The Thriving Artist Podcast

Working artists can be both student and teacher; this is the basic premise of Art Cantina, an online portal described as the Match.com of arts education. For Carolyn (Charlie) Bogusz and LaVonne Ewing, artists need a platform to market and brand their skills as potentially both experts and instructors. Meanwhile, students want easier access to arts education. Art Cantina allows students to find workshops in their local area and desired discipline, and helps them establish (if they wish) a teaching business to support their studio practice. Topics include:Business DevelopmentMarketing your own classes & finding studentsWhy the art world needs its own Airbnb or Match.comPricing your work and pricing your classesFrom selling expertise to selling art onlineDisruption, Connections, and SilosThe “starving artist” stigma and alternative income sourcesThe stigma of online art marketsContinuing Arts EducationThe working artist as studentArt schools vs. informal arts educationLaVonne EwingLearning and mar