Building Better Businesses

A free training programme specially designed for the visual arts to build better businesses

In 2011 the Turning Point Network and Arts Council England published ‘Business Models in the Visual Arts’. The report found business models within the sector ‘relatively weak and particularly vulnerable’ and made a number of urgent recommendations to improve business skills.

Following the report, Audiences UK and the Arts Marketing Association led a training needs analysis of over fifty visual arts professionals involved in Turning Point regional networksfocusing on the use of data to inform business decisions. After detailed analysis of the findings, we have designed a national programme of workshops that cover all the areas that you have said are most important and where you need to know more to build better businesses.

We have assembled some of the finest and most experienced workshop leaders in the country to develop bespoke sessions just for visual arts participants. All of the workshops will be fascinating, engaging, packed with insight and specifically relevant to you and your needs.

Thanks to the hospitality of some of the nation’s leading galleries, workshops will take place in visual arts venues and you will have a chance to enjoy an exhibition as well the training.

This a national programme with all workshops open to visual arts professionals from throughout England and Wales, no matter where you live.

Thanks to funding from Arts Council England, all workshops are absolutely free to attend.Book early and build a better business.