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 2025 Eastside Culture Crawl artists and $25 for non-Crawl artists unless they are listed as free.
2025 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ARTIST’S
WORKSHOPS
TAXES FOR ARTISTS
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Location: On Zoom
Date & Time: February 12, 2025 @ 2:00pm PST
This FREE webinar will provide attendees with an overview on filing taxes as a self-employed visual artist in 2025. Attendees will also learn about how they can request free virtual one on one tax help with a Canada Revenue Agency’s Liaison Officer.
There will be no live Q&A, but questions can be submitted in advance until February.5th here.
Submitted questions will be shared with the presenters anonymously to help guide the webinar.
Taught by Canada Revenue Agency’s Liaison Office
Stay-tuned for more information!
Stay-tuned for more information!
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.
