Teaching the Business of Art: A Guide for Facilitators (Free PDF)

Teaching the Business of Art: A Guide for Facilitators (PDF Version)

PDF of Teaching the Business of Art: A Guide for Facilitators

THIS GUIDE provides an overview of each chapter of the Business of Art, 3rd Edition workbook, and tips for using it in a cohort learning context. For a successful experience with this facilitator’s guide, familiarity with the workbook is essential. If your participants are unable to purchase The Business of Art book, we recommend providing them with the free digital book or PDFs of relevant chapters.

For each chapter, we have provided several sections:

• Key terms
• What to take away from this chapter
• Group engagement and discussion prompts
• Further resources (and/or) next steps

This guide was written for artist-entrepreneurs and those who want to help individual artists thrive. This guide may be for you if any of the following are true:

• You are an artist with facilitation experience
• You identify as a teaching artist or educator
• You are a Business of Art alumni
• You are a member or leader of a community who would benefit from the Business of Art
• You work in creative economic development and want to spark learning among your constituents
• You would be likely to put this curriculum into practice as a group learning facilitator, coach, book club organizer, etc.
• You live in a community where you can help develop entrepreneurial capacity where it is needed but not readily available

We hope you will take the suggestions that we offer here and adapt them for your own needs, and the needs of the community you are serving. You probably won’t have time for all the prompts provided in this guide, and we hope you’ll bring ideas of your own!