Entrepreneurial Training & Business Development
Medical & Dental Coverage
Liability & Other Insurance Coverage
Legal Services
Financial Services
Products & Services
Travel & Lodging
Discount Arts & Entertainment Tickets
Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI)
www.cciarts.org
Isn't it time you ran your art like a business? If you are tired of wondering how much to charge for your latest masterpiece, how to budget for a successful run of your new play, or the best way to get your poetry published, take advantage of the remarkable entrepreneurial training and professional development services created exclusively for artists at CCI. The Center for Cultural Innovation offers BOA members at least 10% off workshops designed to help artists with their businesses. CCI classes include workshops on Tax Tips, Marketing, Business Planning, and of course, the flagship, seven-week series, “The Business of Art.”
Literary Agency and Intellectual Property Management
www.thewriterslifeline.com
Ken Atchity's company, The Writer's Lifeline, Inc., helps writers do it right! If you are ready to turn your literary properties into commercial assets, use the BOA 5% discount for any introductory basic service listed on www.thewriterslifeline.com. In addition, Ken's books, A Writer's Time: A Guide to the Creative Process, From Vision through Revision and Writing Treatments That Sell, are available at at a 20% discount to BOA members. Contact subscribe@thewriterslifeline.com for daily inspiration for artists, and for events, publications and other specials that help writers build careers.
Artists Guides and Business Publications
Read to Succeed! The National Network for Artist Placement (NNAP) offers BOA members 15% off its library of excellent publications. Their catalogue covers a wealth of arts-related topics including career-building and financing arts businesses. Titles include Art That Pays, Artists' Business Solutions, and Presentations for Artists, and Breaking Through the Clutter.
Medical & Dental Coverage
Blue Cross of California
A visit to the BOA website can get you price estimates, plan descriptions and comparison shopping information from Blue Cross of California (BCC). BCC offers BOA members a wide range of health coverages. As an artist/entrepreneur, you are your most important asset . Act now to protect your health and take care of your physical well-being.
HealthInsuranceDepot.com
The Anthony Elliot Insurance Agency makes ruthless comparison-shopping easy for BOA members. You can receive instant online quotes & comparison on a myriad of health insurance products. The site makes it easy to sign-up with an online application. Act now to protect your health and take care of your physical well-being.
Safeguard Dental Insurance
Keep those pearly whites in tip-top shape through group (HMO) dental insurance coverage starting at only $14.61/month for the solo artist, and $38.36 for full service plans for the artist plus family. To see a directory of participating dentists, please visit http://directory.safeguard.net.
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For other questions regarding health coverage, please contact Lauren Bailey via email at Lauren@benefitsforartists.com or 888.826.3038
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Liabiltiy and other Insurance Coverage
Libuser Insurance Services
Need to insure for that art opening, performance or event, Libuser Insurance Services offers BOA members general property & casualty insurance services including business, life, homeowners & health insurance. Make sure your business is adequately covered.
Northwestern Mutual Financial Network
Given the status of health care in America, everyone, regardless
of age, needs to think about Long Term Care. Other products available
through Northwestern Mutual Financial Network include Life and Disability
Income insurance. BOA members can also take part in a designated
discount on Northwestern Long Term Care Insurance. In California,
this discount is available to members, members’ spouses and
registered domestic partners, and parents and parents-in-law of members,
spouses and registered domestic partners. Discounts in other states
are also available.
Legal Services
General Legal Services
Landlord objecting to paint on the walls? Curious about how to secure all you need in the theatre you are renting? Pre-Paid Legal Services offers BOA members various legal services important to artists, including contract review, copyright information, collections advice, and letter writing for as little as $17 monthly. Additional fees get BOA members access to more hours of service, as well as access to litigation and more. Services are offered through respected law firms such as Parker Stanbury in Los Angeles, in business since 1927.
Incorporating Your Business
The Company Corporation, in business since 1899, offers BOA members $25
off the process of incorporating businesses. This service can literally
save you thousands of dollars in legal fees.
Financial Services
Credit Union Financial and Business Services
Credit Unions traditionally offer great service at low rates- but memberships have been hard to come-by in the past. Telesis Community Credit Union offers artists a full range of financial services at offices throughout Southern California. BOA members enjoy special discounts on fees to join Telesis and use its services.
Products & Services
NEW!
Blick Art Materials
Blick Art Materials Catch a break and a 10% discount on everything in the store at Blick Art Materials. At Blick, BOA members can get the 10% Preferred Customer discount without paying Blick's regular membership fees. This is an exclusive offer from Blick Art Materials stores throughout Los Angeles.
