Taxes and Art - A Financial Primer

Taxes and Financial Planning for Artists

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Taxes and Financial Planning for Artists

Managing your money may not seem like the most glamorous occupation, but it is one of the most important things you can do to ensure stability in your life. As someone in the arts, and especially if you are a freelancer, you are in an unusual position when it comes to financial management. Throughout this course, you will be walked through the basics of the major components of financial responsibility, from filing taxes to investing, estate planning and the importance of good credit. Your work is important to you, and your finances should be too. Without a healthy financial picture, the rest would not be possible.

Module One - Filing Taxes Yourself vs. Hiring an Accountant

Module Two – Choosing an Accountant

Module Three – Financial Planning

Module Four – Estate Planning

Module Five – Creating a Will

Module Six – Importance of Good Credit

Module Seven – Life Insurance

Module Eight – Investing

Your Instructor


Brainard Carey
Brainard Carey

Brainard Carey has written three books for artists; The 2022 edition of Making it in the Art World (211 pages), as well as The Art World Demystified (310 pages) New Markets for Artists (265 pages) and three smaller books Sell Online (82 pages), Succeed with Social Media (77 pages), Fund Your Dreams (162 pages) and How I got into the Whitney Biennial (29 pages).

Carey interviews curators, writers and artists from all over the art world for Yale University radio. He also has a resource page for grants that is always updated. He is an educator and also an artist that has had major shows like The Whitney Museum Biennial.


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