BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Art Biz Success
Art Biz Success improves careers with art-based marketing. Programs help creatives to build a profitable art business by gaining recognition, staying organized, automating, and selling more art with different offerings.
Behance
Behance is the leading online platform to showcase & discover creative work. It builds a community of creatives’ original works and helps users display their talent in the form of profiles and projects.
Creative Resources
Creative Resources aims to provide artists with expert-advised knowledge, skills, tools, and platform to market and sell their art successfully.
Lori McNee
As a workshop instructor, Lori shares social media techniques, fine art tips, and business of art strategies for maximizing artists’ output.
Portfoliobox
Portfoliobox helps build beautiful and unique portfolios, which can be easily shared with the world using its software’s tools.
Wix
Wix helps to promote business, showcase artwork, open stores and start blogs. The Wix Website Builder, which requires no coding skills provides hundreds of templates and unlimited pages.
Artsy
Artsy makes the art world accessible through auctions, partnerships with galleries, sales, and a beautifully curated blog. As an artist, one can meet collectors, receive art world news, build auctions, and get inside the head of a collector.
Calgary Economic Development (Film & TV)
Calgary Economic Development's Film & TV division collaborates with creatives to provide opportunities, embrace shared prosperity, and build a strong community that achieves economic success.
Format
Format has everything photographers need to showcase their work and grow their business. It offers portfolio designs, which make works truly shine.
MarkUp
MarkUp is a visual commenting social platform that allows users to drop comments on design elements in real-time.
Skinny Artist
Skinny Artist is a community of creatives who share their collective wisdom, art world experiences, and business and marketing strategies to help others sell their work.
WordPress
WordPress helps create free websites and blogs with ease. It offers dozens of free, customizable, mobile-ready designs and themes, as well as free hosting and support on its platform.
Artsy Shark
Artsy Shark inspires every artist in a personalized way to build a better art business. It provides marketing and sales strategies to artists looking to develop their small business, and features amazing artist portfolios.
Canadian Freelance Union
Canadian Freelance Union is highly responsive to issues of freelancers and uses fresh approaches to connect the best freelancers across the country as well as those just getting started in the industry.
Google Arts & Culture
Google Arts & Culture is a non-commercial initiative to preserve and bring the world’s art and culture online for ensuring accessibility to anyone, anywhere.
Pastel
Pastel is an online proofing tool that enables designers, copywriters, editors, and developers to provide and receive feedback on websites.
The Abundant Artist
The Abundant Artist is committed to helping artists sell their artwork with self-study courses, group coaching, and a community of artistic professionals.
Working Not Working
Working Not Working connects the world’s most creative artists with individuals and companies.