GlobalFit
GlobalFit helps BOA members get in shape and stay in shape with the
Guaranteed Lowest Rates on month-to-month membership at over 1,500
fitness clubs nationwide. Save up to 60% off regular monthly dues with
no long-term contract, and enjoy additional discounts on online diet
programs, home workout videos and equipment and fitness gear.
Pennywise Discount Office Supplies and Equipment
You need paper for programs, ink for invitations and paperclips for press kits! Don't pay full price and drive all over town to gather up the materials you need to make your arts business run smoothly! Penny-Wise Office Products offers BOA members up to 36% off retail prices for major brand office supplies and equipment and free overnight delivery on most orders. BOA members also receive notice of frequent specials and sales.
G.Y.S.T.
Artist, curator, nonprofit veteran, and CalArts Professor Karen Atkinson has published "Getting Your Sh*t Together", a new CD software program based on her popular career-survival workshop series for artists. Written exclusively for visual artists, "G.Y.S.T." is a tracking and organizing software that can help facilitate all the aspects of running an arts business, from organizing your slides, writing proposals and grants, keeping a client database and producing mailing lists, to name a few. "G.Y.S.T." will teach you what you should have learned in art school...but didn’t. Regularly priced at $90, BOA members can purchase the full DVD for $60, a 30% discount!
SideStreet Projects
www.sidestreetprojects.org
Side Street Projects is an artist-based laboratory that supports and promotes innovations in art and education. SSP is a non-profit visual arts organization that designs extraordinary programs for youth, provides technical and administrative support services to emerging artists, and facilitates the creation of innovative contemporary art projects. BOA members can receive a 10% discount for Karen Atkinson’s popular workshop “Get Your Sh*t Together”. Regularly $75, BOA members pay only $67.50 for the full 10-week workshop, held at Armory Center for the Arts, 145 North Raymond Ave, Pasadena, 91104. Members can also receive a 10% discount on SideStreet video projector rentals.
Travel & Lodging
American Airlines
AA offers BOA members two programs for air travel discounts: The Meeting Special program allows persons such as fellow alumni based in many different places to fly to a single destination and enjoy discounted fares. The AA Business ExtrAA allows you to collect reward points on all employee travel that can be used for complimentary tickets. As a BOA member you receive a bonus of 250 enrollment points just for signing up!
Budget Rent-A-Car
Need wheels to deliver your sculpture to Secausus? Fearful of a flat when you drive the flats to Flatbush? Rent the ride you need at Budget, where BOA members can get up to 15% off daily, weekly and weekend rates on all rentals throughout the United States.
NEW!
Club Quarters
Club Quarters are full service
member-only hotels. They offer unique, user-friendly services for
the business traveler in a club-like setting. By being private,
Club Quarters is cleaner, quieter, and may restrict entry. Members pay
the lowest rates for a quality hotel room in 13 prime big city locations
(New York, Boston, London, Chicago, Washington DC, Philadelphia, San
Francisco, and Houston).
NEW!
The Parking Spot
Air travel can be stressful. From finding parking at the airport to suffering
frequent flight delays, you can use a little relief. The Parking Spot
exists to make your air travel experience a little easier. Since your
trip begins and ends with airport parking, The Parking Spot is the way
to reduce travel stress. BOA members receive a 15% discount on posted
rates. There are no blackout periods, FREE USA Today newspaper to the
first 100 guests entering the facility each day, FREE chilled bottled
water on exit, frequent parker program that awards the traveler with
FREE parking. This benefit is for the two LAX area lots only.
Discount Arts & Entertainment
Tickets
LA Stage Alliance
When “the play's the thing!” you need the LA Stage Alliance's LA Stage Tix program. BOA members receive regular notices about great seats on selected performance nights at theatres and live performance venues throughout the Los Angeles area at a 50% discount. More than 134 performance venues regularly participate in the discount program, including REDCAT, Reprise!, Pasadena Playhouse, UCLA Performing Arts, East West Players, Mark Taper Forum, CTG – Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles Master Chorale, and L.A. Theatre Works.
Museum Discounts
BOA members receive $5 off Museum Membership plus 1/2 off adult admission and one free child admission with purchase of a full price adult admission. Show your BOA card whenever you attend Museum events.
Performing Arts Tickets
BOA members receive a 10% discount off most performances held at the Japan America Theatre. Restrictions may apply to performances presented by outside producers at the JAT.
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Please call CCI at 888.826.3038 for additional information about these Benefits
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BOA is supported by:
LINC: Leveraging Investments In Creativity through The Ford Foundation
The Los Angeles County Arts Commission
The City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department
The James Irvine Foundation
