Highlights: 2022 gave the CHF community so many wonderful opportunities to reconnect in person and online. In the first quarter, we rolled out our new name and brand.

• In the first quarter, we rolled out our new name and brand.
• Daniel DiGriz rebuilt our website from the ground up, truly reflecting the vision behind the organization, capturing our accomplishments, goals and capabilities, and integrating our virtual campus online programming into a beautiful new home base for what has always been a digital enterprise.
• We also extended our virtual capabilities back into the real world.
• In this way, we continue to move forward instead of reverting to pre-COVID ways of working.

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Highlights: At the end of 2021, CHF became The Clark Hulings Foundation, bringing clarity, alignment, and even more passion and determination to our role as educators and community-builders.

• Highlights: At the end of 2021, CHF became The Clark Hulings Foundation, bringing even more clarity, passion, and determination to our role as educators and community-builders.
• Pivotal Project Accelerates: We’ve continued working with glass artist Terri Albanese as A Garden of Gratitude has grown into a 6-stop traveling exhibit to honor healthcare workers.
• Isolation to Inclusion: FREE virtual programs supported artists through another pandemic year. Peer networking Brown Bag Lunches; skill-building Thriving Tuesdays™; and Evenings With Hulings Virtual Salons.
• 360 Degrees of Curriculum: 139 art-business courses in our Virtual Campus; intensive training in Email Mastermind & Practical Tactical Entrepreneur Series; Artist Momentum groups; and 1-1 Mentorship.
• Interns, Alumni & Virtual Homecoming: Interns from Clark Hulings’ alma mater, Haverford College, became part of the CHF family; Fellow and Advisory Board Member, Kristin LeVier, initiated Art-Business Accelerator alumni gatherings
• CHF Gets Noticed: American Fine Art Magazine, Antiques and The Arts Weekly, Authority Magazine, Cowboys & Indians, Ignite Visibility, Prowly Magazine, Startup.Info, Western Art & Architecture, and Western Art Collector. 2 awards for The Thriving Artist™ podcast.
• Up to the Challenge: Susan & Steven Goldstein’s $25k Matching Challenge surpassed its goal; CHF’s NM Committee & Lynn Trojahn developed CHF Home Events in a Box, raising $10k and establishing a formula for fundraising success; The Stephen D. Zimmerman Memorial Fund honors an irreplaceable CHF founding board member.

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Highlights: CHF has had an amazing year. Because we have always been virtual, we are uniquely qualified to help artists and arts organizations pivot and thrive during the pandemic.

• Organizational Collaboration: Artspan, Cornerstones, The Heard Museum Guild, Naples Art Association, Southwest Association of Indian Arts (SWAIA).
• Virtualize Your Art Career Conference—Thriving in “The New Normal”: participants from 20 states, 3 countries, 14 sessions, 10 sponsors, 18 speakers.
• Art-Business Accelerator: 58 Fellows and counting. 4 Executive Fellows working on pivotal projects: Manuelita Brown, Steven Lester, Robin Holder, and Tim Saternow.
• Digital Campus: Major upgrade to our online learning platform to make it faster, easier to navigate, and more fun: 93 art business courses, 1,000 members.
• Brown Bag Lunch & Thriving Tuesdays^TM: monthly virtual event programming featuring peer networking and content-specific education at no charge to the artists.
• The Thriving Artist^TM Podcast: Listeners in 50 states, 137 countries, 148,000 downloads. Featured on all podcast platforms: Apple, Stitcher, iHeart, Spotify, Google.
• Hulings’ Legacy: James D. Balestrieri is writing a major monograph: Clark Hulings: Quantum Realist to be published in 2022 as part of the centennial celebration of Hulings’ birth.

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Highlights: CHF is unlocking the staggering potential of a world driven by creativity and connection—a world led by artists and innovators.

• Report on the Working Artist: ROWA charts the economic impact of the creative sector and proves that we are meeting artists’ need for entrepreneurial training.
• Art-Business Accelerator: 13 Fellows graduated in 2019, bringing the grand total to 58. 73% increased their income from selling art, and 67% increased prices or profit margin.
• Boots on the Ground Events: Ft. Lauderdale, Santa Fe, Rockville, and Stafford County workshops doubled the number of artists who received entrepreneurial education. Artists and industry professionals connected in Thriving Art Exchange events.
• Digital Campus: With options from online marketing courses, to a Q&A with an art publisher, to networking with other artists, we doubled the number of members and grew our audience by 20%.
• The Thriving Artist^TM Podcast: Host Daniel DiGriz’s interviews attracted a global audience, saw a 15% increase in downloads, and earned us a spot in iHeartRadio’s “Top 10 Podcasts to Inspire Artists.”

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Highlights: No matter how you slice the numbers, CHF’s impact has grown exponentially, helping artists boost their businesses.

• Art-Business Accelerator: By the end of 2018, ALL of the artists in our Art-Business Accelerator were clear about their career objectives; 75% increased their total income from making and selling art; and 85% now consider their art business their primary income source.
• Boots-on-the-Ground Events: We delivered face-to-face events in four different time zones, offering our business-development workshops to artists in Santa Fe and Dallas, and teaming up with partners in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Miami.
• Digital Campus: In one year, we’ve doubled our online audience AND the total number of registered members in our Thriving Art Exchange.
• The Thriving Artist^TM: Our syndicated podcast became available on six times more platforms than in 2017, and the number of downloads grew by nearly 90%.

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