Art is a Business, and Artists Should Run It
The marketplace is changing—not just technology, but HOW art is marketed, bought, and sold. You, the Artist, are at the center of this. Take charge of your career, mesmerize your audience, maximize your extraordinary professional advantages, and Sell-Sell-Sell. This is going to be an amazing event. Tickets are on sale now.
Join Us for This Important Learning Event
Registration also includes Colleague-level access to CHF's Digital Learning Portal.
Price: $395
The team at CHF have diverse backgrounds and are able to organize a curriculum that applies to many artists across several mediums regardless of their career stage. I highly recommend utilizing their online resources and attending their conferences.
Alejandro Castanon
Painter
The conference exceeded my expectations. My goal was a 101 class about the business of art, but this was much, much more. It was so informative and forced me to expand my thinking in a creative way.
Seetal Varughese
Mixed Media Artist
The Art-Business Conference gave my wholesale business the jumpstart it needed ... The workshops were informative, motivating and eye-opening. I recommend this event to all passionate artists who want to make a living doing what they love.
Alene Geed
Jewelry Designer
Artists & Makers Studios
11810 Parklawn Drive, Rockville, MD 20852
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Shape Your Own Art Career
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Deliver Your Powerful Message
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Sell – Sell – Sell
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Maximize Your Advantages
Conference Leaders
Elizabeth Hulings
Director, The Clark Hulings Fund
Elizabeth Hulings, daughter of famed artist Clark Hulings, is the founder of The Clark Hulings Fund for Visual Artists. Elizabeth is a strategist who drives organizational achievement by insisting on clarity of purpose, detailed planning, and conclusive action. Her leadership at The Clark Hulings Fund brings practical business training and strategic toolsets to working artists who are not provided those things by art or business schools, but who increasingly require self-reliant entrepreneurial skills in the evolving marketplace.
Carolyn Edlund
Sales Director, The Clark Hulings Fund
Carolyn Edlund’s background includes owning a production ceramic studio for 20 years, selling extensively at retail and wholesale. Subsequently, she spent several years as an outside sales rep for art publishers, and paper and gift lines. In 2009, she launched Artsy Shark, which is recognized as a “top ten” art business blog. She does extensive private consulting for artists, has written seven e-courses on the business of art, and authored hundreds of related articles.
Daniel DiGriz
Corporate Storyteller
Daniel DiGriz is a corporate storyteller who writes a Forbes column, hosts podcasts, and is a charismatic speaker at national conferences. Daniel leads organizations and entrepreneurs to find and deliver their brand narrative to motivated buyers and constituents.
Roundtable Participants
Our panel discussion, on Sunday at 12:30pm, will feature the following experts:
Blake Conroy
Prior to joining CHF’s Art-Business Accelerator in 2017, artist Blake Conroy had a full-time job at a leading foundry in Maryland, helping other artists realize their visions while creating his own work on the side. Now that he's completed year two of the Accelerator, Blake has realized his objective of leaving his day job to focus solely on growing his own art practice, which involves creating and layering metal and paper laser-cuts of his own intricate drawings to shine a light on the complexity of our environment. He has embarked on joint projects with various artists, participated in a paid artist’s residency in Belgium, and had his work featured in various solo and group shows around the US.
Donna Lee Nyzio
CHF Accelerator Fellow Donna Lee Nyzio has worked extensively with museums and private groups to build her brand as a painter who is capturing and preserving America’s maritime history. Based in Beaufort, North Carolina, Donna is capitalizing on the success she’s achieved in her coastal community to take her art career to the national level. Collaborating with a nonprofit that shares her mission, she’s been been producing events to promote a joint project, and applying for residencies and funding to support these efforts. In the past year, her work has been shown in various national and international shows.
Kristin LeVier
An MIT-trained molecular biologist, sculptor Kristin LeVier now uses her extensive scientific knowledge to create fine art that shines a light on the depth and complexity of the natural world. Her two years as a Fellow in CHF’s Art-Business Accelerator have helped to transform the way she manages the business side of her practice, targeting her marketing efforts at an audience that is particularly passionate about science, medicine, and natural history. After just a few months in the CHF program, Kristin made more sales than she had the previous year, and her increased profile led to her work being included in exhibitions across the US.
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