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Rose Center is excited to invite the community to the AIR Shift Workshop on June 13-15 at Rose Center.

In a multi-day, hands-on workshop, AIR Certified Facilitators help small teams learn to use collaboration skills, design thinking, and business planning to create small, locally implementable projects. It’s totally unique in bringing together emerging and professional creatives and businesspeople for a collaborative learning experience.

The Shift Workshop uses hands-on collaboration, design thinking, and business planning to help grow creative communities and economies.

Thousands of people have attended Shift Workshops across the country, spurring the growth of creative economies wherever they occur. People who should attend include creative types: artists, musicians, sculptors, writers, dancers, museum administrators, librarians, parks and trails volunteers, craft food and beverage makers, local restaurant owners.

Also, all innovators: business owners, accountants, landscape designers, marketing firms, product designers, game developers, videographers, and graphic designers.

Discover new ways to think about the power of creativity and challenge your mental models about art, business, community and money.

Take the mystery out of business planning. Strengthen your creative muscles and entrepreneurial mindset. Practice design thinking and prototyping and design an implementable project in just a few days!

The Workshop uses AIR Collaborative’s Creative Economy Growth Process that inspires community resilience, local investment, diverse economies, and hope.

Air Collaborative is a national creativity-focused economic development nonprofit that provides rural and under-resourced communities with programming that inspires new connections and ignites the creative economy.

Creative people expand business skills, businesspeople get more creative; they learn to collaborate, adapt, and thrive together. Learn more at https://www.airinstitute.org.

Beth Flowers, founder of AIR Collaborative, is leading the workshop. Ms. Flowers said, “I’m so excited to join such a vibrant community to connect with the inspiring people who make Morristown unique and special. I think Morristown is poised to be a regional leader in growing creative economies.”

Deb Miksa and Beccy Hamm, AIR Certified Facilitators, will be assisting with the workshop. Times are: Tuesday, June 13, 1:00-5:00 pm; Wednesday, June 14, 9:00 am – 6:00 pm; and Thursday, June 15, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm.

The workshop can only accommodate 36 attendees, so preregistration by June 5 is required. This AIR Shift workshop is presented free of charge through a generous grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission.

This project is being supported, in whole or in part, by federal award number SLFRP5534 awarded to the State of Tennessee by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Rose Center is leading AIR work in Morristown/Hamblen County and is presenting the Shift Workshop.

Beccy Hamm, Rose Center’s Executive Director said, “This is a wonderful opportunity for Morristown, and I’m eager to see the great project that results from this workshop. Let’s build our creative economy, together!”

To learn more or register for this workshop please visit www.rosecenter.org or call 423-581-4330. Rose Center, located at 442 W. 2nd North St. in Morristown, is a non-profit museum and cultural center serving the Lakeway Region since 1976.