Creative Career Resources

This page is a collection of just a few of the many state, regional, and national resources available for artists of any discipline, and at any stage of your career. This page will be periodically updated and expanded.

For more information, contact Program Director Martha Piscuskas: vog.eniam@saksucsip.ahtram

Explore Resources

•  Career Basics for Artists
•  Professional Development Programs
•  Networks and Visibility
•  Resource Lists

 Career Basics for Artists

Assets for Artists

By artists, for artists: Free online and in-person group skill-building workshops for artists looking to obtain tools for navigating the challenges of our economic system. Available free to Maine artists through a contract with Maine Arts Commission.

Visit Assets for Artists workshops

Artists Thrive

A set of free planning tools for the creative sector, including individual artists, organizations, groups, and collectives, that can guide us towards a fulfilling individual career and a thriving arts sector.

Visit Artists Thrive

Springboard for the Arts

Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists is a comprehensive workbook designed by artists for artists to develop your creative business. Free to download.

Download Work of Art

 Professional Development Programs for Artists

Fractured Atlas

Catalyzing creatives with tools you can use such as fiscal sponsorship, fundraising platform, educational resource, and advice from a staff of experienced artists and creatives.

Visit Fractured Atlas

MITx Artist Entrepreneurship Training

Welcome to a singular online class experience where artists will seamlessly learn the skills of entrepreneurship through storytelling, lectures from experts, and real-world exercises to create financially sustainable and impactful careers based on an artist's creative expression and practice.

Visit MITx Artist Entrepreneurship Training

Artists U

An incubator for changing the working conditions of artists. Everything they do is artist-run and open-source.

Visit Artists U

 Networks and Visibility

CreativeGround Directory

The region's artists, creatives, culture bearers, arts and culture organizations, and creative businesses create and maintain their own profiles here.

Visit CreativeGround

 Resource Lists

National Resource Hub

Making it easier for artists and the creative sector to find and access evergreen professional development content to help them thrive.

Visit the National Resource Hub

Fractured Atlas Artist Opportunity Database

Artist grants, funders, awards, fellowships, open calls, and residencies from across the world, at your fingertips.

Visit the Artist Opportunity Database