March 13 | SXSW 2011 Panel | AUSTIN, TX

PRESENTERS: Brendan Harkin [ Founder, XMediaLab ]
·Jason Manley [ President, The Art Department ]
·Lorne Lanning [ President/Co-Founder, Oddworld Inhabitants ]
·Rick Boyko [ Director, VCU Brandcenter ]
·Jaclyn Havlak [ Executive Producer, The Art Department ]

Ask any working artist striving for more than "avoiding starvation", and they will probably agree that the path to individual creative success is a seemingly never-ending journey of small but glorious accomplishments, devastating failures of epic proportions, and a series of life lessons learned the hard way. It's safe to say that each artist, at one time or another in their "creative life", finds themselves aspiring to achieve their personal dreams by studying the ways of those they find most inspiring. The paths to their individual creative success are closely documented and can be taught and adapted in the pursuit of your own ambition. See beautiful content along with the story of the founding, development and resulting global creative success of the multimedia triptych comprised of Conceptart.org, Massive Black and The Art Department and that of the individual award winning artists. The paths to success are known and while each individual journey is unique, these proven methods and ideals will help any artist or firm in their efforts to make it - not break it.

Photography courtesy of Phil Holland