Business and Professional Communication Quarterly Jun 2019

Artist Communication: An Interdisciplinary Business and Professional Communication Course

Stephen Carradini

Abstract

The arts have not received much attention from business and professional communication (BPC) scholars who are interested in workplace communication. This article begins to fill that gap by explaining a course focused on the BPC that artists produce in their careers. Students learned BPC genres by addressing arts situations: They crafted email pitches to promoters, took promotional photography, created crowdfunding proposals, and more. I argue that teaching artist communication can give a new context to existing BPC assignments, encourage interdisciplinary initiatives, and allow for the incorporation of natively digital communication genres into existing courses.

Journal
Business and Professional Communication Quarterly
Published
2019-06-01
DOI
10.1177/2329490619826113
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Topics
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