KNOW YOUR VALUE(S)

This course is a collaboration between The School of Making Thinking and FORGE NYC, a boutique consultancy firm of two art-career coaches who help artists take the next step in their work. This course is a nuts and bolts, skill-building course intended to support artists in their careers. We are offering it as a branch of our Artist Leadership Training Program.

​Leading with the heart into the gaps between craft and commerce, Know Your Value(s) offers students in creative fields the tools and training to achieve sustainable careers and plan intentionally for their lives. From generating project budgets and building personal brands to anticipating emergencies and ensuring active rest, FORGE NYC Co-Founders Chie Morita and Greg Schicker-Taubman provide the skills and know-how to assess, articulate, and assert the practical and monetary value of creative work while following the intrinsic values its makers uphold. The course will combine presentations that introduce the whys and hows of core language articulation and personal budgeting with practical guidance, curated exercises, and real-time feedback from course leaders Chie + Greg. By the end of the course, students will know how to draft mission, values, and vision statements, and plan a personal budget.
Thursdays, 6-8 PM EST (3-5PM PST)
​Online on Zoom
120 minute sessions, 4 weeks
February 6th - 27th
$125 - $375 Tuition
Select scholarships and solidarity rate discounts available upon request.

INSTRUCTORS

Chie Morita | 森田千恵 (she/they) is a consultant, creative producer, and consummate tinkerer dedicated to retraining our inherited habits and engineering empowering new systems in the arts—primarily as a Co-Founder + Partner of FORGE, a boutique consultancy devoted to helping makers forge a path toward success. As an educator, Chie created, curated, and led the Sokoloff Arts Fellowship at Town Stages as well as the FORGE Fellowship, which she currently leads. She has been commissioned to create learning containers for the Alliance of Resident Theaters/ New York, Empowered Artist Collective, and the Brooklyn Arts Council. She also serves as a young artists mentor for We Are Queens and her alma mater, Northern Arizona University, from which she graduated with a BS in Theatre Studies.

Greg Schicker-Taubman (he/him) helps stories find their form and storytellers hone their craft—primarily as Co-Founder + Partner at FORGE, a boutique consultancy dedicated to helping artists and makers take their next steps. As an educator, Greg has taught and directed students at Stanford, Columbia, and LIU Post. He holds a BA in Classics from Princeton (Summa Cum Laude) and MFA in Directing from Columbia. As a freelance director and dramaturg, Greg has worked with institutions including The Public Theater, Classic Stage Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Theater of War.​
Screen shot: Chie Morita, Photo by Taylor Cooley with styling by Katie LaMark.