Offering free and paid programming and services to make art accessible to people of all economic means.

Offering opportunities to showcase people in our community through interviews and artist residencies.

Celebrating and sharing diverse opportunities for different groups of people, including but not limited to: women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and disabled communities.

Creating play opportunities in our spaces.

Making art for the pure joy of play.

Making art to make a statement or support a cause you care about.

Creating content for artists seeking strategies and skills to realize this desire.

Highlighting artists in our community and elsewhere who are examples of both, so we have ideas of what our personal artist practice can look like.

How do I/can I help support different people in getting results from my free and paid content?

Seeking and developing strategies of differentiation to build into our community.

This currently includes: Weekly Check-Ins (video calls), Email Reminders and Video content that includes transcripts and audio clips for Self-Taught to Self-Confident. Both live and asynchronous learning opportunities are available.

We celebrate different skill levels as well as different media.

There is no one path to building skill or developing artist voice. We encourage each artist to find the path that aligns with their goals, heart, and spirit. 

We embrace artists of all abilities with goals from being a hobby-ist to seeking gallery representation. We all have something to learn from one another.

Copyright and cultural appropriation 

Copying of any kind is only permitted when it’s in the study and research of an artist’s work. (In this scenario, I actively encourage it as a form of study). It is important to credit the original artist.

If an artist is found to be selling or promoting work as their original art that is not their copyright or not from their culture they will be removed from the community spaces we have (even if they have paid for a program).

Offering feedback only when someone asks for it. 

Being clear about your own boundaries when asking for feedback. 

Artist Strong includes feedback workshops in paid programs to help establish these boundaries, and will work to develop a workshop on feedback for free communities.

Don’t assume. 

Ask clarifying questions when needed.

Ask yourself: is my comment in service of this person’s art?

Practice active listening. 

Do not listen to only bolster your argument in a discussion. 

Instead, listen and ask more questions to better understand the other perspective.

Respecting when someone shares the pronouns they use and then using them in reference to that person.

You can share your pronoun by starting any comment or post in our community spaces with:

(she/her/hers)

(they/them)

(he/him/his)

 for example.

Unsure? Use they/them.

Posting self-promotional content ONLY in the designated places unless otherwise approved by Carrie to make room for meaningful dialogue within our community spaces.

This also means no FB Lives in any of our FB spaces without Carrie’s express permission.

Promo means a link to your blog, website, linking to your social media pages, or promoting an event or sale.

DM’ing members and soliciting for business is not okay, unless they specifically ask you to.

No posting affiliate, competition, any kind of voting, or charity links without Carrie’s written permission.

Notifying Carrie (Carrie@ArtistStrong.com) if someone is inappropriate or harmful to others.

Remember: your intent can be different than your impact, which can be harmful.

Note: You don’t have to say anything in confrontation – notify me – it’s my job to protect our space.