creative community – from prominent displays of local art to employee participation in the council’s Music City Corporate Band Challenge and ArtsWorks programs.

Cummins Station. The Community Arts Program at Cummins Station offers member businesses the opportunity to explore and enjoy art in a unique, intimate way while offering both local and national artists a place to create and display their work. The program also awards free workspace in dedicated artist studios to two artists each year.

Nashville Public Television. NPT has transformed its building into The NPT Art Center – a modern day, nonprofit arts commune that houses NPT, the Nashville Shakespeare Festival, TN Rep and Nashville Film Festival.  The creative collaboration greatly enhances each organization, which benefits our entire community.

As Michael Corleone says so well in The Godfather, “It’s not personal, Sonny. It’s strictly business.” While it may not feel personal or artistic, it is smart to know the legal basics for protecting your work and business relationships. Not sure how to put agreements in writing without straining friendships? Don’t know how or when to get your work copyrighted?

Join intellectual property attorneys, Tara Aaron and Rick Sanders from Aaron Sanders, to learn how to maximize copyright protection for your creative works. Legal Basics for the Arts will cover the key elements of copyright law, how copyrights can be transferred, and why it is important to have written agreements about your copyrighted works.

Legal Basics for the Arts: Copyright and Contracts

Monday, February 13, 2012 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM

Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum

(222 5th Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203)

$10 ABC Members | $15 Non-members

Register now. Brown bag lunches welcome!

MORE ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

Tara Aaron - Tara Aaron practiced law for nearly seven years at Stites & Harbison PLLC in downtown Nashville before opening Aaron | Sanders. At Stites, she was an attorney in the Intellectual Property and Technology Service Group, handling all manner of licenses, purchases, and sales of copyright, trademark, and patent assets. She has advised major political campaigns on the use of copyrighted music, and helped a small Southeastern company sell its Bluetooth technology for millions. Tara also represents artists, managers, record labels, and promoters, helping them ensure that their contracts are clear and their rights are secure. More on Tara.

Rick Sanders - The legal problems and challenges presented by software, hardware, e-commerce, social media and the Internet have long engaged Rick Sanders’ interest. Rick’s first two cases, as he began his career in Silicon Valley, involved the business and technology of making music available over the Internet. Rick has been hooked on intellectual property ever since. Although Rick enjoys all forms of intellectual property, copyright law has always engaged him the most. For this reason, Rick was instrumental in bringing the U.S. Copyright Office’s “traveling show” to Nashville for the first time in 2005. He has been co-producing “The Copyright Office Comes to Music City,” hosted by the First Amendment Center, ever since. More on Rick.

The Arts & Business Council connects artists and arts organizations with the services, skills and opportunities they need to thrive from their creative endeavors. The ABC Seminars exist to educate individual artists, creative professionals and arts organizations to help them master the business of arts.

Tuesday, December 20th | 1:30-4:50 p.m.

On Stage at Belmont’s Troutt Theater

$100 for ABC member | $130 for non-member

Much Ado About Ethics is back and features all new scenes from Shakespeare’s classics!

Much Ado will be moderated by Nashville Shakespeare Festival founder Donald Capparella of Dodson Parker Behm & Capparella, Rick Sanders of Aaron Sanders and Edward Lanquist of Waddey & Patterson. All three are avid, participating members of the William Shakespeare fan club.

Reserve your spot today by RSVPing to: seminars@abcnashville.org or (615) 743-3055.

With the same buy-local spirit as Community Supported Agriculture, which allows consumers to buy seasonal produce directly from local farms, CSArt makes it affordable to purchase fresh work by Nashville’s top artists!

Seed Space curators commissioned ten Nashville-based artists to each make 50 limited-edition works of art, including two ABC Creative Capital Alumni.

Seed Space curators carefully selected a range of media for each crate. A $250 half-share crate includes five artworks. A $500 full share (two crates) includes ten artworks + a CSArt Hatch Show Print poster. Purchase shares online at www.seedspace.org. The purchase deadline Nov. 1 so you must act quickly. Plus, there are only 100 shares available.

Join the ABC in supporting CSArts – buy yours now and invest in Nashville!

