Accounting for Artists, Working with Media, Visual Arts & Theatre Business, Nonprofit Management, Social Media, and Visual Arts Markets & Festivals

FEE: $25-$50 per hour, but can be flexible depending on artist/org budget

QUALIFICATIONS: I find no greater joy than helping artists and organizations "figure it out." From creative development, marketing, operations, management, basic accounting, event production, and more I'm wholly aware of the challenges involved and always love to help.

ABOUT: Ron Rona is a Cultural Engineer, Brand Strategist, and Creative Producer based in New Orleans, LA. He currently serves as Artistic Director for New Orleans’ esteemed Preservation Hall. With roots in music, performance art, and experience design, Ron strives to make culture more visible by telling old stories in new ways through collaboration, innovative programming, storytelling, and strategic planning.

International Arts Business & Nonprofit Management

Fee: $30-$50/hr

About: After several years working in the music business in Paris, Béatrice arrived in New Orleans to organize a French Festival in the French Quarter, showcasing the French heritage of New Orleans and Louisiana. Through many international artistic collaborations for the public and private companies, she is now working on her own to exchange and deepen cultural ties between her native land and her adopted city.

Motivated by art creativity, team work, and enthusiast about connecting people, she is responsible for a wide range of cultural activities and programs, linked with the French-speaking heritage and culture of the South.

Arts Administration, Theatre, Theatre Business, Nonprofit Management

FEE: $30/hr

QUALIFICATIONS: I have a degree in nonprofit leadership from Penn and additional training from the National Arts Strategies group. I specialize in helping grassroots level arts organizations get their footing under them and then scale their operations.

I am an experienced theatre producer in New Orleans and have produced more than 50 major productions in a large variety of venues, both traditional theatre spaces and environmental "found" spaces. I can help would-be producers and directors conceive how to work with a partner venue to create a meaningful and successful production.

ABOUT: The NOLA Project is led by Artistic Director A.J. Allegra. He is a founding member of the organization, along with founding Artistic Director and friend Andrew Larimer. Allegra has over thirty credits with the company as a director, writer, and actor and has been nominated for over twenty Big Easy Awards and has won two, for directing Assassins (2008) and acting in Mr. Marmalade (2009). Under his leadership, TNP has twice been awarded the National Theatre Company Award by the American Theatre Wing, has commissioned and produced 16 world premiere plays, and has formed many important cultural partnerships with area organizations, including The NOLA Project’s unique partnership with The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA). In 2012, he was named to Gambit Magazine’s prestigious 40 Under 40 List. He holds a BFA in Theatre from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, a Shakespeare in Performance Certification from RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts) in London, and an MS in Nonprofit Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania. He currently is a theatre faculty member at Lusher Charter School.

Fundraising & Nonprofit Management

FEE: $50/hr

QUALIFICATIONS: I have a 21 year history in founding and leading a celebrate community based cultural arts center and previous of that I have a 20 years experience of public sector human service planning, development, programing and fundraising.

ABOUT: New Orleans native, Co-founder and Executive Director of Ashé Cultural Arts Center, Bebelle is a constant voice and advocate for the primal role of culture in establishing equity, justice and compassion in American society. This learning and insight was derived from her first career in human service planning that spanned two decades. Her day-to-day laboratory for this work for 21 years has been the Ashé Cultural Arts Center where the day to day was created by the intersection of culture, community and art. Her new platform is AKUA Productions NOLA where her artist-self is more present in her efforts.