Workshop #10110 - July 4-10
The Fine Art of Presentation & Selling Great Ideas
A Professional Business Presentation Workshop for creative business people and artists

Workshop Brief

Self-promotion and presentation is an area that is not commonly addressed in current university art, design and creative business curriculums. This workshop is THE perfect opportunity to focus on the important skills of verbal and visual communication for those of you wanting to enter a creative career or to change careers or to improve you skills of selling yourself and your ideas.

This, our second workshop, will once again deal with the important process of verbally communicating unique ideas, creative professional presentation and self-promotion and will focus on helping attendees learn methodologies that will help them be better prepared with important verbal and visual presentation skills that will make them more competitive in a business market. The workshop will be a comprehensive one-week immersion over a five-day period and will address verbal and visual communication and presentation skills, extemporaneous speaking and acting, selling of innovative ideas and strategic marketing.

Ideal Workshop Candidate

Creative business people, entrepreneurs, college students in the arts: including fine arts, graphic design, advertising, interior design, fashion design wanting to learn how to sell their ideas in concise and compelling ways. This workshop is a career development, career changing and business focused experienced for mature, creative people.

Jack Sprague
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Instructor

Jack Sprague

Professor, University of North Texas

Education Director, The Smart Center

sprague@unt.edu

Instructor Bio

With a bachelor’s degree in Art and Design Education and a master’s degree in Communication Design, Jack Sprague has 35 years as a practicing artist, designer, art director and educator. He served as the Coordinator of Visual Communications at the Art Institute of Dallas from 1979-1988 and has been Professor of Communication Design at the University of North Texas since 1990 where he served as the area coordinator for fourteen years.

In addition to teaching, Sprague has worked as a graphic designer and art director in both Dallas and NYC and has had his own design business since 1985 working for a diverse array of clients from real estate, architecture firms, corporate branding and communications, banking, fashion and retail to service, social and charitable organizations.

In 2008 Sprague received the Golden Orchard Award for Lifetime Achievement in Design Education from the Dallas Society of Visual Communications, America’s largest professional organization of art directors, designers, commercial photographers, illustrators, copywriters and information designers.