SERVICES
Sheetal Prajapati performing an interactive artwork, Closer, 2016. Photo: Beatriz Meseguer.
Any potential project or advising service begins with a free consultation call to determine your goals and needs. Lohar Projects’ practice is as much experience-based as it is research-based. I work as a boutique agency that aims to find the right pathways to address your specific needs. You can find a list of Services offered below and I welcome you to reach out to talk about customized advising.
Email me at sheetal@loharprojects.com to set up a call.
Organizational Planning
For organizations growing or in transition that need a strategic plan or long term approach to make significant change. Consulting during growth or transition periods, working directly with leadership, staff, and key constituents to build a sustainable path forward — board and staff development, strategic planning, or broader change work.
Fractional Leadership Services
For organizations in need of temporary or project-based executive leadership to ensure financial, operational, or programmatic continuity. Interim executive leadership that oversees staff, works with the board, and keeps the organization financially and programmatically stable through any transition, providing continuity and care when it matters most.
Group Facilitation Services
For teams that need working sessions to bring ideas together to solve problems or map a path forward together. Facilitation for think tanks, planning sessions, retreats, and goal-oriented gatherings — with board members, artists, or your audience — to lead change, design new programs, or work through strategic visioning together.
Research & Evaluation
For organizations that want to understand the needs of their contitents and how their work is or can address that now and in the future. Research and evaluation services to develop, assess, or guide project-based work — building an evaluation approach and conducting the research to help you understand your goals and their real outcomes.
Leadership Development
For boards and executive teams restructuring or building skills from within. Strategic advising to develop executive skills and guide internal restructuring, transition, or growth across board and staff leadership.
Public Engagement Planning
For organizations that want to start new intiatives to engage with new communities, artists or other publics. Advising to guide your team through development, planning and implementation of new programmatic initiatives serving your primary constituents - from residency programs, partnerships and conferences to community outreach.
One-on-One Advising and Mentoring
For emerging and mid-career artists and arts professionals in need of guidance, feedback or career planning to identify and meet their goals. One-on-one consulting for career and creative development, studio visits, portfolio review, addressing challenges, and mapping a long term plan.
Professional Development: Seminars and Advising
For organizations that want to bring creative and career development directly to their own community. Small group seminars for artists and professionals, previously developed and presented for Creative Capital, Kresge Arts in Detroit, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Print Center New York, Santa Fe Community Foundation, and other artist-centered initiatives. New seminars and programs can also be built to speak to your organization's specific constituents. Seminar offerings have included:
Mapping Your Practice
A 90–120 minute workshop guiding artists through Reflection, Goal Setting, and Planning to map a path toward their own career and practice goals.
Building Agency for BIPOC Practitioners in the Field
A 90-minute session helping artists and art workers who identify as BIPOC build tools for moving through their work sustainably.
Some Budget Basics: Valuation and Project Budgeting
A 60-minute session giving contractor and freelance artists a rubric for setting pay rates and building a project budget.
Writing For Opportunity: Resumes and CVs
A 60–90 minute seminar on constructing or improving a professional resume or CV.
Writing Your Artist Statement/Teaching Statement
A 90-minute seminar on structuring or improving an artist or teaching statement.
Seminars are recommended for groups no larger than 10. Sessions include reflection, writing and group exercises.