These sessions are open to all Connecticut artists!

NOVEMBER 10TH
Self-Care Practice for Artists is a workshop designed to offer a safe space and supportive environment for artists to come together and consult with a panel of coaches and healers who specialize in healing efforts for creative individuals. The workshop will address how to clear blocks, work through resistance, manage anxiety, and develop recovery routines so you can continue to create, even during challenging times.


Register for the November 10 session HERE.
 
NOVEMBER 17TH
Connecting your Artistic Practice with the Business Sector will focus on personal development practices for artists that explores successful business strategies from other sectors, inspires cross-sector partnerships, and deepens professional outreach and audience growth opportunities. This workshop welcomes artists and creative business professionals from all sectors and artistic disciplines.


Register for the November 17 session HERE.

Learn more about the Cultural Alliance of Western Connecticut by visiting www.cawct.org. The Cultural Alliance of Western Connecticut is one of nine Regional Service Organizations that serve as local field offices to constituents and citizens. This statewide network of designated service agencies plays a key role that is mutually beneficial to the state’s citizens and creative economy, the regional arts and cultural infrastructure, and the goals, programs and services of the Connecticut Office of the Arts.
Sunday, November 29, 2020

Let's Help Individual Artists Thrive!
Participate as an Artist, Partner, or a Patron!

Artists Sunday is an arts-focused shopping day the first Sunday after Thanksgiving, the largest shopping weekend of the year! The goal is simple: to help artists sell more of their work during the fall holiday season and to help shoppers find unique, personal and hand-made gifts for their loved ones!

Planted squarely in the midst of the largest holiday shopping weekend of the year, Artists Sunday aims to make the Sunday after Thanksgiving the arts’ most profitable day annually, boosting sales for creators of art, crafts and handmade items while encouraging consumers to purchase art as holiday gifts.
  
Artists Sunday encompasses a full spectrum of the arts from painting, sculpture, and photography to clothing, jewelry, pottery, and a range of handcrafted items that can be both practical and beautiful. Artists Sunday is also free for artists creating experiential works of art (think dance, music and theater) Types of Artists? View a non-exhaustive list.

Artists Sign-up

You must be an original artist or craftsmen to participate as an artist. Participation is free. If you are not the artist (such as stores or galleries), then you do not qualify as an Artists Sunday Artist.

Artists who join receive:
  • A listing on the Artists Sunday Artists Directory
  • The Artists Sunday Toolkit – The marketing toolkit, available in early October, provides digital materials to generate buzz and awareness to promote to consumers and the media during the fall holiday season.
  • Benefit from the Artists Sunday nationwide public relations campaign during the fall.
  • Benefit from outreach of Artists Sunday Partners’ promoting Artists Sunday across the country.
  • Use of the Artists Sunday logo, name and marketing materials.

Please view the Artists FAQ for all the details.
Any questions? Contact Artists Sunday here.

Artists Sunday™ Partners

Become a partner today! The Partners program is free for art organizations and economic development agencies, including local arts districts, state agencies, counties, chambers of commerce, national organizations, associations, municipalities, and non-profit community groups across the country.
 
As an Artists Sunday Partner, your organization will receive:
  • The Artists Sunday Toolkit – The comprehensive marketing toolkit, available in October, provides digital materials to generate buzz and awareness to promote to artists, consumers and the media during the fall holiday season.
  • A listing on the Artists Sunday web site.
  • Use of the Artists Sunday logo, name and marketing materials.
  • Benefit from the Artists Sunday nationwide public relations campaign during the fall holiday season.
 
Commercial companies selling art should apply to the Patron Program.

Please review the Partners FAQ for details.
Any questions? Contact Artists Sunday here.

Patrons Program

The Patron program is free for commercial companies that sell someone else’s art, such as galleries, merchants, ecommerce sites, vendors, shippers, and others that support artists and the arts and crafts ecosystem.
 
Subject to approval, as an Artists Sunday Patron, your organization will receive:
  • The Artists Sunday Toolkit – The comprehensive marketing toolkit, available in October, provides digital materials to generate buzz and awareness to promote to artists, consumers and the media during the fall holiday season.
  • A listing on the Artists Sunday web site.
  • Use of the Artists Sunday logo, name and marketing materials.
  • Benefit from the Artists Sunday nationwide public relations campaign during the fall holiday season.