Dear Artist,

Hint: The first step to success is learning what you need to learn. 

Artist Jina Kim

Making Art Making Money Student

Before: "Before I joined the program, my top two challenges were lack of confidence and not knowing what to do."

Now: "The biggest result of this program during COVID, during isolation right now, is to sell 11 paintings. What! I sold 11 paintings! I still cannot believe that it happened, and I have two more commissions coming.

I feel like crying."

Anya Warda 

Making Art Making Money Student

Before: "I only knew what the art establishment and the art school told me: art contests and galleries. That's all I knew. So I had no idea what else to do, and whatever I was doing, it wasn't working."

Now: "So I have sales every single month during the pandemic. I have never had that in my whole life. This is big for me every month, February, March, April, May already.

I sold! I made money."

Artist Debbie Dicker

Making Art Making Money Student

Before: "It was that lack of confidence and which didn't match my abilities."

Now: "I just like buzzing with the excitement for where I'm going to go from here. This is more than just my business. This is about me."

Artist Matt Harline

Making Art Making Money Student

Before: "Before I joined the Making Art Making Money program, I had a brain injury a few years ago and focused myself and thinking of the right words. I'm still having this problem."

Now: "So now it is mid-May, and I've gotten close to $2,000 so far this year. I mean, it's not a huge amount by any stretch of the imagination but it's double!"

Artist Leah Smithton

Making Art Making Money Student

Before: "I didn't know where to start first, what order to do things in. And I wasn't sure how long to try something to know whether or not it's working."

Now: "The time that they spend on the fence, they just aren't going to be able to get that back. So if you go ahead and do it now."