Artist Career Training Classes By Phone, e-Books, and Recordings
Learn how to market your art and make more money so you can go back to making more art.
New Live Classes for 2010:
Five Things Artists Should Consider Before Deciding to License Your Art
How to Find and Interact with Manufacturers Who License Art
Keeping Up With Trends and Building Your Art Licensing Brand
Recordings and Workbooks of Past Classes:
Anatomy of a Call to Artists and the Art in the Round Contest
Feed Your Whole Mind - Tap Into Your Whole Being, Make Art Marketing Fun
Giclées: Tiny Dots on Paper
How to Attract More Sales and Generate Cash Flow
How to Catch a Greased Pig - Getting a Grip on Your Art Business
Making Money as an Artist: Taking Charge of Your Bottom Line
Out of Your Head - Ideamapping™ is a Non-linear Way of Organizing Your Thoughts
Pricing Your Art with Confidence
Sell My Art! Finding & Keeping Effective Representation
Tapping Your Inner Strength – Perseverance
The Ins and Outs of Juried Shows
What I have learned as a Gallery Dealer that I wish I had known as an Artist
TeleClass, Live, March 10, 2010
Five Things Artists Should Consider Before Deciding to License Your Art
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. Pacific
$29.95 includes TeleClass Outline and recording if you can’t make it.
Click here to save your spot.
There are many ways to make money with art, licensing is just one. "Licensing" means that you chose to give manufacturers the right to put your art on their product in exchange for a royalty. You maintain the control and copyrights to your designs, and you can license the same art to several manufacturers at the same time. But how can an artist tell if licensing would be a good fit for their art and for their lifestyle?
Register now to learn how to make the right decision for you and your art...
Tara Reed has been licensing her art since 2004 and sharing her experience with others since 2008. Join us to hear the five things she thinks can help artists give licensing a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down". Make this small investment of time and money to save yourself time and trouble – and maybe open up new income possibilities.
TeleClass, Live, June 9, 2010
How to Find and Interact with Manufacturers Who License Art
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. Pacific
$29.95 includes TeleClass Outline and recording if you can’t make it.
Click here to reserve your spot.
So you have decided to earn an income licensing your art to manufacturers who will put your art on products. Now what? How do you find companies that license art? Do all companies license art?
Many artists have a lot of questions and inner-turmoil around this step of the art licensing process because let's face it: it's sales and marketing. Register now to learn how to find and interact with manufacturers to license your art.
Tara Reed has been licensing her art since 2004 and sharing her experience with others since 2008. Tara has a degree in marketing and background in sales before launching her own art licensing business. Her experience can help you find your way into licensing!
TeleClass, Live, September 14, 2010
Keeping Up With Trends and Building Your Art Licensing Brand
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. Pacific
$29.95 includes TeleClass Outline and recording if you can’t make it.
Click here to save your spot.
Learning to watch the marketplace, predict art and color trends and build an art brand will help you succeed in art licensing. Trends are especially important when creating art that goes on products. If you can recognize a trend in its infancy you could create art that does very well in the marketplace.
Equally important is building a brand so both manufacturers and consumers understand who you are, what you do and what you stand for. Register now to learn how to watch for trends and build your brand to license your art.
Tara Reed has been licensing her art since 2004 and sharing her experience with others since 2008. Tara Reed's business background and personal experience with trends and branding in the art licensing industry will help shorten your learning curve. Her experience can help you build your success and your brand in licensing!
Class Recording and PDF file
What I have learned as a Gallery Dealer that I wish I had known as an Artist
Digital recording of live class with on-line gallery dealer and artist Kathy Swift.
Buy now for $29.95 (Includes live TeleClass recording and PDF outline .)
So you are smart, organized and make a well-designed, well-crafted piece of art. You researched which galleries to work with. Some took your work, some didn’t. With those you do work with, sales are slow to non-existent. What went wrong? Kathy Swift gives you the inside story on how to get gallery love and how to avoid being taken for a ride.
Class Recording and PDF File
Giclées: Tiny Dots on Paper
How do you make more profit from each original you create? How do you make more money if you can’t make more work? How do you offer a wider range of your art to collectors who don’t have the budget for your originals?
