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Starting in January, 2022, Helms Design Center will present smARTalks 2022, a monthly educational event series designed to empower and inspire visual artists and creative professionals.

smARTalks will comprise 12 intimate lunch-and-learn sessions for professional development in the arts, covering timely and important topics vital to artists practicing in the 21st Century.

smARTalks programming will cover pressing topics such as:

  • The Creative Economy
  • Trends in Public Art
  • Race and the Arts
  • Exploitation in the Arts
  • NFTs, AR, VR, AI
  • Effective Use of Social Media
  • Trauma and the Arts

Event speakers and moderators will include top artists and experts from Los Angeles and elsewhere. (Confirmed speaker list to be announced soon.)

Each smARTalk session will be a 90 min educational seminar followed by a social luncheon.

smARTalks will occur once a month on Saturdays from 10am-1pm at Helms Design Center in Culver City, CA. (See schedule below)

smARTalks are intimate events with just 75 seats available each month. Tickets for each session are $95. All registrants will be invited to a special Holiday Party held at Helms in December 2022.

Only 75 tickets are available each month for smARTalks, so get your tickets now while supplies last. (Note: Event dates will not change but programming topics could.)