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Side Hustles and Online Sales

Side Hustles and Online Sales
Artists’ incomes are not limited to art sales alone! Artists have many skills and talents beyond their studio practices -- we will talk about ways to use those to your advantage and generate revenue! Understanding how to do this without putting your visual art career at risk is the tricky part. In this workshop we will discuss some of the many ways you can use your creativity to support yourself and help sustain your practice: strategies for websites, edition information, licensing and options for online sales platforms, among many other avenues. If you have specific questions about balancing side hustles, sales and your studio practice, please email your questions and examples of your work to ninthstreetcollective@gmail.com prior to the workshop.

  • The workshop will be hosted on Zoom. Attendees will receive a Zoom link via email.

  • A portion of all proceeds will be donated to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, America’s premier legal organization fighting for racial justice.

  • Tickets: $30

  • Early bird pricing: $20 through October 1 with code NSC20
    Purchase ticket: LINK

About the Facilitator:

Courtney Childress co-founded yours mine & ours gallery in the Lower East Side of New York in 2016. Previously she was the Director of Life on Mars Gallery from 2015-2016. She worked for On Stellar Rays from 2010-2015, starting as an assistant and working her way up to Director at the gallery. During this time, seven of the artists in the gallery had major museum acquisitions and exhibitions, the gallery was written about by the New York Times, Art in America and Artforum. She has curated many exhibitions, most recently Tell Me Again by Eliot Greenwald at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY (2019); Static Limit by Esther Ruiz at yours mine & ours, New York, NY (2017); Water Sports by Todd Bienvenu at yours mine & ours, New York, NY (2017); Touching in the Dark - Mandy Lyn Ford and Sarah Faux at yours mine & ours, New York, NY (2016); 60 Minutes at Vanity Projects, New York, NY (2015) & Vanity Projects, Miami, FL (2015); and No Name at On Stellar Rays, New York, NY (2013). Courtney has worked on independent projects with Sarah Oppenheimer, JJ PEET, Rochelle Feinstein, Joan Snyder, Julia Bland and others. She received her MFA from State University of New York at Purchase (2011); Post-Baccalaureate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (2009); and her BFA from the University of Alabama in (2008).

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. is America’s premier legal organization fighting for racial justice. Through litigation, advocacy, and public education, LDF seeks structural changes to expand democracy, eliminate disparities, and achieve racial justice in a society that fulfills the promise of equality for all Americans. LDF also defends the gains and protections won over the past 75 years of civil rights struggle and works to improve the quality and diversity of judicial and executive appointments. For more information, please visit www.naacpldf.org.

Earlier Event: October 14
Artist CVs and Bios
Later Event: October 22
Creating an Unforgettable Press Release