Empower your artists to be entrepreneurs

M-AAA provides career and professional development programs to connect, support, and empower artists and your creative community. We provide the curriculum, facilitators, and tools—your organization provides the space and support.

• Strengthen your local art communities: Bring professional development and artist-led peer networks to your local musicians, painters, poets, filmmakers—to local artists of any discipline.
• Artists teach artists: All workshops are led by trained artist facilitators, people who have built careers in the arts and have faced similar challenges. 
• Collaborate with an experienced partner: We provide everything you need, from field-tested, research-based, artist-centric curriculum to expert artist facilitators, marketing toolkits, and data reports.
• Support economic and creative growth: Help your local artists gain the entrepreneurial skills and resource networks they need to build sustainable careers and enrich the cultural fabric of your community.

Over 2,500 artists across dozens of communities have benefited from Artist INC programs, with more communities joining every year.

Host Artist INC in your community

Bring an Artist INC program to your community in 2025. Applications for new partner communities are now open. Complete the form below for more information and pricing. 

Program breakdown & outcomes for your community

Artist INC Express (Virtual or In-Person)

• Outcome for Your Community: In a three-day, nine-hour workshop, equip local artists with essential skills and peer connections, helping them grow professionally and contribute to your region’s creative economy
• What M-AAA Provides: Curriculum, trained artist facilitators, online registration, and marketing toolkit
• What You Provide: Your community’s artists, minimal administrative and marketing support, venue for in-person sessions

Artist INC Live (In-Person)

• Outcome for Your Community: Bring a comprehensive 8-week, 24-hour professional development program to your local artists, creating lasting impact through skills training and peer networks
• What M-AAA Provides: Online application, panel and selection administration, curriculum, trained artist facilitators, workshop supplies, marketing toolkit, and data reports
• What You Provide: Your community’s artists, marketing support, venue, administrative support, onsite support, snacks

Catalyze (In-Person)

• Outcome for Your Community: Support your artists with $10,000 grants, mentorship, and high-level professional development in a year-long intensive program, creating a long-lasting impact on both individual artists and the larger creative economy
• What M-AAA Provides: Curriculum, trained artist facilitators, $10,000 practice-based  grants, peer mentorship, and one-to-one career coaching, marketing toolkit, annual alumni gathering, and longitudinal data reports
• What You Provide: Your community’s artists, marketing support, optional venue support for program launch retreat, a year-long intensive program