NYFA Coaching and Consulting

Building a Sustainable Life and Career

Alyson understands the depth of commitment it takes to be an artist, the challenges we face, and the isolation we feel.

In this series, she will help you adopt strategies to work towards your goals, articulate your purpose, expand your visibility, and nurture professional relationships. You’ll leave with a greater sense of how to advance your career and build a sustainable creative life.

$320.00 / Package of 4

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About the Coach

Alyson Pou

Artist and Founder, Creative Capital’s Professional Development Program

For 30 years, Alyson has helped artists and arts professionals clarify and carry out their professional goals. She understands the depth of commitment it takes to be an artist, the challenges we face, and the isolation we feel.

Alyson can offer strategies and insights on:

Career Planning
Art Business Strategy
Artist Statements
Project Proposals
Grant Applications

Alyson Pou is a multidisciplinary artist, arts professional, and advocate passionately committed to working with artists and organizations to help them realize their vision and purpose. She offers consultation and coaching for a wide range of artists and arts professionals to help them articulate their own vision and purpose, set goals, and implement

During her tenure at Creative Capital, a national organization that supports the work of innovative artists, she played a key role in developing its programs. As Director of Programs and Services, she created and implemented the Artist Services Program and oversaw the awards process for more than $12 million in grants to 242 artists’ projects. As Founding Director of the Professional Development Program, she designed and implemented an education model to provide business and life management skills for artists in all disciplines. Under her leadership, the program partnered with over 100 arts organizations nationwide to help more than 30,000 artists in 700 communities pursue their creative purpose and career goals. During her years at Creative Time Inc., she commissioned and produced hundreds of ambitious public art projects throughout NYC.

Pou maintains an active artistic practice of installation work and performance that is deeply rooted in storytelling and women’s history, making use of movement, text, and objects to create an immersive visual and theatrical experience. Her work has been presented in New York City at The New Museum, The Bronx Museum, Artists Space, Performance Space 122, and Danspace Project at St. Marks. Pou has received grants from Art Matters, Inc.; NYC Department of Cultural Affairs; and the National Endowment for the Arts; with commissions from Deutsche Bank and the Atlanta Arts Festival. She has lectured at numerous museums, galleries, art centers, and colleges around the country. She is also the recipient of the New York Dance and Performance Award (aka The Bessie Award) in the category of Choreographer/Creator.

When you book your session

This is a package session with multiple meetings! On the next page, please book all your appointments at once. To book multiple appointments, select your first time slot, then click Recurring > Add a time > Select desired 2-4 appointments. You’ll be prompted to share information with your coach. Consider: what would you like to discuss? What are your goals for the session? When you book, you’ll have the opportunity to provide this context and/or share any relevant materials you'd like your coach to look over. They will then review these in advance, and provide feedback during your conversation. Your sessions will take place virtually over zoom in Eastern Time (ET). Once you book, you will receive a confirmation email with the zoom link.

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