YOUR INVITATION TO THE ACADEMY AWAITS
Everything you wish art school taught you about being a working artist.
Find your path, gain community, build creative literacy, and become the artist we know you are.
COMING UP NEXT:
The Messy DIY Quest // Trying Edition
Got a project burning a hole in the back of your brain? DYING to just get started but unsure…how? Join us for the Messy DIY quest. 10 days, 10 emails, 10 creative prompts.
💬 The Academy Slack Channel
Made of artists, creatives, weirdos, entrepreneurs, and people who make things. Community! Connection! Woes! Creative prompts! Sharing resources! Post your latest works, get feedback from your fellow artists, + lots of love as we cheer you on!
🌱 Monthly project planning and community art making, In Process
Our monthly community hours for moving the needle forward, making art, and getting sh*t DONE.
✏️ Free quarterly workshops and trainings
To build out your creative business with the tools both your business + artist brain needs. Every quarter we build a workshop based on what you want to learn about. We all don’t know what we are doing. Learn in community with other artists! Take a peek at the Calendar Here.
✂️ Office Hours
Opportunity each month to ask Phoebe and Jacque, plus a community of creatives, the pressing questions like… Does this sales page make sense? How do I deal with this client? What do you think of this colour blue? Chat it out with a crew of people that GET IT.
💕 Private content for The Academy through our Substack
Curated for our folks inside The Academy: artist studies, obsessive free falls on marketing/the internet, and essays to spark inspiration, and help you make your next creative choice.
💻 Library of Online Courses
Our library of online courses on anything from pitching, artist bio writing, Substack, creative practice, sales planning for artists…and more. 6+ hours of edutainment for your art girl walks, dream sessions, and skill building.
Inside The Academy…
We’re Phoebe and Jacque! 👋 We are artists, creative directors, and edutainers. We use art making, design, play, facilitation, and storytelling to bring your big, beautiful, ideas to the world with creative confidence. Between the two of us we share backgrounds in fine art, creative business, marketing, Somatic coaching, drama therapy, performance art, movement, and more.
As two creative weirdos, we knew the status quo didn’t work for us. So we created something that did, and you can too.
MEET YOUR GUIDES
Inside The Academy, we craft the space to fall in love with your creativity, and have your creativity love you back.
We built the Academy to share everything we have learned about untangling, balancing, and weaving business practice with artistic practice. We venture on the road to artist life FOR A REASON. So, why subscribe to another version of 9-5 status quo that didn’t work in the first place? 🧐
We work to make business feel like art, because here is what we know to be true: when you invest in your own creative process, when you commit to curiosity and play, when you surround yourself with a creatively confident community – opportunity abounds!
The world can muchooo benefit from the creativity of artists. You don’t need to go fast, hard, or even DO THE MOST to have an an easeful creative career, because TBH your ART and process are the antidote to our culture of hustle, “10k months”, and the overwhelming capitalist, nightmare fuel. 😵💫
TLDR; we help artists become well resourced to do what they love, without all the internet, tech bro, bullshit that tells them to abandon themselves.
What students inside The Academy are saying…. 💌
I was looking for help, support, and what to do — in the wrong places. I was so hungry for my dreams that I chose to eat the bullshit sandwich I was being served and was told was the only thing available for lunch. Now I've walked out of the diner and stumbled upon the fucking Mercato Centrale in Florence, Italy. // Hillary O.
Going through the many stages of process and seeing what that can look like, providing a space that isn't about production but actually the exact opposite. Providing a space where I can say with confidence that I am an artist and I belong in community with other artists. // Anna
Phoebe and Jacque opened a portal into a way of creating art that makes everything feel possible, and a little bit silly, and the stakes of making good or bad art were lowered dramatically. // Kimberly
INSIDE THE ACADEMY YOU WILL:
develop an understanding of your creative process and how it informs your work
build a trusting relationship with yourself and your art so you can show up consistently to making
identify the resources, spaces, and opportunities that already exist around you, or create new ones
balance the underwhelm/overwhelm fatigue in the everyday decisions of being a creative
gain the creative business 101 skills to make money, while also making art
disrupt yourself, your habits, and your perfectionist demon by centering play, rest, and experimentation