Welcome Back with Our Next Capacity Building Webinar Series

2027’s Capacity Building Webinar Series is here! This free, year-long lineup of workshops is designed for artists, culture bearers, arts workers, and arts organizations.

This year’s schedule looks a little different. Instead of 12 monthly sessions, we’re offering 6 sessions every other month from November 2026 through September 2027. A smaller lineup gives each topic more room and more time between sessions for participants to put new ideas into practice.

Join us on the second Tuesday of every other month from 4–5:30 p.m. Mountain Time for expert-led sessions on topics that matter to your work. Each session is a chance to build new skills, connect with peers, and gain practical tools you can use right away. 

Here’s what we have lined up:

• Nov. 10, 2026 | Getting Grant Ready: Grants for Artists
  We will break down common grant components, funder expectations, budgets, and practical ways to prepare before an opportunity opens.
• Jan. 12, 2027 | Beyond the Art: Articulating the Civic and Community Value of Creative Practice
  This session will offer practical approaches for articulating the civic, social, and community value of creative practice in ways that strengthen case-making, partnerships, and funding conversations.
• March 9, 2027 | Beyond the Grant: Building a Sustainable Fundraising Strategy
  We’ll explore practical approaches to individual giving, institutional funding, partnerships, donor relationships, and creating a fundraising strategy that fits an organization’s size and capacity.
• May 11, 2027 | From Data to Story: Program Evaluation That Matters
  This session will explore approachable ways to gather useful information and turn quantitative and qualitative findings into stories that support learning, communication, and future planning.
• July 13, 2027 | Protecting Your Creative Practice: What Artists Need to Know
  This session will introduce practical considerations around contracts, intellectual property, copyright, business practices, and other protections artists and culture bearers should understand as their work grows.
• September 14, 2027 | Beyond the Checklist: Building a Culture of Access
  This panel will explore accessibility from multiple perspectives, including disability and language access, workplace practices, culturally responsive approaches, and Indigenous perspectives on access and collective care.

Registration works differently this year. Each session has its own registration link. If you joined us last year, you may remember that one sign-up covered the whole series. This year, you’ll need to register for each individual webinar you would like to attend. Once you sign up, you’ll get a confirmation email with the details for that session.

All sessions are free to attend.