NET Nights at Moore: November 2010

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

We had our biggest crowd to date here at Moore last Thursday evening for NET Nights at Moore: TREND REPORT - The Business of Fashion!

Close to 300 guests attended the cocktail hour and conversation with NYC based-designers Alex De Yonge of DVF and Auralis Herrero of her self-titled line Auralis Inc., and Philly-based designers Kristin Haskins-Simms of Strangefruit and Craig Arthur von Schroeder of Commonwealth Proper. The four designers, led by Moore's Head of Fashion Design Janice Lewis, discussed everything from advice for young designers on how they got their start in the industry, to how they identify their customers to the un-glamorous side of fashion. The talk was engaging to say the least; low-key and entertaining but very informative and insightful. We are looking forward to hearing what everyone has to say about the night and will be following up with interviews with each designer featured in the next few weeks. In the interim here are just a few of our fabulous, and quite fashionable guests, who attending that evening.

Mina Stevens, Tatiana Samara

Danielle, Mohammed and Desirey of FAME APPEAL

Mina Dia Stevens, Moore alum and Adjunct Faculty in Fashion Design at Moore

Amanda, writer for Philadelphia Weekly Style Blog

Robyn, Fashion Industry Management student at Philadelphia University

Maria Palantino and her mom Cheryl, a sophomore student in Moore's YAW fashion courses

Linwood, Robert and Mariya, summer YAW students

Tia Ellis from Couture at Your Door, a mobile boutique


Sheila Frank, founder of her self-titled label who is opening in The Galleries' DesignLab exhibition series on December 11 along wither her mother Lorraine and friend Sarah

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