The Launch The College of Aspiring Artists NIL League— Sports, Music, Fashion, Publishing, Edutainment, Arts...

Innovation has Arrived Inside the Creative Economy. We just concluded our three-day Creative Economy NIL Summit at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute. 

The College of Aspiring Artists Name, Image, Likeness (NIL) Edutainment League is prepping to launch with our Subject Matter Experts leading the way.  July 12 is set for enrollment for our Fall 2025 startup. 

~New Career Pathways in Entertainment and Edutainment for the Nation Have Arrived with High School and College Students ... 

~From Dumas, Little Rock, and the Delta to DC, Parents and Students Learn the Business of Sports, Music, and Creative Careers, and Now... Getting Paid along the Way.

Who Should Attend~

*Students in the Sports, Arts, Creative and Innovative Career Pathways: See how this becomes a stronger bi-vocational career opportunity as you earn while you learn.   

*Parents and Guardians Who Want to Learn the Business end of the industry and to earn alongside their Family

*Coaches and Counselors Who Want to be Knowledgeable of How Their Students Can Prosper by Being a Part of the NIL 

*Corporate Leaders, Governmental Agencies, Foundations desiring to Eradicate Poverty and Provide Grant Assistance to the Program

Happenings at the Summer Launch:

1. The College of Aspiring Artists (TCAA) is the institution of enrollment into our Association of Aspiring Talents in Sports, Music, Arts, Creativity, and Innovation. TCAA, like the NCAA, is focused on getting new talents ready for the major markets and professional careers.  This market now includes high school and college aspiring talents. Now with NIL, this history is (American History) at work. And the workforce development programs get more work and increased outcomes for their programs.  Now from our unique college model, opportunities that were once only available at the professional level are now being advanced in high schools and colleges. Our new model helps both talent and their close family and business network to optimize their full potential... and it's not just sports, TCAA brings our years of success with music and entertainment careers into this NIL space. 

2. Through multiple processes, TCAA brings curriculum and sponsors from profit and non-profit sectors. Our work has been documented successfully, including the Arkansas Arts Council in the following reports (Arkansas Creative Economy Project) In these reports, TCAA, The College of Aspiring Artists, is listed as a member institution of the Arkansas Creative Economy Panel and is spotlighted as the new edutainment college model. The visuals pictured here show TCAA on the cover of year one and other significant credits beyond the study. A close look at our model is in the attached report, “Creativity in the Natural State outlines a clear narrative on the meaning of the creative economy.’  The study was overseen by The Arkansas Arts Council, The Arkansas Association of Two-Year Colleges, and Arkansas Science and Technology Authority. Currently, TCAA is one of few of the programs studied that has done credible work inside the creative economy. 

Funding was led by the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation and other partners investing millions of dollars to oversee. We have done several successful projects and collaborations. This new development model has the greatest impact potential to date. It enrolls family members and other individuals who will learn the business of sports and music entertainment to further the talent and new agency and management skilled and subject matter experts who can all share knowledge and revenue-sharing from these new career pathways. Imagine employees gaining insight as they support their families.

3. This new tri-vocational model has poverty reduction through new career pathways based on the Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) opportunities for aspiring high school and college talents; sports, music, theatre, spoken-word, innovative creative ideas such as coding, fashion, cosmetology, etc.  

Recently, TCAA with other partners wrote and received a grant award from USDA in 2019, the Rural Economic Development Grant (REDI). This grant covering the entire state further equips TCAA to advance poverty reduction and wealth creation opportunities. 

4. Activation: Opening Summit March 23—25, (concluded) included entities/organizations/individuals convening for planning and strategy to introduce and place this high school and college creative economy NIL initiative in a tri-state region, beginning in Arkansas as listed below. 

“TCAA Creative Economy, NIL, and Edutainment Planning Summit (AKA- The Huddle)”

This is the exclusive place where College Sports, Music, and Creative Careers are Now ‘PRO (Professional) Careers!’ Contact the host for details at: ceo@thecollegeofaspiringartists.eduction 

{A first look and enrollment: Courses-Talent Incubation-Monetizing and Wealth Creation for the Talents, Agent, and Management Team} 

High School and College Eligibility for 3—8 State Region: {AR, MS, TN}, LA, AL, OK, TX, MO, IN, DC

Excerpts from the Creative Economy Reports 

See below, the historic Advisory Panel where TCAA's Founder, Arthur Hunt served on the panel for the 3-year Study. Also see a graphic of an Innovative Galleria that The College of Aspiring Artists set up and operated in an Arkansas Mall.