Artist Academy

We made it to episode 101! Here are the top 7 most downloaded episodes: #24 Why You Should Never Give Up Your Copyright with Maria Brophy #61 Instagram Tips to Grow Your Art Business with Kate Tova #62 How to Beat The Algorithm #53 Social Media Strategies with Laurence White #31 How to Create and Sell Prints 101 #49 How to Set Up Residual Income Systems in Your Art Business #48 Increase Your Sales...

This is another episode of the student spotlight series where every Monday I interview my amazing Artist Academy Advanced students to get to know them better, give them direct advice on their art business, and so I can get feedback on how to be a better teacher. This week I’m interviewing Brianna Damato and we got to dive in on our combined favorite topic: TikTok! I’m always seeing Brianna pop up...

This week’s episode features UK based wildlife artist and animal rights advocate Sophie Green. I felt like I was talking to a girlfriend in this interview. Sophie just kept it real and says it like it is, but in the nicest possible way. She’s full of advice and this fun fact was a first for me… Sophie gets a lot of her commission requests from Twitter. I’ve never had an artist say that in an inter...

This is another episode of the student spotlight series where every Monday I interview my amazing Artist Academy Advanced students to get to know them better, give them direct advice on their art business, and so I can get feedback on how to be a better teacher. This week I’m interviewing two artists, Jeni Dolde and Christy Perez. Interviewing the past couple weeks has got me thinking… Some people...

This week’s episode features one of the artists who helped me get my start in the art world, Farley Lewis. Farley is a calligrapher and landscape artist based here in Missouri and we center most of our conversation around the joys of plein air competitions. He mentioned about halfway through the interview that these outdoor competitions are one of the major ways he sells his art, so I had to dive...

This is another episode of the student spotlight series where every Monday I interview my amazing Artist Academy Advanced students to get to know them better, give them direct advice on their art business, and so I can get feedback on how to be a better teacher. This week I’m interviewing Colorado based animal artist, Megan George. It was such a treat to get to start the week off with Megan’s posi...

This week’s episode features colored pencil artist and new author Sema Martin. Sema and I are a perfect subject match for this episode because we both emphasize in teaching the business side of art. We’re on the same wavelength when it comes to art education and I was so excited when she agreed to be a guest on this podcast. Sema is my ideal guest because she’s both a great example of what an arti...

This is another episode of the student spotlight series where every Monday I interview my amazing Artist Academy Advanced students to get to know them better, give them direct advice on their art business, and so I can get feedback on how to be a better teacher. This week I’m interviewing Jessa Aber as we talk about motivation and figuring out what to do next. This crazy art rollercoaster ride of...

Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, Pinterest, etc. Does your head feel like it’s about to explode just by hearing the names of all those platforms you “should” be on and might be missing out on by not putting effort into. It’s okay, I got you. This is a sneak peak into a recent training we did in the Advanced group that I wanted to share with you to hopefully motivate you to really si...

This week’s episode features Baltimore based fantasy artist and educator, Saz Ross. Saz has such an interesting back story as to why she creates the art she does and I think all of us could learn a thing or two from her on the topic of inspiration. I think we forget that the things we were interested in as a kid are often the things that can give us the best fuel for ideas as adults. Saz is a publ...

This is another episode of the student spotlight series where every Monday I interview my amazing Artist Academy Advanced students to get to know them better, give them direct advice on their art business, and so I can get feedback on how to be a better teacher. This week I’m interviewing Hibaaq Ibrahim. There’s one part of this interview that really stood out to me so I wanted to get it out there...

Hey! This is a sneak peek into a recent Instagram training we did in the Advanced group that I wanted to share with you to hopefully motivate you to really sit down and get intentional with your social media strategy. This is based on the results I got this past month by gaining over 2,000 new followers in just 30 days. I really got serious about my Instagram growth this past month and then I diss...

