UPCOMING COMMUNITY

Contracts with Hope Mohr  

Wednesday, December 2, 1 PM – 2 PM ET 

Part of taking yourself seriously as an artist is advocating for contracts that value you and your work. Values-aligned contracts are the foundation of successful collaborations and professional relationships. This webinar is designed to help artists and creatives navigate the essentials of creating, understanding and negotiating contracts with confidence. 

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Hope Mohr (she/her) is a working artist and a licensed attorney. Her law practice, Movement Law, supports artists, changemakers, and mission-driven organizations. Hope works at the intersection of art and social change as a Fellow with the Sustainable Economies Law Center. She is a co-founder of the Artist Legal Cafe, an artist-led initiative that offers direct services and capacity-building support. Mohr has a law degree from Columbia Law School and a B.A. from Stanford.

After a professional dance career with Trisha Brown and Lucinda Childs, Mohr founded the nonprofit Hope Mohr Dance and its signature presenting program, The Bridge Project, which for over 15 years supported over 100 artists through commissions, residencies, workshops, and collaborative performance projects. In 2020, Mohr co-stewarded the organization’s transition to an equity-driven model of distributed leadership and a new name: Bridge Live Arts. Mohr’s book about cultural work as activism, Shifting Cultural Power: Case Studies and Questions in Performance, was published in 2020 by the National Center for Choreography. She is a contributor to the anthology Artists on Creative Administration (2024), edited by Tonya Lockyer and also published by the National Center for Choreography. hopemohr.org

Affiliations

Movement Law (Founder/Attorney): https://www.movementlaw.net/
Sustainable Economies Law Center (Fellow); https://www.theselc.org/
Artist Legal Cafe (Co-Founder/Project Coordinator): https://www.movementlaw.net/bay-area-artist-legal-cafe
Resources: https://www.movementlaw.net/resources