Arts & Cultural Organizing | Building a Project Budget & Addressing Financial Trauma 4.27

Event Description:

Join us on April 27, 2025, for a designed to support artists applying for our upcoming Arts & Culture Organizing Facilitator and Fellowship programs. This workshop focuses on a project’s monetary and non-monetary needs and how to build a corresponding budget. Participants will discuss how to set artist fees, as well as the barriers – financial trauma, the devaluing of the arts, and systemic inequities – that come into play when we build our own project budgets. Participants will leave empowered to fight for their worth and prepared to take advantage of creative opportunities. This workshop series is designed to expand and nurture your creative community.

Facilitator Bio:

Yara Liceaga Rojas, M.A. of Poetry is Busy Studio, is a Queer, Afro-Caribbean mother, writer/poet, performer, cultural manager, and educator, born in Puerto Rico, who currently resides in the Greater Boston area. Founder and artistic director of Poetry Is Busy Studio, Yara is a Letras Boricuas Fellow (2021, Mellon Foundation + Flamboyán Foundation); Boston Neighborhood Fellow (2021-2023, The Boston Foundation); and Brother Thomas Fellow (2019, The Boston Foundation). She has been developing her consulting career in arts management and grant writing in Massachusetts and Puerto Rico, servicing artists, collectives, art businesses, and other entities. Yara has authored 5 books and has been the lead artist/curator of the ongoing projects: Poetry Is Busy; El Despojo Project; Acentos espesos/Thick Accents, Encarnar/Embody, and most recently Proyecto Solidaridad. These projects have received support from the Mellon Foundation, Mass Cultural Council, Cambridge Arts, the New England Foundation for the Arts, Boston Center for the Arts, Kindle Projects, Midas Collaborative, Assets for Artists, the Massachusetts Growth Capital Corporation, Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture, and The City of Boston. She holds a Master’s Degree in Arts Administration from the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras.