Center for Creative Entrepreneurship
Empowering creatives at all levels with the skills, knowledge, and relationships necessary for business success.
Welcome, we are glad you are here!
As creatives ourselves, we acknowledge the need for building supportive communities where we can thrive.
This site contains access to workshops and events, weekly job highlights, our weekly podcast, and our CCE membership opportunity.
As a CCE member you get perks like:
✔️ Mentorship from the CCE team and our music industry experts;
✔️ Free admission to events;
✔️ 15% discounts on Shure.com select purchases;
✔️Our “Make Money with Music” online course!
Upcoming! Music Bloom South Loop
Next Music Bloom location is Overflow Coffee - home to the former Vee Jay & Brunswick Record labels housing some of Chicago's prominent music figures from Jerry Butler, Gene Chandler, The Chi Lites, The Beatles, Gladys Knight and the list goes on. Over the past several years Overflow After Dark Productions (OAD) has put together countless community events paying homage and even highlighting and inviting back the artists to the space that came through the various label. Thank you, OAD, for being our November Music Bloom partner!
Join us for an exclusive workshop on how to generate revenue with Calid Bowen, and performance by Jae Via
Meet the CCE Music Cohort 2024 Artists
Naomi G
Julián Pujols Quall
Raphael Olivier
Kathleen Lane
Harley Omega
Jesse Garcia
The CCE Music Cohort is a hybrid 3 month program that cultivates next steps for independent artists to advance their professional practice.
The CCE Music Cohort 2024 program supported 6 artists based in the Chicago and Chicagoland area. See moments from the program in the gallery below!
2023 was about building supportive communities, creating cool events where we can talk about the industry and come up with real solutions. It was a year of amazing growth in which we brought programming throughout Chicago neighborhoods, announced our e-learning platform and our first music cohort.
Thank you to our partners and sponsors: Walder Foundation, Dell Technologies, Shure, Comcast Business, World Business Chicago, DCASE, Hughes Foundation,The Coleman Foundation and Arts Alliance Illinois.
The Recap Video of the Music Bloom Summit 2023
The video captured perfectly the spirit of that day, when we all came together to learn about Chicago’s music industry, discuss problems, solutions, support our music tech founders, learn how to navigate better this business with so many flaws, but worth all of our efforts!
Video by Castlelight Productions
Upcoming events
Browse our events to learn new skills, get a different perspective, and join the community of creatives!
Weekly Jobs and Opportunities
Global Industry Spotlight
Podcast
Now Streaming!
Initiated by singer-songwriter Camila Vick, The.BlkRoom was created as a haven for artists within her circle to foster their creativity. A close friend of Camila's, Senite Barih, who was heavily involved in performing and recording at the time, sought a space for her own creative endeavors and became a frequent patron. Since then, a beautiful partnership started.
Making Money With Music
Learn how to generate 300+ music income sources including live shows, royalties, sales, streaming, licensing, merch, fans, and more
Connect With Our Mentors
Get a one-on-one consultation with one of our mentors, when you become a member.
Bonus Articles
Making Money With Music Knowledge Base (Over 200 Articles!)
CCE Music Membership
Join the membership and access:
The “Making Money With Music” course, containing 11 music business topics, 67 classes and 200+ articles.
Mentorship from our Industry Experts.
Free admission to Events
Discounts from our partners at Shure
Free consultations with CCE team members
Available Course
Making Money with Music
We are proud to partner with Randy Chertkow and Jason Feehan to bring to our community one of their award-winning course, “Making Money with Music”!
Topics covered in the course:
Music Licensing
Music Royalties
Marketing and Promotion
Music Copyright
Products and Merchandise
Music Distribution
Release Strategy
and more!
“Chertkow and Feehan are the ideal mentors for aspiring indie musicians who want to navigate an ever-changing music industry.”
Our Sponsors:
CCE is a pilot project, fiscally sponsored by Arts Alliance Illinois and funded by the Walder Foundation. 2112 Chicago serves as programmatic lead, with ancillary support from partner organizations in each focus industry (Music, Film/Video, Dance, Theater, Fashion, Visual Arts/Design, Media, Sports, Culinary).
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