Building Your Financial Future

Demystifying and clarifying money management strategies helps artists maintain agency over their earnings.

The Artist Lab course Building Your Financial Future focuses on managing money with the particular financial needs and circumstances of artists in mind. From taxes and retirement, to managing self-employment and multiple income sources, it offers practical and accessible tips and resources to help you organize your finances and bolster your financial confidence. This course comprises seven modules.

Each of the seven modules included in this course are designed to guide you through effectively managing various aspects of your finances, including budgeting, taxes, savings, paying down debt, investing, and developing short- and long-term financial plans.** These modules are asynchronous, meaning that all content is written and/or prerecorded, and that you can move through each module at your own pace.

Course Sections

1. Financial Planning for Creatives: From Taxes to Retirement
2. Basic Budgeting for Living Expenses
3. Self-Employment and Managing Multiple Income Sources
4. Saving and Investing
5. Credit and Debt
6. Financial Planning for Families
7. Money Mindset

What’s Covered

• Practice skills related to managing your money with confidence.
• Learn how to manage self-employment and multiple income sources.
• Learn strategies to pay down debt.
• Identify avenues for saving and investing.