NET Nights at Moore

A new program for students and graduates of local art and design colleges to network with peers and heads of area business associations and arts organizations as well as build relationships with other young professionals.

These lively evenings feature guest speakers, workshops and seminars designed to help Philadelphia artists and designers make creative contacts in our community.

Presented by The Galleries at Moore in cooperation with The Locks Career Center and Moore’s new Business Scholars in the Arts student leadership program.

2010-11 NET Nights at Moore are supported by Your Part-Time Controller and Moore College of Art & Design.

2009-10 NET Nights at Moore were supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Business Scholars in the Arts (BSA)

The Business Scholars in the Arts is a new program at Moore College of Art & Design that supports a select group of transfer students. The program supplements the students’ art and design training with business-related experiences outside of the classroom. Our group is particularly interested in entrepreneurship. We encompass a wide range of majors, from Graphic, Fashion, and Interior Design, to Illustration, Art History, and Art Education.

Our goal is to acquire the skills necessary to network within the professional art world, which will ultimately aid us in opening our own businesses or taking on leadership roles in a company or organization. The first year of the Business Scholars program stresses this networking process. To that end, we have established a collaborative relationship with the Galleries at Moore to provide support for NET Nights. These lively evenings feature guest speakers, workshops and seminars designed to help Philadelphia artists and designers make creative contacts in our community.

The purpose of this blog is to continue the conversations started at NET Nights and to provide resources that will enable emerging artists and designers to profit from the expertise of the speakers. Look to our blog for our interviews with speakers, our suggestions for interesting upcoming events and links to useful web-sites.

The BSA Students:

Laura Bonvini

Amber Callahan

Melissa Chancer

Amanda Corropolese

Samantha Edmonds

Christine Ferri

Chriztie Kaufmann

Sara Stanton

Haoren Yu

NET Nights Advisory Committee

The NET Nights Advisory Committee is comprised of local artists, designers, curators and arts administrators, business professionals, professors and students from various disciplines and backgrounds. NET Nights programs are the product of thoughtful discussions between these committee members, sharing ideas, insights and suggestions to stimulate new relationships and networking between emerging artists and designers and business and arts professionals in Philadelphia.

Click here for Advisory Committee Blog

Style Shepherd

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

The Business of Fashion

When I read the announcement for Moore's Net Nights .....

Net Nights at Moore, Trend Reports, The Business of Fashion

I thought, hmmmmm this should be interesting. Well it was interesting..... and soooooo much fun! The night began with cocktails and people watching...

Student designers from area schools showed up in their own creations and I had more than one flashback to sophomore year of high school. The Eighties are back! I'm a little envious, you know what they say, if you wore it the first time around, you can only add an accessory the second time around. In other words, The Style Shepherd can not go all out 80's, but I CAN accessorize. So yes, that's what I did... the all black fashion uniform and a John Wind Maximal Art statement necklace (sorry, no pic).

Left to Right - Alexandra de Young Fashion Designer at Diane Von Furstenburg, Auralis Herrera Lugo Founding Designer of Auralis Inc, Janice Lewis Chair and Professor of Fashion Design at Moore, Kristin Haskins-Simms Founding Designer of Strange Fruit, Craig Arthur Von Schroeder Founding Designer of Commonwealth Proper

The cocktail hour went by really quickly... time really does fly when you're having fun. We all tucked into our seats, ready to listen to Janice Lewis, take the guest speakers and audience on a rip roaring good time. Let's face it, any time a discussion begins with 'the business of'..... we could be in for a long night. Not at Moore, and not when Janice has the microphone, I felt like I was having tea with five of my good friends.

Model wearing Strange Fruit by Kristin Haskins-Simms

Kristin Haskins-Simms, explaining her inspiration for Strange Fruit's Spring 2011 collection as Prairie Chic, a mixture of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Carrie Bradshaw, brought the house down. Please take advantage of the events at Moore... I promise you'll have a great time.

..... Speaking of the Business of Fashion, I wanted to share this video from one of my favorite blogs Business of Fashion.com.

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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

The Business of Fashion

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