Selected artists: Vesna Pavlović ,  Derek Coté, Herb Williams , Lesley Patterson-Marx , Emily Leonard, Sher Fick, Mike Calway-Fagen, Jodi Hays , Nicole Baumann, Ryan Hogan

The Mall at Green Hills came alive for the Arts & Business Council’s (ABC) ArtWorks, the annual art exhibit and reception inspiring corporate creativity and camaraderie. ArtWorks invited companies to show off their team’s creativity, enter up to ten pieces of original artwork created by their employees and compete to win Critic’s Pick and People’s Choice Awards.

This year, the Nashville restaurant community was added to the mix with the Jack Daniels Paint the Town Jack competition. Nearly 50 restaurants and wine & spirit shoppes, each painted a 34” statue of Jack Daniels for the “Jack” portion of the competition.

The ArtWorks Critic’s Pick judges were Shelley Liles McBurney, Ted Clayton and Walter Knestrick.

Company winners

Individual Winners

Nearly 50 statues competed in the Paint the Town Jack portion of the Arts & Business Council’s ArtWorks. Winners in the Paint the Town Jack division were:

Jack Daniels was the lead sponsor of ArtWorks and the Paint the Two Jack portion.  Additional sponsors included The Mall at Green Hills, Hoar Construction and Bacon Construction.  KraftCPAs was the official accounting firm for ArtWorks.

July 29-31

Leu Center for the Visual Arts

Belmont University

Last weekend, the Creative Capital Workshop was held at Belmont University. The twenty-four participating artists learned about strategic planning, self-management, fundraising and promotion from five of Creative Capital’s dynamic and highly trained workshop leaders.   Our artists loved the Workshop and gave it rave reviews. Click here to see the reactions of five of our artists, Michael Mucker, Carolyn McDonald, Bryce McCloud, Andrew Saftel, and Jay Knowles.

The Creative Capital experience was limited to 24 high-level artists from Nashville and its surrounding counties. Applications were reviewed by a selection committee with the goal of assembling a very diverse group of artists from varied artistic genres and cultural backgrounds. Applicants must be Tennessee residents and should be practicing artists who have been working professionally for at least 5 years.

The Creative Capital Workshop offers serious artists an opportunity to learn about self management, strategic planning, fundraising and promotion. This year’s workshop includes visual artists of all kinds of mediums, photographers, filmmakers, actors, writers, choreographers, songwriters and even a circus performer. Participants were selected from an applicant pool of 50 artists by a panel of arts and business community leaders comprised of Mark Montgomery, Kelly Frey, Jaime DeRensis, Ana Schwager, Thor Urness, Sharon Reavis Woodson, Rich Boyd and Jeff Rymer.

This year’s artists:

• Andrew Saftel – Visual: Mixed Media
• Bryce McCloud – Visual: Printmaking
• Caroline Allison – Visual: Photography
• Carolyn McDonald – Writer, Filmmaker, Photography
• Debra Belue – Dance, Choreographer
• Emily Leonard – Visual: Painter
• Erika Wollam – Visual: Mixed Media
• Jacob Weiss – Performing: Variety/Circus
• Jaime Raybin – Visual: Installation
• Jay Knowles – Music: Songwriter
• Jessica Owings – Visual: Printmaking
• Judy Klich – Visual: Encaustic
• Kathryn Dettwiller – Visual: Painting
• Kimiko Sakai – Visual: Photography
• Landry Butler – Photography, Music, and Poetry
• Laura Chenicek – Visual: Mixed Media
• Lesley Patterson-Marx – Visual: Mixed Media
• Mark Alan Burnett – Visual: Painting in oil and pastel
• Michael Mucker – Visual: Animator
• Reegus Flenory – Filmmaker and Actor
• Sabine Schlunk – Visual: Installation
• Sharon Homeyer Perry – Dance and Choreography
• Thandiwe Shiphrah – Poetry, performing and visual arts
• Tracy Facelli – Film

Host sponsors for the workshop are Belmont University and Southwest Airlines. Belmont President Bob Fisher said, “Belmont is excited to welcome artists of all disciplines to experience Belmont’s hospitality while expanding their work and planning for a successful future.”

Participants were selected from an applicant pool of 50 artists by a panel of arts and business community leaders comprised of Mark Montgomery, Kelly Frey, Jaime DeRensis, Ana Schwager, Thor Urness, Sharon Reavis Woodson, Rich Boyd and Jeff Rymer.

Reserve your spot today and RSVP to:  VLPA@ABCnashville.org.