I’ve been brewing an idea for a while now that’s gotten me very excited.
For the past several months, I’ve been getting private messages from artist’s reaching out with questions. They’ve been asking, “Can you help me to promote my art online?” or “is there a way to expand my sales even if galleries are closed?”.
Prior to this, I had truly been missing my role supporting artists and helping them sell great art. I love working with creative people and troubleshooting business problems with them.
As many of you know, I left an amazing dream career I had built to focus my support on Brian, my husband that was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic melanoma. At that time he was given 12 months to live. Well, Brian is an inspiration to his doctors, friends and all who know him. He is still battling this cancer (5 years since the first diagnosis) with an intensive natural regimen and at this time a targeted therapy with his oncologist.
The more I worked with the artists reaching out to me, the more my wheels began turning to discover a way to recreate my professional role supporting artists. I envisioned a place where we could build a community to learn and grow together. This online place would promote sound business practices, share art industry trends and most importantly be a hub for personal interaction that supports creativity and art sales.
Those who already know me, know I approach my projects full out- this is no exception.
I’m excited to think about where an online artist resource and community dedicated to supporting artists with solid business skills and tools could lead us in 1 year, 3 years, or 5 years from now. THAT is what gets me excited! It’s the progress we could all make by working together with such a tight focus.
Going into this there is one thing I know...I can’t do it alone and I don’t have all the answers. There are many things I still need to work out. But the vision is there. That’s why I’m reaching out to you to help me shape this idea.
I’m asking if you would contribute ideas on how we can make this THE best online resource and community for artists - artists that want to not just make cool art but also excel as a professional artist. Let me know the areas that you need help with, what your struggles are or what skills you know you need but don’t know where to start. Likewise, tell me the stories of successes you have had. Since the shutdowns, these successes might be fewer but they hint to the new way art is being seen, promoted and sold. I intend to focus on this new era of selling art. I expect some of the best topics to cover will come from you and others that join our community.
I am officially launching the Prosperous Artist Academy website along with the Prosperous Artist Academy Facebook page. The website will be home to resources, downloads, information webinars and an artist business blog. Your ideas and problem troubleshooting will be a well of inspiration for the content I cover. The Facebook page will be home to our artist community and support group and where I will be doing live Q&A sessions. Please follow these links, click to follow Prosperous Artist Academy and then share with any artists that have aspirations to do more with their art.
To start, I have created a guide to help with building the foundation of a successful art business, The Successful Artist's Business Guide. This free download is the first of many resources I will create- with your input, of course. Please download it, tell me what you would like to see next and share with your artist friends.
Here’s to our success! I’ll see you soon!
All my best,
Cynthia
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