In the Artist Studio: An Art Salon with Carol Dyson Feat. Mazi Mutafa and Tim Davis
Date and Time
Sep 13, 2015 5:00 pm
Location
Takoma
235 Carroll St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20012
Sep 13, 2015 5:00 pm
Takoma
ARTrepreneurship 101Â
Balancing the business and creation of art is a formidable task for most artists. Join Carol Dyson and Mazi Mutafa of Words, Beats & Life for a stimulating conversation on how artists can build and sustain their business as working artists. #ArtistsStarveNoMore
Mazi Mutafa
Mazi Mutafa's entire professional career has been dedicated to serving youth and community development. Post-graduation, he worked for the Maya Angelou Public Charter School as a resident male counselor. Following this, he began working at the Institute for Cultural Affairs as the Mid-Atlantic Coordinator for “Youth as Facilitative Leaders†and conducted intergenerational facilitation trainings. The final position Mazi had before becoming the full-time Executive Director of Words Beats & Life was as the Street Outreach Coordinator for Motivational Educational Entertainment’s (MEE) “Be on the Safe Side,†a campaign to prevent teen pregnancy.
All of these professional and academic experiences prepared Mazi to take on the leadership of an organization dedicated to transformation. This chapter in his life began in 2002, and after all these years, his leadership and vision are taking WBL into the next phase of its development  as producer of creativity, innovation and excellence.
Tim Davis
Tim Davis is an artist, educator, and gallerist who received his Masters of Art degree from the University of Illinois, where he studied with artists Frank Gallo and Bill Carlson. Tim has had several years’ experience in researching, consulting and arts education. He continues to work and exhibit as a visual artist where he creates mixed media compositions of portraits and groups of people without exposing who they might be or who they may become. He was honored by the National Endowment for the Arts with an Arts Management Fellowship in 1984 and continued to work with the Expansion Arts Program at the NEA for some years. In the Washington metropolitan area, he has worked as a consultant with the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the D.C. Art Works Murals Project, the Council on Foundations and the Arlington County Arts and Planning Commission. He has been on numerous committees and boards throughout the Washington DC area, the most recent being an appointment to the Dulles Corridor Metro Rail Public Art Selection Panel. Currently the gallery represents artists from over twenty five nations, including: Australia, Jamaica, Ghana, Kazakhstan, Argentina, Columbia, Cuba, Haiti, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Senegal, Sudan, Bangladesh, Ukraine, Uganda, Uruguay, Canada, Russia, Vietnam, Ireland, Bulgaria and South Africa.
“In the Artist Studio†is a Busboys and Poets original in-house series focused on bringing awareness to issues surrounding the arts and the artist themselves. Join Carol, Busboys and Poets’ own arts curator, every second Sunday in our continuing conversations regarding life as an artist and the sustainably of the arts in our community.
A Busboys and Poets arts talk, free and open to the public.Â
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