If you are an artist seeking to develop your unique style and want to share it with the world I don’t need to tell you how an artist community creates a fast-lane to artistic growth and success.

You know how a sense of belonging and standing shoulder-to-shoulder with other artists doing the work helps you stay accountable for your art.

You understand the value of feedback from peers and mentors, which is a necessary ingredient to build your skill and develop your unique voice.

You’ve also heard that quote by Jim Rohn where he says, “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” You know to improve your art game, you need a community to level up.

What you might NOT know is there is a secret about following through on your art goals (hint: it has nothing to do with finding more time).

Community is a key ingredient to following through on your art goals and can help you:

Proudly Call Yourself ARTIST

There is a reason so many still call themselves beginners or worry about being self-taught when they use the word artist. What if you could stop worrying about labels and focus more on making your art?

Use A Proven Formula to Find Your Voice

There is a formula experts use to build their expertise, and you can apply this formula to create the art life you’ve always wanted. Community is absolutely integral to your success.

Define Success

You deserve to meet your own artistic goals and dreams, not the Instagram curated version of your peers. Community forces you to articulate those goals and dreams and really ask yourself: is this what I want for my art?

While all of this may feel obvious, the question becomes where can you find the RIGHT kind of community? That’s tough.

Maybe you feel like a beginner, and calling yourself an artist is relatively new. You still aren’t sure about your style or creative voice. You want some guidance, encouragement, and opportunity for reflection all from someone who has been there before you. And you know a creative community will help you get there.

Here is why so many artists abandon their somewhat secret hope to be more skillful and have a distinct style:

They don’t have a step-by-step formula guiding them through the creative process.

They have no idea how to find their voice or if they will ever realize their goal. They begin to wonder if it’s only “God-given” and that their effort is in vain.

Why does this stop artists from even starting their art?

When you believe in the myth of talent, and that it is something you are born with, or without, it doesn’t leave much room for you to grow.

It also makes sharing your art with peers a competition: who has more talent than me? It becomes a game of comparison of artists with style, and artists without. And that is a scary place from which to start sharing your art.

Luckily, there is a formula to build your skill and find your unique voice. And you can find the right kind of peers, a safe space to be vulnerable and share all the wins and losses around your art.

You can also ask REAL questions and get honest answers.

Artists, of all mediums, have been using a similar formula to find their unique voice for ages.

As much as we like to claim to be free-spirited and guided by intuition, it’s a system that can guide you to your voice and let you confidently call yourself artist.

(Of course, this system has room to bend and break some rules. We ARE artists after all 😉 )

Absolutely key to this formula is your community, a sisterhood or family of artists who learn together.

It provides a critique setting that offers meaningful feedback and support.

You’ve realized you want to be in an environment with other artists who don’t see one another as competition, but as friends and peers who raise each other up.

What They Say…

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I’ve taken my 13 years of experience teaching in and outside of classrooms and being an art examiner for a prestigious program called the I.B.,

getting my work exhibited in galleries and museums including The Smithsonian and The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts,

my extensive personal research into creative process and the science of expertise,

and channeled it into a 6 month program that offers community support, workshops and feedback to help you meet your own artistic goals and dreams.

I outline the research into personality, accountability, and expertise to help you develop a system tailored to YOU and your art to go for your goals and ACT on them.

After these 6 months, you will:

• blossom into an artist who fully understands her unique creative process
• have clear structures in place that keep you organized and in your art studio on a regular basis
• be working towards a series of artwork that speaks straight from your heart.

The Circle is unique in that it:

Focuses on Feedback:

in The Circle we focus on giving and receiving quality feedback to guide your creative process. I walk you through how to give and receive feedback to create the best art you can create.

Doesn’t teach you how to make art:

while the program shares formulas and systems to help you create, I don’t tell you what or how to create. I want you to make the art you feel called to create. (Don’t worry, if you aren’t sure what that looks like for you, I help you figure it out!)

Workshop content is varied:

recorded workshops include interviews with experts, activities from other artists and how-to videos all aimed to help you reach your unique artist goals.

Here’s what it all looks like:

Course Map for The Circle:

To ensure your mastermind experience is comprehensive and thorough you’ll get access to:

Recorded workshops:

• Watch anytime, anywhere and at your own pace on a private membership website.
• Content is designed to complement your time in the studio and is released over the course of 6 months to keep you focused on creating and avoid content overwhelm.
• Workshops are short and digestible with clear action steps and demonstrations.
• Many are accompanied with worksheets to help you take immediate action on and for your art.

Community:

• Get to know and connect with fellow artists in a private Facebook Group and in the private website community. Post your art to the group or website and ONLY artists in the group will see it.
• Get feedback on your works in progress from Carrie (that’s me) and your peers.
• Ask questions about and share takeaways from the workshops.
• And most importantly: enjoy a space where people hear you and keep you accountable to your goals. It’s safe to be vulnerable and share the real wins and losses that come from making art.

Individualized Feedback:

• Not only is there a community space where you can ask for help, I offer a monthly 1 hour question and answer session each month (two for GOLD level) via a webinar.
• I can share and draw on digital images of your artwork to offer feedback, brainstorm additional ideas for new art or even review your website or social media postings.
• Feedback is absolutely integral to success as a creative and you need it to happen with someone who has been there before you AND can offer support with a compassionate and understanding voice.
• (Here’s a link to feedback videos that are similar to what you can get inside The Circle).

