Art Business 101 w/ Addie Hirschten

Class Title: Art Business 101 Instructor: Addie Hirschten Cost: $75 Time and date(s): Saturday 4/11 from 10:00AM-4:00PM (with lunch break) Location: Lecture Room in Art Lab Skill level: Any Audience: Adult Description: In this day long intensive workshop you will create a plan for your art business.  We will discuss the variety of ways you can sell your artwork and consider what will work best for you.  Topics covered will include marketing, designing websites, Etsy, blogs, email newsletters, writing books, art fairs, cooperative and traditional galleries, commissions, accounting, taxes, finding your perfect clients and more!  We will also create Vision Board Collages to reflect our future plans. Please plan on bringing a sack lunch or be ready to go out during our lunch break.  About the Instructor: Addie Hirschten is a contemporary impressionist painter, art teacher, author of several books and host of the Studio Alchemy Podcast. When working as an art instructor, Hirschten enjoys helping others to develop their own style and artistic voice, not just copy the instructor.  While developing curriculum for the art classroom Hirschten wrote the book, “The Alchemy of Art: Stories for the Classroom,” a collection of folktales and true stories about artists.  Other books written by Hirschten include “The Alchemy of Painting: Developing Your Style and Purpose,” “Start Selling Your Art: A Guide to Starting a Professional Art Business” and “The Alchemy of Symbols.” Hirschten has recently moved to Abingdon and is renovating an old church to be a home and art studio. Find out more at: www.studioalchemy.art https://www.instagram.com/alchemy.of.art.addie.hirschten/ https://www.facebook.com/studioalchemygallery/