Session One: Business Fundamentals for Artists

Description:

This 60-minute presentation is designed to demystify the business planning process for artists. Many creatives shy away from business planning, feeling it doesn’t align with their vision or values, but a well-structured plan is the foundation for a sustainable creative career. This session will guide artists through understanding and structuring essential components of a business plan tailored to their unique goals, values, and artistic style.

Session Two: Marketing Essentials For Artists

Description:

Marketing doesn’t have to feel like a chore. In this 60-minute session, artists will learn essential strategies to market their work effectively and authentically. This presentation will cover marketing strategy basics, audience targeting, and choosing platforms. Artists will also learn how to craft a personal brand that reflects their unique voice and message.

Session Three: Selling Art with Confidence

Description:

For artists, sales can feel intimidating, but learning how to sell confidently is vital for career sustainability. This session will provide actionable strategies for selling art, setting prices, and developing relationships with potential buyers. The focus will be on shifting the mindset around sales, making it a natural and empowering part of the creative process.

Session Four: Ask me Anything- Creative Business Q&A & Support

Description: As you wrap up the program, this session is your opportunity to get personalized support for wherever you are in your creative business journey. From refining your business idea to tackling mindset hurdles, marketing questions, or sales strategies, bring your challenges and curiosities. This interactive session is designed to meet you right where you are and provide clarity, encouragement, and next steps.

We will also have demonstrations and displays available demonstrating how to package your art for a clean and professional look. 

Learn to draw the human form accurately and expressively. Students will learn tech-niques to translate the model’s proportions and pose onto paper, emphasizing the under-lying structure as well as the details of the figure. This work shop series will have nude models.

All levels welcome.

learn to Assemble your Origami into cool 3-D Sculptures,

All Paper, No Tape, No Glue! With Instructor Ace Phelps the Paper Wizard!

All Skill Levels Welcome

February 14th

2PM-4PM

February 21st 

2PM-4PM

Lto Assemble your Origami into cool 3-D Sculptures,

All Paper, No Tape, No Glue! With Instructor Ace Phelps the Paper Wizard!

Join artist and instructor Eric Westbrook in developinng and improving your landscape painting skills. Classes will be February 28th, March 7th, & March 14th from 2:00-4:30PM and can be taken as a series or individually. 

Eric Westbrook is a painter, illustrator, and art instructor living and working in the Washington DC area. Current and former teaching venues include The Yellow Barn at Glen Echo, The Smithsonian, and VisArts in Rockville, MD.

Join artist and instructor Eric Westbrook in developinng and improving your landscape painting skills. Classes will be February 28th, March 7th, & March 14th from 2:00-4:30PM and can be taken as a series or individually. 

Eric Westbrook is a painter, illustrator, and art instructor living and working in the Washington DC area. Current and former teaching venues include The Yellow Barn at Glen Echo, The Smithsonian, and VisArts in Rockville, MD.

Join artist and instructor Eric Westbrook in developinng and improving your landscape painting skills. Classes will be February 28th, March 7th, & March 14th from 2:00-4:30PM and can be taken as a series or individually. 

Eric Westbrook is a painter, illustrator, and art instructor living and working in the Washington DC area. Current and former teaching venues include The Yellow Barn at Glen Echo, The Smithsonian, and VisArts in Rockville, MD.