This week’s episode features Washington based soul painting artist Julie Kluh. I so enjoyed getting to meet Julie through this interview and it’s conversations like this that really make me so happy that I started a podcast. I love talking to artists and travelers. It’s so rare to meet someone who just gets it when it comes to wanting to live outside the box and experience the world according thei...

This is episode number 4 of the student spotlight series where every Monday I interview my amazing Artist Academy Advanced students to get to know them better, give them direct advice on their art business, and so I can get feedback on how to be a better teacher. This week I’m doing two separate student interviews, the first is Rachel Wysocki and then Hailey Mae Scott. So let’s start with Rachel w...

Today is a solo show all about how to inform and capture someone’s attention within the first 15 seconds of meeting them. We are going to go over why this subject is important and how you can create a pitch of your own! www. ArtistAcademy.co www.instagram.com/artbyandreaehrhardt

This week’s episode features Austria based fantasy artist Raffaela Cech. I am completely obsessed with Raffaela’s style of painting. She does these gaming inspired, fantasy-like scenes that are literally out of this world. She is a true example of an artist who is sticking to her niche and thriving from it. We talk about why she chose this niche and how she’s getting commissions for a subject so s...

This is episode number 3 of the student spotlight series where every Monday I interview one of my amazing Artist Academy Advanced students to get to know them better, give them direct advice on their art business, and so I can get feedback on how to be a better teacher. This week I’m interviewing Austin Fabinski. Austin is a former elementary art teacher turned full time artist still in the very b...

This week’s episode is a little different in that we flipped the mic with Pratiksha interviewing me for a change. If you remember Pratiksha from a couple episodes ago where I interviewed her about her art business and at the end of it she said “Hey! Why don’t I interview you for a change?” So that’s what we did. In this episode I talk a bit about the business I started before becoming an artist an...

This week’s episode features sculptor, potter, and painter William Jeffrey Jones. I could listen to William talk about his stories as a sculptor all day. Did you know that he used to sculpt the figurines of famous people like Shaq, Magic Johnson, Buffy the vampire slayer, the list goes on When you purchase these figurines at any Walmart, if you look on the very bottom of the box you’ll see William...

This is episode number 2 of the student spotlight series where every Monday I interview one of my amazing Artist Academy Advanced students to get to know them better, give them direct advice on their art business, and so I can get feedback on how to be a better teacher. This week I’m interviewing Keila Small. She has been a member for almost a year now and has made so many improvements in her art...

This week’s episode is a recording from a live in our Artist Academy Advanced group all about the legal side of the art business. Contracts, LLC’s, copyrights,.. all the fun things that attorney Corey Kilburn joins us to every so nicely explain. He explains the rights we have as artists with putting our artwork online, what a good contract should include, and ultimately how we can legally protect...

This week’s episode features Brooklyn based muralist and sculptor Jenna Morello. I just got off this interview with her and I just want to warn you that there is a little bit of language in this episode, nothing too crazy, but if you have kids around then maybe just stick to headphones. Language aside, Jenna is so cool. I felt myself becoming my own version of a Brooklyn badass the longer we spoke...

We are starting a student spotlight series where every Monday I interview a couple of my amazing Artist Academy Advanced students to get to know them better, give them direct advice on their art business, and so I can get feedback on how to be a better teacher. Life is all about communication! This week I invited Jodi to go live with me and it was so cool getting to know her because she’s done so...

This week’s episode features groovy California based surf artist Drew Brophy. Drew is kind of a celebrity in my mind right along with his wife, Maria Brophy. If you don’t know the Brophys then I highly encourage every single artist to click the link in the notes and buy Maria’s book: Art Money Success. It’s seriously a game changer and the reason why I know so much about them and their art career....

This week’s episode features Austin, Texas, based artist Pratiksha of PMuirArt. Pratiksha has had an interesting segway into the art world because her previous job required her to sell, sell, sell to the point of actually getting used to hearing the word “no.” And that’s what sales is, right? Giving your pitch to whoever might need your product, or in our case our art product, and letting them dec...