Creative Waco getting Texas’ first arts-business AIR Institute training program | Local News

Waco arts nonprofit Creative Waco expects to boost the interplay between creative people with ideas and entrepreneurs with business savvy over the next three years as the first Texas organization to implement an AIR Institute training program.

Waco’s also will be the first bilingual AIR Institute program, and its reach is intended to extend beyond Waco, to small cities and towns statewide.

The Arts Incubator of the Rockies launched in 2011 in Fort Collins, Colorado, became affiliated with Berea College in Kentucky for a few years as it shifted from the regional reach its original name suggests, and since early 2020 has been the standalone AIR Institute, based in Frederick, Maryland, with a presence in 14 states.

Institute facilitators, like the ones Creative Waco will select, operate largely through workshops aimed at “helping creative people expand their business skills, and business people become more creative.”

An Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation grant…

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