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
GRANT WRITING SUCCESS
SOCIAL MEDIA BASICS FOR ARTISTS
DOCUMENTATION & PRINTING FOR ARTISTS
Location: On Zoom
Date & Time: April 16, 2025 @ 7:00pm PST
Are you ready to level up your grant writing skills? Join us for this online event where you’ll learn all the tips and tricks to secure funding.
Taught by Mary Ann Anderson (Little Dog Creative Consulting)
Location: On Zoom
Date & Time: April 22, 2025 @ 7:00pm PST
In this workshop attendees will gain a solid understanding of social media tools (Meta products, Canva, and OpenAI), and how to effectively use them for content creation and engagement. We will cover topics ranging from the basics of each tool, current opportunities and challenges, and posting strategies and performance metrics.
Taught by Saghi Ehteshamzadeh
Location: Parker Street Gallery
Date & Time: April 24, 2025 @ 3:00pm PST
This workshop will cover a range of essential topics related to art documentation and fine art printing, including requirements when documenting your own photos and when hiring a professional photographer to achieve print-quality images. Additionally, the workshop will provide an overview of print materials and products, and marketing strategies tailored for artists to help improve sales and visibility.
Taught by Alan Somerville of Fidelis Art Prints
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.
