Creative Capital Artist Lab is an online professional development curriculum designed to help artists working at any career stage, and in any discipline, build thriving practices. Courses and videos are available in English and Spanish, with ASL interpretation.

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Creative Capital Artist Lab is free for individual, personal use. Interested in integrating Artist Lab for your institution? Join as an Institutional Member.

See our Artist Lab Terms of Use.

Online Courses

Creative Capital Artist Lab online courses are created by art professionals, industry experts, and fellow artists who share vital concepts, skills, and tools to grow artists’ careers. Courses are delivered through Zoom lectures and discussions, long-form videos, and text-based learning formats in English and Spanish. Artist Lab includes exercises, tips for best practices, and case studies that can be taken at participants’ own pace. 

Videos include ASL and Spanish interpretation, as well as CART services. View courses by registering for Artist Lab.

 

Learn practical writing, administrative, and promotional skills necessary for a professional career in the arts.

Topics include: 

  • Artist statements, bios, and resumes
  • Project proposals and descriptions
  • Artist talks and elevator pitches
  • Websites and social media

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Access practical information on managing money with the particular financial needs of artists in mind.

Topics include: 

  • Basic budgeting
  • Self-employment and managing multiple income sources
  • Saving and investing 
  • Financial planning for families

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Watch an Artist Lab by a certified public accountant, personal financial specialist, and accredited financial counselor on filing taxes as an artist.

Topics include: 

  • Federal income tax basics 
  • Common deductions
  • Record keeping
  • Saving for retirement

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Watch a series of Artist Lab conversations and discussions that illuminate the nature, challenges, histories, and ideas around collaboration and interdisciplinary artistic practices.

Topics include: 

  • Integrating technology into performances
  • Museum work
  • Public engagement

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Watch an Artist Lab on working with audiences within and beyond traditional spaces. 

Topics include: 

  • Ethics of working in community
  • Reaching an expanded audience
  • Models for engaging audiences

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What Artist Lab participants are saying:

“Thank you so much for this offering. This is exactly the type of assistance and information I’m seeking right now as a newly independent artist.”—Lisa, Augsburg, NY

“These presentations are awesome and very appreciated! Information that would take weeks to gather and vet is simply organized and presented.”—Jill, New York, NY

“Great information from a trusted source, to the point, timely, memorable, actionable. Thank you!”—Tony, Nashville, TN

“Thank you so much for this offering. This is exactly the type of assistance and information I’m seeking right now as a newly independent artist.”—Lisa, Augsburg, NY

 

Become an Institutional Member

Creative Capital welcomes academic institutions, museums, galleries, foundations, nonprofits, and cultural organizations to join as Institutional Members to help sustain and advise on the ongoing development of Creative Capital Artist Lab for their communities. Institutional Members will be invited to join the Artist Lab Design Committee, receive a complimentary sponsored listing in Creative Capital’s Artist Opportunities, and have their institutional logo featured on the Artist Lab webpage.

Institutional Membership also enables your institution to integrate Creative Capital Artist Lab into teaching materials, syllabi, classroom exercises, and to share broadly across your organization, and where applicable, with alumni, artist residents, and grantees. 

For more information, email [email protected]

Become an Institutional Member

Institutional Members

“We could not be more excited for this partnership…We both believe professional education is key to helping artists build their careers.”—Linsey Bostwick, Director, NYU Production Lab

“[This] is an invaluable program that gives artists the tools they need to succeed in their careers. This series of free, online courses provides crucial knowledge to artists at every stage, and we are proud to partner with Creative Capital on this important initiative.”—Beth Cochems, Program Director, Pollock-Krasner Foundation

Disclaimer: All content produced by Creative Capital Foundation on this site is for educational purposes only. Creative Capital does not provide legal, accounting, financial, tax or investment advice.

Creative Capital’s website, courses, and educational content contains links to other third-party websites. Such links are provided only for the convenience of the user. Creative Capital and its institutional members do not recommend or endorse the contents of the third-party sites.