Course Map for The Circle GOLD:

→ start making art with your unique artist voice

→ create a series of unique artworks to exhibit or sell

→ meet and work alongside other makers striving towards similar goals

→ create a regular habit of making art that would help you have a happier, healthier life

→ feel confident and proud to call yourself artist in front of friends, family and strangers

→ begin to think about your art in new ways: develop strategies to sell art or fund more art making, raise money for charity or begin to build an income

That’s what I’m offering you today.

Join The Circle today and get access to: private membership site full of recorded workshops, worksheets, interviews, a private Facebook group, live Q&A calls, weekly emails to guide your journey, mentorship and peer community.

• Discover your unique artist voice and your own definition of artistic success and start taking action on it.
• Uncover tools to help you not only set the right goals for yourself, but how to stay organized and actually follow through on them.
• Create and use your habit of regular making to work towards a series or portfolio of art.
• Become part of the most caring and supportive group of artists I know.

The Circle GOLD

$68 USD

Monthly for 6 months

OR Pay Upfront

$336 USD

for best savings

Questions? I’ve got answers. Email: Carrie@ArtistStrong.com

You’ve been trying to do it all on your own. Maybe you’ve taken some other courses that teach you how to make art like other artists. But now you are ready to:

1. Investigate and discover YOUR unique voice. You feel called to do more. Something bigger is on the horizon for your art and you are ready to listen to that inner voice asking to be heard.
2. Uncover a system that helps you make your best art, on your own terms. You are tired of looking at how other artists are growing and discovering and succeeding and you want to find your own way.

The Circle opens once a year for registration. Yes, you could always wait one more year, but if you keep waiting for the “right” time: when will you ever prioritize your art?

You can start to find your voice and how you wish to share your art with the world if you join The Circle today.

The Circle GOLD

$68 USD

Monthly for 6 months

OR Pay Upfront

$336 USD

for best savings

Questions? I’ve got answers. Email: Carrie@ArtistStrong.com

45 Day Money Back Guarantee

If after 45 days you’ve given The Circle your all and aren’t satisfied you can receive a full refund. Once you demonstrate evidence of your labor of all content discussed and covered up to that date (Mar 5, 2018) I am happy to return your investment. I want you to grow and learn and discover. If you don’t feel The Circle is right for you let us part ways with peace and respect. You can see the full refund policy here.

Can I pay in installments?

Yes, you can pay for your 6 month mastermind monthly. When you sign up, you do commit to payment for the entire 6 month program. If you miss a monthly payment, you can lose access to the content offered in the program until you make your next payment.

What if I change my mind?

If after 45 days you’ve given The Circle your all and aren’t satisfied you can receive a full refund. Once you demonstrate evidence of your labor of all content discussed and covered up to that date (Mar 5, 2018) I am happy to return your investment. I want you to grow and learn and discover. If you don’t feel The Circle is right for you let us part ways with peace and respect.

How do I know The Circle is for me?

If you are committed to upleveling your art, you will commit time and effort to your art and your goals. You have 6 months of guided support to get you there. But in the end, The Circle will only be as good as the effort you put into it. Be ready to focus on making art, talking about art and sharing art. If you are struggling financially and it is difficult to pay your bills I recommend you wait to invest in this program.

Do I need to use the FB Group?

You are under no obligation to participate in the FB Group, but it does act as a classroom where you can develop relationships with other artists and get feedback on your art.

Where do I find all of the lessons?

All workshop content is included in a membership site. You will receive a link to the site with a unique username and password to watch your tutorials.

I’m not entirely confident of calling myself an artist yet, is The Circle still good for me?

Yes! My experience in teaching was working specifically with many students who had little art experience but by the end of their time with me began to see and develop a unique artist style. If you want to develop your art and be able to discover your style to build a portfolio, The Circle is a great place to begin.

Elizabeth Gilbert in her book Big Magic talks about all of the artists she has met looking for permission to begin finding their voice and making the art their heart calls them to make.

You don’t have to be more skillful.

You don’t have to have better art materials.

And you certainly don’t need an art degree to make good art.

It’s time to make yourself that permission slip Gilbert tells us to make. And find a system that will help you aim for and reach the goals you have for your art.

The Circle GOLD

$68 USD

Monthly for 6 months

OR Pay Upfront

$336 USD

for best savings

AND a 45 Day Money Back Guarantee

Questions? I’ve got answers. Email: Carrie@ArtistStrong.com

If you catch yourself thinking ‘that’s me!’ to any of these scenarios, it’s time to commit to your art and register for The Circle:

– You’ve taken art classes that show you how to create in the style of other artists, and are beginning to feel like you need a new challenge.

– You have a hard time finishing the other online classes you’ve signed up for and want a space to keep you accountable to the goals you set for yourself.

– You feel nervous describing yourself as an artist to friends, family or strangers. You aren’t sure what they will ask you about your art and so you avoid talking about it.

– You have no idea how to take quality photographs of your art, nor how to set up things like a Redbubble account nor a Patreon account as a means to start selling or promoting your art.

– You feel stuck for ideas when it comes to sharing and talking about your art: you want to share better stories that get people asking questions about and sharing your art.

– You want to apply to show your art in exhibitions, but you don’t even know where to start looking.

– You’ve sold a few artworks here and there, but have no idea how to go about building consistent income from your work.

If any of these sound like you, I really look forward to getting to know you and your art.

True community isn’t just a group of people with a common cause, it’s a sisterhood that lifts you up.

Enroll in The Circle today

The Circle GOLD

$68 USD

Monthly for 6 months

OR Pay Upfront

$336 USD

for best savings

Questions? I’ve got answers. Email: Carrie@ArtistStrong.com