Speed Branding for Arts Orgs & Artists
Connect with marketing and branding professionals to help shape your brand identity and build a network of supporters!
In partnership with The Ruby, this unique event offers arts organizations and individual artists a fast-track to sharpen their identity, strategy, and storytelling, while building connections with BIPOC, women-identified, nonbinary, and transfeminine professionals in marketing and branding. Professionals will include graphic designers, photographers, PR, and content specialists. Walk away with a network of industry-leaders to support your next steps.
Light refreshments and drinks will be provided.
Date: Friday, May 8, 2026
Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm PT
Location: The Ruby, Mission District, San Francisco (register for address)
Wearing All the Hats Without Losing Your Head
As the leaders of small arts organizations, you probably find yourself wearing every hat—executive director, creative director, fundraiser, marketer, program manager, and bookkeeper—sometimes all in the same day. This workshop offers practical tools and strategies to help you maximize limited time and resources while avoiding burnout. You will learn simple frameworks for prioritization, explore low-cost or no-cost tools to streamline operations, and practice strategies for balancing urgent tasks with long-term goals. Through interactive exercises and peer exchange, you will walk away with personalized action steps that make your workload more manageable and your impact more sustainable. Together, we’ll reframe time management as an act of sustainability rather than scarcity. By the end, you’ll have new approaches that make the many hats you wear feel lighter and more aligned with your mission.
Facilitated by: Alana Black and Melody Hernandez