Making Art Making Money
Learn how to sell more art without feeling like a sell-out.
Stop Competing with Other Artists
The only competition that artists should enter is the contest for their collectors' time and attention.
Stop Guessing Who Wants To Buy Your Art
Start learning who wants to buy your art, why they want to buy it, and how to find more people just like them.
Stop Hoping To Sell Your Art
Defining your art sales goal and writing a plan to achieve it increases your odds by 152%.
Join Supportive Global Community
Join our warm and welcoming global community free of competition, jealousy, and snobbery.
Double Your Focus & Confidence
The average graduate triples their level of focus and self-confidence, from 2.5 to 8, on a scale of 1 to 10.
Sell Your Art To Graduate
Graduating means you've earned back your tuition through the sale of your art at a minimum.
People who care about art care about the artist, not the middleman.
We know that you want to be a successful artist who feels confident and focused.
The problem is that art galleries are closing, and art shows are canceling. Many artists are uncertain of where to start to sell more art.
We believe that scarcity and permission-based art establishment is broken. Representatives art taking 50% or more in sales commissions and the they are discounting art.
We know that art galleries are forcing artists into exclusivity agreements which is preventing artists from selling more art.
We know that representatives are not allowing artists to contact their collectors. Thus, artists can’t build relationships with their collectors and cultivate referrals to other collectors.
We believe that real relationships equal revenue. Artists can sell over 80% more art through referrals, on average, and keep 100% of their money. Referral sales are easier, more organic, and they don't feel pushy.
We know that people who care about art care about the artist, not the middleman. Affluent collectors always make money, in up and down markets. The pandemic has them remodeling and or relocating and they are buying art today.
We understand that traditional sales and marketing strategies don’t work for artists. Artists don’t sell goods or services. Our product is emotion. Right now, there’s a lot of inspiration.
15 Years of Practical Experience
Gain 15 years of practical expertise of marketing and selling fine art.
23 Types of Emerging & Established Artists
Join 23 types of emerging and established artists.
Artists from 20 Countries & Counting
Make friends with study partners from 20 countries and counting.
How are we different?
Two years after graduating from art school Ann Rea stopped making art. She had to start making money to pay back her student loan debt.
Sixteen years later, she decided to turn her dream of being an artist into a plan. Ann quit a dull corporate job and moved to San Francisco. She wrote a plan to sell over $100,000 of her art during her first year as a full-time artist. Ann sold $103,246 at art with no representation, no connections, and no support.
Ann Rea is on a mission to help artists take their power back from the scarcity and permission-based art establishment.
Ann's vision is to help over 10,000 artists learn how to sell their art without feeling like a sell-out in less than ten years.
Ann Rea's art, and business savvy, have been featured on ABC, HGTV, Creative Live, The Good Life Project, in Career Renegade, and by the San Francisco Chronicle, Art Business News, Fortune, and Inc. Magazines. Her mentor, Wayne Thiebaud, an art icon, praises her artistic talent.
Making Art Making Money students who are selling more art through the pandemic.
Are we a match?
We're a match if:
- you've sold your art and you want to sell more.
- you understand that you're not going to be “discovered.”
- you're done trying to sell yourself.
- you're friendly and coachable.
- you're willing to trust a proven process.
- you're willing to spend two to three hours a week learning.
- you're willing to work with Study Partners, of your choosing.
- you're emotionally strong enough to express your true self.
We're not a match if:
- you're unwilling to follow directions and you hate technology.
- you're looking for representation.
- you're looking to get rich quick.
- you believe that you need to be discovered to succeed.
- you're unwilling to examine your limiting beliefs.
- you're unwilling to learn from your inevitable failures.
- you're snobby, dishonest, jealous, rude, whiny, or entitled.
- you've so skeptical that you're not open to expert help.
How does it work?
- You'll graduate by selling enough of your art during your final project to pay for your tuition, at a minimum.
- During your final project, you'll start to determine your unique niche.
- You'll sell your art, or you won't. But you'll learn why you did sell your art and why you didn't.
Enroll Below
Making Art Making Money is a program for busy people.
Learn on the go with lessons that take less than five minutes each.
Schedule of two to three hours a week to learn. Implement what you're learning at your own pace.
Make New Friends
Join a warm and welcoming global support network free of competition, jealousy, and snobbery.
You won't be alone. You can choose as many Study Partners as like.
You'll learn and encourage each other. Maybe you'll make some new friends?
Measure Your Progress
Start to confidently pricing your art for profit.
Track how much money you're making in art sales and how much money you're saving by side-stepping false opportunities for "exposure."
Would you like some help?
Let's chat now in Facebook Messenger
We'll ask you a few questions to see if we can help.
If we feel that we can, we will.
If we don't feel that we can, we'll be honest with you, but we'll try to point you in the right direction for free.
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Ask yourself aloud.
"Will I really be better off trying to figure this out by myself?"
You can either spend your time or money but you’re never going to get your time spent back.
