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Artists nationwide have found Creative Capital Professional Development Workshops to be valuable, inspirational contributions to their professional and creative lives. Follow this link to read participants' reactions to the workshops.

Here's the story of Jeffrey Gibson, workshop participant at the 2003 Lower Manhattan Cutural Council Workshop:

Jeffrey Gibson, a painter and a member of the Mississippi Choctaw Indian tribe, came to the first Professional Development Program in April 2003 with a lot of ambition, but without many expectations. "I had done a similar workshop before," he explains, "and found that at the end of the day, it's possible to do a lot of running around for your career, but it can feel kind of empty." By the end of the weekend, he started seeing ways to integrate two facets of his life that had always seemed separate - his Native American background, and his career in New York's contemporary art world - and he had begun planning a way to give back to his community.
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