Artist Trust is committed to sharing our professional-development resources. Organizations and individuals interested in learning more may contact Nirmala Singh-Brinkman for information on licensing EDGE, auditing EDGE or participating in any of our other professional-development workshops.

EDGE for Visual Artists has recently been offered by the following partners:

ArtsNow at Edmonds Community College
ArtsNow at Edmonds Community College will offer the EDGE Program starting in January 2010. The program will be followed by a show of EDGE graduates in the ArtsNow Gallery. Visit www.edcc.edu/artsnow for more information on the EDGE Program offered at the college.

Bellingham Technical College
EDGE was offered in Bellingham from October 17 to December 5 by the Bellingham Technical College and will be offered again in 2010. For more information and to register, please contact: Kathy Eaton, Assistant in the Continuing Education Dept. at keaton@btc.ctc.edu or 360/752-8447, or Therese Williams, Associate Dean at twilliams@btc.ctc.edu or 360/752-8316.

Cultural Congress
Professional-development workshops were offered by Artist Trust again at Cultural Congress in Leavenworth, April 27-29, 2009 at Sleeping Lady Mountain Resort. The conference, presented by the Washington State Arts Alliance, was open to artists of all disciplines. For workshop descriptions and information on the conference, visit www.wsartsalliance.com/congress.htm. Artist Trust offered scholarships to artists living in Chelan, Douglas, Okanogan and Grant counties. For scholarship information visit www.artisttrust.org/services/culturalcongress_scholarships.

We are always looking for partners to help bring EDGE to more artists across the state.  If you are interested in partnering with Artist Trust to bring EDGE to your community, please contact Nirmala Singh-Brinkman.  If you are an artist not located in Seattle, Artist Trust offers a one week intensive of EDGE at Centrum. Visit here for more information.  

Other Partners and Funders
In summer 2002, Artist Trust was approached by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation to develop a professional skills training program for visual artists. With their generous support, Artist Trust created EDGE and in 2003 and 2004, Artist Trust piloted the program with guidance from an advisory committee of visual arts professionals and artists. During that time, participants were selected through a closed nomination process. Participation now follows an open, competitive application process.The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation funds innovative projects which advance solutions to basic and enduring problems. EDGE was funded through its Marketplace Empowerment for Artists Program, in which visual artists are given the essential tools necessary to succeed as artists in the marketplace.

Levaraging Investments in Creativity (LINC), a ten-year national initiative to improve conditions for artists in all disciplines so that artists can more readily do their creative work and contribute to community life.

Washington State Arts Alliance; The Longhouse Education and Cultural Center; Central District Forum for Arts and Idea; City of Tacoma; Forest FOundation; Tacoma Arts Museum; the George L. Davis, Jr. Fund and the Ruth Murphy Evans Unrestricted Fund of the Greater Tacoma Community Foundation and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation.

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