Professional artists are faced with the unique challenge of working creatively every day, while also dealing with the same financial, technical, legal and marketing concerns many small businesses face. COSE aims to ease that burden for artists, so that they have time and energy remaining to do what they do best.

COSE has made its health care and professional development resources more accessible to the arts entrepreneurs of Northeast Ohio. The COSE Arts Network, in partnership with the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture (CPAC), creates an opportunity for the arts and business worlds to intersect through educational and networking events, access to resources and unique promotional opportunities.

Benefits of the COSE Arts Network membership:

• New Membership Level. COSE will offer new COSE Arts Network members a reduced annual membership fee of $225. This is made possible through the support of artist member dues, the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture (CPAC), Leveraging Investment in Creativity (LINC), the Ford Foundation and the Eva L. and Joseph M. Bruening Foundation.

• More Health Insurance Options.
  • Members have access to 19 different COSE health insurance plans that offer flexibility and choice, even for sole proprietors.
  • Some COSE Arts Network members may have unique needs beyond COSE's health insurance options. Members will be able to access a health care solutions database that contains both local and national information about alternative health care options for members to consider, and an assessment tool to help them find the best option to suit their needs.

• Professional Development. Opportunities for members to further their entrepreneurial development with:
  • Educational programming through COSE and partner organizations
  • Unique networking events
  • Online resources
  • Peer-to-peer groups
  • E-newsletter
  • Space Availability: access and discounted rates to meeting space and conference facilities

• Promotion. COSE Arts Network members will gain visibility through:
  • Profiles in the COSE Update and on www.cosearts.org
  • A membership directory
  • A listing service on www.cosearts.org
  • Member-to-member discounts on services and products
  • Educational and networking events
  • COSE Arts Network member exhibits and performances

• Eligibility:

  Current COSE members can join the COSE Arts Network at no additional cost. However, the reduced annual membership is available only to new COSE members. Current and potential COSE members are eligible for membership in the COSE Arts Network if they are:

  • Independent, professional artists (interpretive and originating).
  • Arts-based businesses that employ, exhibit, present or promote professional artists and have up to 10 employees.
  • Arts-based non-profits that employ, exhibit or present professional artists and have up to 10 employees.

  * Please note an additional administrative fee of $50 for the first year of membership. Receive a $25 discount on this fee by completing the COSE OneForm online at www.cose.org/oneform.