Free Recovery-Focused Financial & Business Webinars
ESSEX COUNTY, MA
With the COVID-19 pandemic’s devastating effect on practicing artists, Assets for Artists has redesigned its business and financial education programming to provide artists with recovery-focused, distance-learning opportunities that largely retain the intimate cohort-focused style of our in-person workshops. Let’s come together to discuss current challenges, relief efforts, and opportunities for artists’ financial futures.
These workshops are only open to artists who currently reside in Essex County, Massachusetts, and are thanks to a partnership with the Essex County Community Foundation’s Creative County Initiative.
All workshops are FREE and held via Zoom, with pre-registration required to keep the webinar cohorts at a size that maximizes participation and peer support.
Learn about Assets for Artists’ accessibility resources
for artists who live with impairments and disabilities.
Taxes for Artists w/ Amy Smith
Wednesday, March 17, 2021 | 2:00 - 4:00 PM
For decades, Amy Smith has prepared taxes for artists, taught financial well-being workshops, and coached artists one-on-one. This webinar will cover the basics of taxes for artists, including separating personal and artistic finances, Schedule C filing, self-employment versus employment, and tracking deductions. This webinar will have a particular eye toward artists’ current financial challenges and the ways in which the CARES Act and more recent pandemic relief acts will change taxes this year. Amy Smith is an educator, professional tax-preparer and the former Co-Director of Headlong Dance Theater, a Bessie-award winning Philadelphia-based dance theater company.
Suitable for artists of all disciplines.
Attendees of this workshop will be offered free 1-on-1 business coaching with Assets for Artists’ staff.
The Art of Licensing w/ Allison Cole
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Allison Cole is an award-winning illustrator, artist and surface designer who never stops creating. Over the past fifteen years, she has worked with a wide variety of clients that span many different industries, including stationery, wall art, giftware, apparel, home furnishings and bolt fabric. In this webinar participants will learn about the industry of surface design and art licensing, and discover how artists can get their designs on a wide variety of products by partnering with different companies. They will learn about marketing and branding their work, reaching clients and setting achievable goals.
Best suited for 2D visual artists.
Attendees of this workshop will be offered free 1-on-1 business coaching with Assets for Artists’ staff.
“Making a Plan in a Time of Uncertainty” w/ Laura Baring-Gould
Thursdays, May 20 & 27, 2021 | 2:00 - 4:00 PM
(this is a TWO-part webinar experience)
Over two webinar sessions, artists will develop the building blocks for a strategic plan for their creative career. This highly interactive course will help artists examine their goals and values, inventory their skills, and practice budgeting with an eye to maximizing opportunity and stability in the midst of crisis. Laura Baring-Gould's practice includes award-winning installations, public artworks and small bronzes sold in galleries, juried shows and through private commissions.
Suitable for artists in all disciplines.
Attendees of this workshop will be offered free 1-on-1 business coaching with Assets for Artists’ staff.
Our Essex County programming is made possible in partnership with the Essex County Community Foundation’s Creative County Initiative. Our broader Massachusetts programming receives additional support from the Barr Foundation, the City of Boston, the Deborah Munroe Noonan Memorial Fund (Bank of America, N.A.,Trustee), and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts through the Massachusetts Growth Capital Corporation.