Check in at the desk, get hand-outs, ask questions now. Get coffee. Meet your fellow artists.

Elizabeth Hulings will open the Conference with an introduction to its purposes, hosts, speakers, and sponsoring organizations. She'll focus on the event's core assumptions: Art is a business, and artists should run it.

Carolyn and Elizabeth will overview the powerful changes in the market that set up the context for everything else we'll learn.

Get at your "why" and turn it into a clearly defined goal that advances your career and gets you more of what you want.

Build your art business plan. Good intentions are like crying babies; they should be carried out immediately. Goals without execution are a dime a dozen. Goals that get acted upon are the result of continually taking the next right step. Those are the ones we tell our grandkids about. This workshop helps you break down a pivotal goal into an action plan, so you can be relentless about always taking the next right step.

This is a great opportunity to bond with other artists. Be back on time!

Artists and corporate employees have something in common: all that time spent in the studio/office on the immediate goals limits the ability to acquire powerful relationships that advance our long-term objectives. It also shortchanges one's social life. Those aren't separate realities–they're the same problem. This workshop will give you tools to form powerful relationships with other artists in ways that facilitate shaping your own market, industry, and professional destiny.

All the things that stop us from achieving our business objectives are not random–they are interrelated. Identify the culprit as an external force to be overcome, and achieve your dreams as an artist.

Now that you've acquired new skills and clarity, update your action plan to more closely suit your professional goals.

This closing session summarizes what we've learned, provides some helpful next steps, and asks for your input, which will help shape our next Art Business Conference.

Let's have some fun. Where are you with your sales strategy? Are you willing to let us use your strategy as an example? Bring your cases. Carolyn will take on 2 cases to help you crack the part you're struggling with and increase your revenue.

Time to decompress, have a glass of wine, and make future plans to meetup and continue working together. Let your hair down, and relax at our after-event event.