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. 9 days, 9 emails, 9 creative prompts, 9 opportunities to show up for your craft.
💬 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. Learn in community with other artists! Take a peek at the Calendar Here.
✂️ Office Hours + Feedback Portal
Opportunities each month to ask Phoebe and Jacque 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 that gets it, and get feedback from Phoebe + Jacque on all you make.
💕 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
WHAT WE TEACH
immersive marketing / world-building / storytelling / performance for business / human-centered business + art practices / values based marketing / creative literacy + skill building / systems + offer design
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
JOIN US INSIDE THE ACADEMY
You have access to financial security, own property, or have personal savings. You are able to pay for "wants" and spend little time worrying about securing necessities in your life. If you have economic privilege and power in our community, this price is for you.
You are unemployed or underemployed. You have access to basic needs such as food, housing, and childcare, though sometimes it may feel difficult. You are able to put some money away each month to pay for the program but it would take longer than 12 months to save for the middle tier.
You do NOT spend most of your time thinking about meeting basic needs such as food, shelter, medical care, child care, etc. Making this investment might mean you might have to cut back on some discretionary spending in your life (eating out, getting nails done, annual vacation), but the sacrifice is short-term, and will not jeopordize your safety in the long term.
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Here is the thing. We fundamentally believe we are all artists. Like, if you work at a big glossy building in a grey suit, you are an artist. If that is a title you don’t wanna claim yet, that’s not our business.
BUT if you’re actually saying:
“I have an office job that isn’t creative!”
“I don’t make money selling my art.”
“I never wanna sell my art!”
“I am not a conventional “creative” person.”
Ultimately, we work with PEOPLE THAT HAVE IDEAS so if that means you’d like to paint 5,000 paintings and stack them on top of each other, you’re in the right place.
If you consider yourself an artist, or if you don’t, or if you want to, but it’s hard, welcome!
Artists, creatives, business owners, artpreneurs, art and cultural workers – anyone who makes anything for anyone. This space is open to multi-disciplinary folks, and artists that work within one discipline. The magic of this space is that we can learn A LOT from different paths, and ways of being and creating.
We are so excited and ready to work with you! If you have a little spark inside you to create something and usher it into this world, you my friend, are an artist, and you BELONG here! ✨
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We use your creative and artistic skills to establish a trusting and resilient relationship to your creativity, and in turn…your art. Inside the Academy, we use the artistic skills YOU ARE ALREADY HAVE to help support the parts of your business/production/marketing that may not thrill you. It is about using your art to come to the answers you seek, and trusting that creativity will show you the way.
Your creativity is actually the thing that will help you show up.
We are two very critical people of the coaching industry. AND we believe in the magic coaching has brought to our lives as well. We believe finding the right coach for your is important. We are two trauma informed, somatic focused (i.e. how the fuck your body feels) beings, and are way more interested in what you WANT to do rather then what you think you should do.(Take a peak at our bios for a list of education and coaching certificates we hold).
Disclaimer: We are professional artists, creative directors, facilitators, and coaches. We are not trained or licensed therapists, counselors, or mental health professionals and this program should not be used for such learning or healing.
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The Academy is about stepping “outside” the norm, and having the art school journey you always wanted. It is about finding and understanding HOW you work as an artist or creative.
We will unlock your unique relationship and process to creativity, so you can keep showing up no matter what it is you’re making or trying to accomplish.
We know you can do what you want, how you want, and build the creative life you want, using the gifts of art making you already have, while prioritizing rest and play.
We do not believe in one size fits all. We will help you navigate your next best move, together. 🌱
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The Academy runs throughout the year, with seasonal breaks, and different semester themes. Our office hours begin monthly in the Fall 2025, and our community hours (In Process) are bi-weekly.
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Whenever your please! Once you add to cart, you will be sent a welcome email with log in instructions, access to the Slack, and your Academy portal! 💃 Your one time payment gives you lifetime access to The Academy. This is not a weird scammy membership model where one future lovely day from now you’re hit with a secret “time to renew!” email. Gross.
I got some Q’s!
Everything is an experiment.
If you are feeling called to be a part of this, but are thinking, “This would be so great, but…”, we encourage you to inquire.
We believe in you and your art. The world needs to see and hear you. Everything is figure-out-able.