The ArtSpark Business Canvas proved to be a powerful tool to get me thinking in all kinds of new ways. It has served as a working map to guide me in these early stages of my new venture, and I continue to use it on a regular basis. And I plan to continue using it as my business evolves and grows.

The [ArtSpark Business Canvas] workshop gave me a language with which to organize my hitherto jumbled ideas about my future as an artist. ...I've been able to develop some habits around publication, marketing and sales of my work that were almost too confusing to approach in years past. That is a huge gift, and one I'll always be grateful for.

I found the [ArtSpark Business] canvas and the workshop very helpful and developing a strategic plan for the future. I used the canvas with my staff in order to get their perspectives on the program and added them to my own to build a more complete picture. We are changing the way that we fund what we are doing and I wanted to get stakeholder input

I did the ArtSpark Business Canvas at a very early stage in my artistic development -- at a point when I believed that making art meant that I would never have any money. This is a dragon belief that I continue to work on slaying as it's so deeply embedded. That said, the ArtSpark Business Canvas was helpful in opening dialogue around these beliefs and breaking down barriers between art and money I had taken as a given. It also got me thinking about time, how I value my time, and how I account for the 'business' of what I do in what I might charge.

The greatest resource we have is artists themselves and our greatest need is finding good content to share with our members worldwide. That's why the ArtSpark Business Canvas is so exciting to us! We know that artists benefit when they share knowledge and resources that increase their self-sufficiency. ArtSpark has created a resource through the ABCanvas that fits our mission and our members' needs so perfectly!