Although creative entrepreneurs are very talented and driven, many have no idea how to turn what they love to do into a livelihood. They are chronically overworked and often abysmally underpaid. Creatives have been struggling forever to find ways to be the creator of the product as well as the independent...

This month we explore promoting you and your work through article marketing; writing your business plan for funding and managing the growth of your business; and our round table is all about ownership – of your living space AND health tips and resources for your body. Tuesdays, April 6, 13, 20,...

Please join us this month for one great workshop, two fab tele-classes for visual artists, and our round table about getting your story in the news! Saturday & Sunday, March 20 & 21 | 9:30 to 3:30 p.m. Focus Workshop Guerilla Exhibitor, Marketing Intensive. 12– week Marketing/Sales Strategy,...

February Round Table | A Conversation about funding sources for artists with: CAN Executive Director, Jessica Jarratt; RACC Grants Coordinator Tonisha Toler; Paige Coleman, Exec. Dir. Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods and info from MercyCorpsNW . EVENT DETAILS: NEW Date/Time: Sunday, February 28|...

Jennifer Mercede, one of Portland’s most prolific, and most successful, visual artists shares with WAN Members and Guests her story of becoming an artist-entrepreneur who lives the life of a self-sustaining visual artist. Set up in an interview format, WAN Founder Adrienne Fritze guides the conversation...

For the past couple of years I’ve taken mid-December to Mid-January off to recuperate from what is always a full and demanding year in the management and continued development of Working Artists. Of course, even though I am not generally available for meetings, calls, teaching or presentations...

[11/29] Visit

We’re canceling the November 22nd Round Table – it looks like it’s a bit too close to Turkey Day, so we are rescheduling with the Creative Advocacy Network’s Executive Director Jessica Jarrett for our February 28th Round Table. We intend to have a grants person from the Regional...

The Women of Working Artists Network @ Siren Nation Sun, Nov 8 | Hours: 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Location: McMenamin’s Kennedy School | 5736 N.E. 33rd Ave., Portland OR Working Artists Network is proud to be an exhibitor at our 2nd Siren Nation Festival in November. Women artists who are also members...

Gallery for Good presents All Our Children an exhibit and art sale to benefit Hands to Heart, International (HHI). EXHIBIT IS EXTENDED THROUGH JANUARY 1, 2010!! Thursday November 5, 2009 Victoria Frankland (mixed media artist, and art teacher) and Addie Kay Boswell (artist and author of the awarding...