Sell more art, make more money, and do it with more ease.
- No art galleries.
- No art shows.
- No advertising.
- No complicated tech.
- No B.S.
Fire your rep. Find your niche with the proven 4-Part Code.
Apply NowWhat if you sold more art without:
- paying 30%-70% in sales commissions?
- spending time, money, and energy on ineffective art shows or art fairs?
- wasting time with people who aren't going to buy your art even if they're giving you compliments?
Selling your art isn't about being pushy.
- Real relationships equal revenue.
- Honesty is the best marketing strategy.
- Sleazy and or pushy sales tactic don’t work.
Even if you’re a full-time fine artist, making a sustainable living isn’t as easy as you may think.
Art shows are being cancelled, art galleries are going out of business, and eventually most artists fall out of favor with their representatives.
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When you learn how to sell more art and make more money without representation.
- You can generate 80% more art sales, on average, by leveraging proven luxury marketing sales strategies.
- When you sell direct to collectors you keep 100% of your money and save 30%-75% in sales commissions.
- Selling to collectors directly saves you the time, expense, and hassle of doing art shows. When you're referred to collectors they are 82% more likely to buy your art and spend more money. *
*Note. Representatives will not typically allow you to contact your collectors, even though this common practice is unethical and even illegal in many jurisdictions.
When you find your niche you can stop suffering on-going humiliating rejection.
- You'll face far less rejection when you focus on people who are 82% more likely to buy your art and spend more money.
- You can even turn rejections into art sales with solid luxury marketing and sales strategies.
- You won't be looking for approval or needing validation once you know your niche.
When you stop using confidence crushing strategies you have more time to create.
- You can avoid time-consuming, exhausting, and expensive mistakes with a proven process.
- You can side-step the middleman and focus on the fastest path to cash.
- You can stop procrastinating and second guessing yourself with our expert guidance.
When you stop trying to figure it all out by yourself you'll be more successful.
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How much time and money have you already wasted trying to figure it out all by yourself?
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Stop competing with snobby jealous artists in juried shows and art contests. The only ones who win are self-appointed judges and organizers.
- Not having expert guidance costs you a significant amount of money, time, frustration, and self-confidence year after year.
Most people believe that successful fine artists are represented by prestigious* art galleries but this is rarely the case.
* Prestigious comes to us from the Latin word praestigiosis, meaning "full of tricks" or "deceitful."
Are you one of the few fine artists selling their art? Congratulations!
There's no greater validation and inspiration than selling your art.
Do you have a plan to sell more of your fine art
or are you only hoping or praying that your art will sell?
Are there times when you've felt like giving up?
When a true artist abandons their art a part of their soul dies.
If hope is your marketing plan, WARNING.
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The IRS, or your taxing authority, could deem your art a hobby if you're not making a profit from the sale of your art within a specific time frame.*
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You can't take tax deductions on art costs and expenses for hobbies.
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Without tax deductions, it will be impossible to make a sustainable living from your art.
* Please consult with your tax advisor.
4 Reasons Why You’ll Struggle To Sell Your Art
Reason #1
You think that you need to sell yourself.
You're not for sale just because your art is for sale.
If you believe that you must sell yourself, you'll feel conflicted when you try to sell your art, and your approach will be awkward and ineffective.
Reason #2
You're discounting or donating your fine art.
When you discount or donate your art you immediately devalue it and damage your reputation because your prices lack integrity.
If you're not confident in the price of your art you'll tend to hide your prices, discount and donate your art, and you shouldn't expect to be paid.
Reason #3
You're not using luxury marketing.
The affluent, not mainstream consumers, purchase fine art.
You are not your customer. Conventional sales and marketing strategies will fail.
Luxury marketing and sale strategies are required to sell fine art and you must know your niche.
Reason #4
You are acting on inexperienced advice.
One of the most expensive and time-consuming mistakes is acting upon advice from people who have not successfully sold their fine art or even made art.
When this lousy advice doesn't work, you can become so discouraged and skeptical that you can't even recognize sound advice.
Do you know what the scarcity and permission-based art establishment doesn’t want you to know?
People who care about art care about the artist, not the middleman.
Making Art
Making Money is helping serious fine artists who have sold their art start:
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selling more art
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making more money
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doing it with more ease
Making Art Making Money isn’t just the leading business program for fine artists since 2005.