One answer to these questions is to make fine art reproductions. You can leverage your talents and your budget, and still sell originals. That’s like having your cake and eating it too.
Class Recording and PDF files
Out of Your Head
Being creative can bring the "curse" of idea overload. Ideamapping™ is a non-linear way of organizing your thoughts and notes. Adapt your recordkeeping to the way that you think, instead of cramping your style. This visual note-taking and brainstorming method is a fun, easy way to get your thoughts out of your head and on paper.
Class recording not available at this time.
Feed Your Whole Mind
Artists who show and sell their work must wear many hats that are unrelated to making art. If you bring only part of yourself to the business side of art, it can feel like drudgery. Learn how the six stages of creativity can tap into your whole being and make art marketing a creative and enjoyable activity.
Class Recording
Anatomy of a Call to Artists
plus the Art in the Round Contest
Martha Wooldridge is the owner of BeautifulBowls.com, a creative meeting spot for artists, collectors, businesses, and art enthusiasts. In her mid-forties, Martha was ready to move away from the typical 8-5 job. Sound familiar?
Learn more about how Martha did it...
Class Recording
How to Attract More Art Sales and Generate Cash Flow
A.C.T. Mentor and fine art photographer Bruce K. Haley, Jr. is a living example of how to grow an art business by night while being employed by day. Diversification is one of Bruce’s ways of attracting more sales. And you don’t have to be a photographer to learn from his examples. If you are, that’s a bonus.
Class Recording & Handout
How to Catch a Greased Pig - Getting a Grip on Your Art Business
We are surrounded and bombarded by fast and furious changes. It’s like trying to catch a greased pig. Fast, slippery, and changes directions constantly. How do you know what’s out there and what to focus on? How do you understand it all and not spend a ton of time on it?
Three Recordings, Workbook
Making Money as an Artist: Taking Charge of Your Bottom Line
by successful artist Pat Fiorello
Three Digital Recordings of this Info-Packed 3-Part Series with Workbook, or,
52 page E-Book/Workbook.
Both products include five worksheets to profit from your listening or reading. Both are designed to empower artists to be clear about your economic reality and take charge of your financial health. It will help you uncover blind spots where your history with money may be limiting you today, get clear on your actual financial results and guide you in developing a realistic plan to achieve your financial goals. The end result is that you make more money and keep more money.
Pricing Your Art With Confidence
with successful artist and author Alexandria Levin
Three Digital Recordings of this Info-Packed 3-Part TeleSeries plus a 25 page E-Book.
“Pricing Your Art - Overview” and “Pricing Your Art with Confidence" (Part 1: "Math is Your Friend” and Part 2: "Balancing Value and Price with the Market.”)
The majority of art schools do not include pricing in their classes. Indeed, some perpetuate the myth that pricing is a dirty business not suited to the temperaments of fine artists. Being an artist is a vocation. You work hard and put in the time, so you have the right to make a living making art.
Stop playing guessing games to price your art.
Click here to learn how this guide can help you get paid a fair price for your art.
Class Recording
Sell My Art! Finding & Keeping Effective Representation
Join A.C.T. Art Business Mentor, Margaret Danielak, art rep and author of A Gallery without Walls: Selling Art in Alternative Venues for a riveting TeleClass on finding and keeping effective representation.
Class Recording & Handouts Coming Soon!
Tapping Your Inner Strength – Perseverance
with artist and author Alexandria Levin.
“Perseverance means that your essential identity is that of being an artist. Nothing changes that; no life circumstances, no economic lows, no outside criticism, nothing ... If you are truly an artist you never give up. You don’t listen to those outside voices that say to quit - ever. You only listen to your muse - your inner voice. You create and grow no matter what."
Read about tapping your inner strength...
Class Recording
The Ins and Outs of Juried Shows
This was a most thorough and honest review of the nerve-wracking jury process from both sides of the fence. If you are not doing as many exhibits, then work on your business skills and qualifications in the meantime. Avoid wasting time, money and energy entering juried shows that are just not right for you!
Sometimes one class just isn't enough. You want more information, a community of artists and experts on call to help you build your career.
See membership page for info on registering or call Aletta de Wal at 650-917-1225.
And see more opportunities to learn at Conference Call University: www.cculearning.com