Passion Into Profit: A Conversation with Nicole Slater and Ray Beldner

**Nicole Slater** / Strategic Marketing Consultant
Since 2005, Nicole Slater has been focused on helping creative people share their message with the world and make more money. She brings proven strategies and is a fountain of fresh marketing ideas. She loves helping artists, musicians, and entrepreneurs develop marketing strategies and get results. If you want to learn vital digital marketing skills, she is a dynamic and patient teacher and is ready to show you the way!

Ray Beldner / Artist and Director, Startup Curatorial

Ray has worked in art education and marketing for the last 20 years with the goal of inspiring people to create, value, and support the visual arts. As an artist, he has exhibited both nationally and internationally, and at several Bay Area colleges and universities, he taught courses in sculpture and installation art, conceptual art, and his passion, professional practices for artists. In 2015, he co-founded Startup Art Fair, a hotel fair for independent artists.

Please join us for a conversation about developing the tools necessary to build a career as an artist, how to leverage your strengths and get help with your weak points, gather support from friends and professionals and ultimately turn your "passion into profits."

When: Thursday, April 6th, 6-7pm

Where: Use this link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85495043288?pwd=dDNnNmozNTZMZXNib3BRNmJGNHlyUT09