Professional Development Workshops
As part of our commitment to increasing capacity for artists, the Eastside Arts Society offers affordable professional development workshops for artists throughout the year.
Our workshops are $20 for 2026 Eastside Culture Crawl artists and $25 for non-Crawl artists unless they are listed as free.
2026 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ARTIST’S
WORKSHOPS
TAXES FOR ARTISTS
CONTRACT LITERACY FOR ARTISTS
AN INTRO TO AI TOOLS FOR VISUAL ARTISTS
Location: On Zoom
Date & Time: Feb 12, 2026 @ 2:00pm PST
This webinar, on filing taxes as a self-employed artist, is offered through the Canada Revenue Agency.
Taught by Canada Revenue Agency Liaison Officers
Location: On Zoom
Date & Time: March 11, 2026 @ 7:00pm PST
Understanding contracts is essential for artists and creators in protecting their work and against liability and damages. Lawyer Martha Rans will demystify legal terms and conditions that need to be a major part of your business as an artist.
Taught by Martha Rans, Q.C.
Location: On Zoom
Date & Time: March 18, 2026 @ 7:00pm PST
This workshop on generative tools for visuals offers a critical overview of existing corporate, big data solutions, focusing on ethical, open source, tools.
Taught by Lionel Ringenbach & Philippe Pasquier
Platinum Partners
Gold Partners
Location: On Zoom
Date & Time: May 24, 2023 @ 7pm
This workshop introduces participants to the process of establishing an online presence to promote their art practice. Participants will learn about artist statements, documentation, and other important website content, as well as how to use accessible, pre-built template website options. This workshop will explore how to create a dynamic website presentation that showcases their work and experience.
Taught by Jess MacCormack (They/Them)
Jess MacCormack is a queer, mad artist and white settler working on the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sə̓lílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Their art practice engages with the intersection of institutional violence and the socio-political reality of personal trauma. Working with communities and individuals affected by stigma and oppression, they use cultural platforms and distribution networks to facilitate collaborations which position art as a tool to engender personal and political agency.
They have an MFA in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies from the Bauhaus University (2008) and were an Assistant Professor of Studio Arts at Concordia University (2010-2013). Jess is currently an instructor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and will begin a PhD at SFU this fall.
