Keep your workshops personal. Image: Jonathan Borba, Pexels.
You may be considering taking on teaching art workshops to boost your cash flow as the economy softens. Yes, workshops can be profitable, but they also have other advantages. In disguise, they are also a fantastic way to boost to your own creative process – and to relieve artist’s block. Here’s why:
Beginners are not bound by convention and tend to engage in original techniques and approaches that experienced artists may overlook, or not think of. Everyone benefits – you as well as your students – through fresh thinking.
Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW.
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