by admin-eric | Oct 9, 2015 | Fine Arts America
Step 2. Don the mantle of leader When you run a successful art class, workshop, or retreat you are doing more than presenting information or sharing techniques. You are leading. Leadership is not a quality we usually associate with teachers or with workshop leaders...
by admin-eric | Oct 2, 2015 | Fine Arts America
Step 1. Embrace the Logic If you’re a working artist who loves making things and who has little patience for other pursuits why would you want to run art classes, workshops or retreats? Won’t they cost you time and energy that you’d rather devote to making art? And...
by admin-eric | Sep 25, 2015 | Fine Arts America
Sometimes the simplest ideas are the most powerful and the most useful. One such simple idea is getting to your art before your “real” day (of a day job or similar responsibilities) begins. Many people already do something during this “before the day begins” time:...
by admin-eric | Sep 17, 2015 | Fine Arts America
Selling to Tourists: Louise’s Workshop Let’s create a hypothetical watercolor artist by the name of Louise and place her in a particular locale—let’s say the art tourist town of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California—and see how she might go about selling to tourists. Step 1....
by admin-eric | Sep 11, 2015 | Fine Arts America
There are many ways that artists can connect with tourists, from creating hands-on workshops and promoting them to tourists to renting prime space and staging an exhibition. Imagine that you are a visual artist. You might: + Create a workshop specifically geared to...
by admin-eric | Sep 4, 2015 | Fine Arts America
Artists want to connect with tourists. But tourists also want to connect with artists. Currently tourists crawl through the exhibits of a great museum as much because it is an obligation as it is a pleasure. But if they encounter Mongolian chanters, Andean flute...