We're a global movement of 23 types of fine artists from 23 countries and counting.
We're taking our power back from the scarcity and permission-based art establishment.
Apply NowHow is Making Art Making Money different?
Designed To Support Super Busy Artists
Making Art Making Money is designed for super busy artists who don't have time for fluff and who want practical strategies that are working today.
By employing micro-learning our program is 50% more interactive and engaging to students. Transfer of knowledge is 17% more efficient.
Closed-captioned video lessons and quizzes are less than five minutes long so that artists can implement what they're learning at their own pace.
Our mobile-enabled platform makes learning accessible.
Learn when you're on the go.
Leading Fine Artist Business Program
Founded in 2005, Making Art Making Money is the leading and most reputable program of its kind.
We're serving 23 different fine artists from 23 countries and counting.
Artist Ann Rea is a nationally recognized San Francisco-based artist, and she walks her talk.
Rea takes a proven, practical, and no-nonsense approach to mentorship. She is on a personal mission to help other fine artists find their niche so that they can sidestep the broken art establishment.
Someday is today and you deserve the best.
Graduate By Earning Back Your Tuition
Students graduate from Making Art Making Money by selling enough of their art to cover their tuition at a minimum, as featured by Inc. Magazine. *
According to the most recent survey 81% of all graduates earned their Making Art Making Money tuition investment back through the sale of their art within a year.
Graduates saved money in sales commissions, art show, contest fees, discounts, and donations.
- 26.7% of graduates saved $0-$2,499
- 33.3% of graduates saved $2,500-$4,999
- 21% of graduates saved $5,000-$9,990
- 19% of graduates saved $10,000-$39,950
What if you received support from a community that refused to let you fail?
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Join Ann Rea's Weekly Live Classes
- Get unstuck, get focused, get encouragement, and get going.
- Have all of your questions answered along with the other fine artists on this journey.
- If you can't attend live you may submit your questions in advance, and Ann Rea will record the answers.
Join Our Private Facebook Community
This is a different kind of Facebook group, it's one where you'll meet other artists who want to see you win.
As each artist succeeds it shows everyone else how they can too.
- gain direct access to Ann Rea
- ask questions
- share wins
- receive feedback
- make new friends
Gain A Solid Support Network
We use Peer Learning, a proven and effective learning modality because it:
- helps you focus on understanding rather than memorizing
- fosters collaboration and cooperation among students
- inspires friendships
You can have as many Study Partners as you choose to meet with on video calls.
Many graduates feel that the friendships they've gained are alone worth the price of admission.
Imagine
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Imagine commanding higher prices for your art by creating clear value above and beyond your art.
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Imagine that the people who mattered most were you and the collector, not the critic or the middleman.
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Imagine sharing inspiration and support with other artists instead of competing with them.
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Imagine taking your power back from the scarcity and permission-based art establishment.
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Imagine being with artists who are not buying into the story of the "struggling artist" instead they maintain their confidence and dignity.
This is not for you if:
- You're a beginner, and or you are looking for representation.
- You're desperate for money or hoping for a get-rich-quick scheme.
- You're snobby, mean, passive-aggressive, dishonest, jealous, rude, snarky, whiny, or entitled. You don't play nice with others.
- You're feeling fragile emotionally or psychologically.
- You're unwilling to take full responsibility for your success and or failures.
This is for you if:
- You're ready to take your art sales to the next level.
- You've realized that if you could have figured it out by yourself you would have done it by now.
- You're willing to put some of the same dedication you have for your art into your sales and marketing.
- You're looking for an authentic approach that's grounded in integrity.
- You're willing to follow directions and ask for help when and if you need it.
Graduate By Selling Your Art
- Unlike online courses, you'll graduate from this comprehensive program by earning back your tuition investment, at a minimum.*
- According to our most recent survey, 81% of all Making Art Making Money graduates earned their tuition investment by selling their art within one year.
*As featured by Inc. Magazine as an innovation in advanced education.
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100% No-Risk Guarantee
Your success is our success. We’ll work with you until you’ve earned back your tuition investment by selling your art. All we ask is that you complete the lessons and assignments within six months.
Making Art Making Money was designed as a 90-intensive, so you'll have plenty of time.
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