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Alpine for Creatives

Gwynne Rukenbrod Smith

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Dates

Wednesdays
May 17 - Jun 14

Time

5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Price

375

Location

Online — Zoom, NC + Google Map

Are you ready to grow your creative based business and determine your next steps?  If so, Alpine for Creatives is for you! This five-week course provides a peer-to-peer learning environment for you to assess your creative-based venture to date and address the opportunities and challenges emerging on the horizon. The course will guide participants through a comprehensive assessment of their experience producing and selling to date.  The Alpine Course will give you the opportunity to assess how things have been going in your business up to this point while also visioning for the future. It will reconnect you with the “why” of your venture and help create in-roads to meeting both your short and long term goals.

 

This special Alpine Course is part of the Craft Your Commerce Workshop Series E-Commerce and Digital Marketing offered by Mountain BizWorks. The series involves a networking event, five separate workshops, and one intensive course suited for existing makers. Alpine for Creatives is designed to help makers with an existing business take the tools, strategies, and resources gained from the series workshops and then integrate them into your business plan and practices to further your success.

 

For any questions you may have you can reach out to our Learning Program Coordinator, Lilley Egues at lilley@mountainbizworks.org.


Presenters

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Mountain BizWorks event presenter, Gwynne Rukenbrod Smith

Gwynne Rukenbrod Smith

Gwynne Rukenbrod Smith currently serves as the Senior Director of Programs and Partnerships at American Craft Council. She is the former Executive Director for the Society of North American Goldsmi...

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Gwynne Rukenbrod Smith currently serves as the Senior Director of Programs and Partnerships at American Craft Council. She is the former Executive Director for the Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG), an organization dedicated to the support and advancement of contemporary jewelry and metal artists.  Before that, Gwynne was the Executive Director for HandMade in America, an economic development organization that focuses on growing craft economies in Western North Carolina.  While there she created Craft Labs a professional development series of classes for artists.  She is an accomplished glass artist as well as an arts executive.  She ran a successful glass business for several years.  She has worked with both rural and urban communities teaching her professional development and entrepreneurship workshops across the country for over 18 years.  Gwynne believes in helping artists and small business owners expand their markets and create sustainable businesses.   She currently serves as the Board Chair for the North Carolina Glass Center and lives in Asheville, NC with her husband and two dogs.

Details

Date
May 17, 2023
Time:
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Event categories:
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Organizer

Mountain BizWorks
Phone
828-253-2834 ext 10

Venue

Virtual
Online — Zoom, NC + Google Map