The Art of Arts Entrepreneurship
In this 10-week online seminar, learn how to add the essential entrepreneurial skills, business acumen, and marketing strategies to your portfolio. The creative economy needs your art—let’s get you out there.
Our Methodology
Collaborate
Share, collaborate & critique business plans with peers and mentors
Understand
Realize your contribution to the creative economy locally and globally
Value
Turn your work into investment assets and financial instruments
Connect
Cross disciplines & cultures to better convey your artist’s statement to others
What You Will Learn
Why Join Us
Affordable
Personalized Mentorship
Immediate Application
Global Networking
FIIB & CommonTimeWhere arts meet business
About FIIB
About CommonTime
Seminar instructor
Dr. Jeff Levenberg
As Director of Course Design at CommonTime, Jeffrey Levenberg encourages students to be equally versed in the liberal arts, modern technology, and business. Among other endeavors, he has researched Arabic and Chinese literature in the Italian Renaissance at Harvard, performed classics on the guqin in Hong Kong, won a prize at an Infosys Hackathon on AI, and consulted for the U.N. Capital Development Fund. As a development manager serving clients across disciplines and languages, Jeffrey is ever in pursuit of pluralistic (perhaps even polymathic) ways to grow the creative economy.
Guest Lectures
Brajesh Jha
He is a senior executive at Genpact with over three decades of experience building and running professional services businesses at multi-billion dollar companies. He has been an intrapreneur for most of his corporate life, attracting and motivating top talent. Brajesh is responsible for Genpact's global digital transformation business in multiple industries, including Media, Publishing, Advertising, Communications, and Entertainment.
Adrian Werum
Adrian Werum is the founder and artistic director of the Orchester der Kulturen (the World Orchestra) in Stuttgart, a unique orchestra combining instruments and musicians from all cultures. He is an award-winning music director and composer with a passion for musical theatre, world music, and symphonic compositions. Through music, Adrian embraces Germany's shifting demographics and celebrates the diversity of the world's cultures.
Alissa Schoenfeld
Alissa Schoenfeld is a senior director at Miles McEnery Gallery in New York City. Prior to this she was the director of Yossi Milo Gallery and has been working in the gallery world for the last twenty years. Schoenfeld holds a Master of Art in Art History, Criticism and Theory from Stony Brook in New York.
Huzefa Tavawalla
Huzefa Tavawalla is the head of the Bangalore office and Disruptive Technologies Practice at Nishith Desai Associate. He is a techno enthusiast and has worked on several matters relating to Drones, Space, Generative AI, and more. Huzefa has a strong IP, Data, and regulatory focus and has published several articles on emerging technologies.