Professional Development at Creative Waco

04/28/2022

Got questions about how to protect your creative work from copyright infringement? Attend this free webinar.

On May 16, from 2pm to 3:15pm ET (1pm - 2:15pm CT), the Copyright Alliance and Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts (TALA), in partnership with the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), will host a panel titled "Learn About the Copyright Claims Board". The Copyright Claims Board (or....

03/15/2022

Is social media marketing all it's cracked up to be? Or could it even be counter-productive to real business goals? See what Tara McMullin, founder of What Works, thinks.

03/08/2022

"Marketing Your Art Business Online," another interesting-looking, affordable web series to consider.

Join us for a series of virtual workshops to help artists, arts workers, and creative entrepreneurs present your work online and connect with the audiences that resonate with what you do.

03/08/2022

Trying to figure out how to maximize Instagram for your creative business? This looks like a good opportunity at a reasonable price ($25).

Creating authentic Instagram content can be a challenge–even a chore. In this workshop for visual artists, Robin Cembalest will review strategies for posts, Stories, Reels, hashtags, highlights, and for maximizing the power of that mysterious algorithm.

03/04/2022

"Art is a form of devotion, and, like all acts of devotion, it is not functional or sensible. It is a kind of tending, a cultivation. It is medicine. It is both price-less and priceless: a poor fit with monetary value and beyond monetary value. What art making earns is best measured in invisible, invaluable currencies. Connection, awareness, reverence. Reinvention, possibility, truth telling."

OK, y'all. Two things I'm doing these days: I talk to artists one-on-one, and lordy, it is damn moving and reassuring. The struggles, the devo...

02/15/2022

"Do you use apps like PayPal, Venmo, or Square to accept freelance business payments? If so, you’ll need to pay close attention to the new tax reporting changes affecting these platforms that go into effect this month, especially if you do a significant amount of business through them."

Updates from the IRS on tax due dates and other changes for 2022.

02/10/2022

Have tax questions about your arts business? Attend this free two-part webinar!

Presented in partnership with Fresh Arts and Austin Music Foundation TALA’s popular annual seminar is back for 2022 with a two-part online webinarfeaturing TWO CPA’s. Join us for both nights to get the complete content. It’s important to be up to date with...

01/27/2022

Have a legal issue or question? Talk to an attorney for free through TALA's Arts Legal Line, coming up 5:30-7:30pm February 1.

Participants can call from anywhere in Texas between 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. to get arts related questions answered by a TALA volunteer attorney.

01/26/2022

"[Makers] are able to achieve stability on their own terms, if their lives aren’t disrupted.... For all the forces arrayed against them, it’s amazing how resilient artisans have been over the course of centuries, readily adapting to adverse circumstances."

In an unstable gig economy, does craft offer a remedy?

01/09/2022

This is a great resource from CERF+, The Artists Safety Net, which helps artists recover from and prepare for disasters and emergencies of all kinds. The toolkit is designed primarily to help visual artists and craftspeople "protect the health and safety of themselves, their studios, and their art businesses" but performing artists will get a lot out of the material as well.

Studio Protector is our toolkit for artists looking to protect the health and safety of themselves, their studios, and their art businesses.

01/06/2022

These and other classes offered by Springboard for the Arts are on Zoom, free, and AMAZING. Start your arts business strong this year by investing some time in learning.

Springboard is open! Join us this month for Work of Art’s J-Term Business Skills for Artists series, Art-Train Individual Artist Training, Small Business Law workshops for BIPOC and Native creatives and much more.

Explore this month’s offerings and sign up at https://springboardforthearts.org/events/

01/04/2022

Ben Davis looks at the movements that defined 2021 in the art world, and how they may evolve in the year ahead.