The Art Coaching Club Podcast

In this episode, we dive deep into how artists can successfully sell their work on Pinterest. Pinterest is not just a platform for inspiration; it’s a powerful sales tool that can help artists reach a wider audience and convert browsers into buyers. We’ll walk through six actionable steps—from optimizing your profile to creating strategic pins—that will help you grow your presence and sell more art on Pinterest. Tune in to learn the ins and outs of Pinterest SEO, how to engage your audience, and tips for analyzing your progress!

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Enjoy today's episode with Paige Lindsey. Paige is an Artist (floral watercolor and acrylic painter), ARTrepreneur, Watercolor Painting Educator, Live Event Painter, Community Builder and Podcaster. In March of 2020, Paige was laid of from her job due to COVID-19. She saw this job loss as a sign from the universe telling her to finally take her part-time passion project, Paige Lindsey Design and turn it into the creative career of her dreams. Paige wanted to do more than sell her art, she wanted to bring people together, build long lasting relationships and create a community that would support one another and feel less alone with their creative pursuits.

Since March 2020, Paige has built a thriving community (online and in person) all over the United States and the globe. She has taught countless individuals and corporate companies how to paint with watercolor and feel confident in exploring something new and outside of their comfort zone. Paige's purpose in life is to help individuals build creative confidence, community, believe in their creative superpowers and live a life they deserve to live. When Paige isn't painting or working on expanding her art business, you can find her blabbing on her podcast (Paige's Pod), teaching hot barre classes, exploring thrift stores and drinking too many oat milk lattes. Paige currently lives in Exeter, NH with her husband Sam.

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Enjoy today's conversation with Shelli Beermann. Shelli Beermann has held various roles in the art business world, including artist manager, gallery manager, fine art appraiser, and fine art insurance broker. She is an Accredited Member of The American Society of Appraisers and her reports are compliant in the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practices (USPAP) set forth by the Appraisal Foundation. She serves as the Vice President of the Appraisers Association of Georgia and a member of Georgia Committee for the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

Shelli graduated Cum Laude from the University of Miami with a double major in Finance and Marketing and a minor in Art History. She then moved to New York City to pursue her Master’s of Art degree in art business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art. She graduated With Distinction for her thesis titled Borrowing Against Brushstrokes: Art as an Asset Class and Its Evolution into Art-Backed Lending which explored the use of art as loan collateral.

While completing her degree at Sotheby’s Institute, Shelli worked as an intern in the Global Fine Art Practice at Aon Private Risk Management in New York City. After graduation, she accepted a full time position at Aon as Account Executive where she specialized in insurance coverage and risk management for high net worth individuals and their private collections.

After relocating to Atlanta, Georgia in 2014, Shelli worked as a gallery manager and appraiser at Spalding Nix Fine Art. She then accepted a position as the business manager for Atlanta-based artist, Sally King Benedict, where she handled day-to-day business operations, marketing, and sales.

Shelli has combined her 15 years art industry experience to start Beermann Art Advisory.

Originally from Naples, Florida, Shelli resides in Atlanta with her husband and two daughters. When not absorbing all things art, she is cheering on her beloved Miami Hurricanes or planning a beach vacation.

You can learn more about Shelli on her website and Instagram.

Enjoy today's episode with my new friend, Lindsey McCord, better known as Lindsey Crafter.

Lindsey McCord is a life-long crafter and artist from rural Georgia. After a childhood on the farm she moved to New York in 2010 to study fashion design. While completing her degree she taught sewing, fashion design, and jewelry design to young style enthusiasts around Manhattan and New Jersey. After getting her AAS in Fashion Design from FIT she continued to work in New York for a SUPER stylish event company [Shirley Girl]  where she gained the moniker "Lindsey Crafter". She took up the mantle as the resident "crafty" engineer, handling creative installs and styling for companies like Target, Garnier, Loreal and more. While she returned to Atlanta in 2016, she continues to freelance for the company in NY, Miami, LA and beyond. 

Lindsey Crafter is a style-centric craft enthusiast with a penchant for thrifting, impromptu animal rescue missions, and working with small businesses to realize their potential. After years of content creation, branding and DIY action she picked up her paintbrush and revisited her roots in fashion illustration. Now you can find her with baby Lulu in tow, painting in her home studio in Atlanta!​

You can find her past projects featured on high -traffic websites and accounts like House Beautiful, Teen Vogue, Good Housekeeping and Apartment Therapy!

I️ hope you enjoy today's episode with Kelsey Howard. Learn more about Kelsey in her own words below.

I was born and raised in Wilmington, NC. After graduating from Elon University in 2014 with an art major and biology minor, I attended UNC- Greensboro and became a registered nurse. While I had made art for many years, I became much more invested in painting as I grew in my first year as a nurse.  Sitting in front of an easel after a day of work brought me a lot of joy and relaxation.

The first subject I truly loved to paint was the human face. My initial interest started when I was probably 11 or 12 years old and began as an interest in anatomy. My style eventually developed into a love of using bright colors while working in more subtle colors, textures, and details. After a few years working as a registered nurse, I left to pursue painting full time and currently work out of an at home studio. When I’m not painting, you’ll usually find me walking at the beach or a local park near our neighborhood. I love to gather artistic inspiration from traveling and nature. My husband and I currently live in Wilmington, NC with our two dogs, a cat, and a lot of plants.

Instagram: @kelseyhowardart

Website: www.kelseyhowardart.com

Enjoy today's conversation with Christy King.

Christy is a representational artist working in both oil paint and mixed media collage. She studied art and education at UNC Chapel Hill, and also earned a master of education at Vanderbilt University. She has ten years of experience teaching art to children in Montessori schools and art museums, including the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and the Frist Art Museum. Christy lives in Chapel Hill where she teaches painting to adults and creates art in her home studio.  Her work is currently represented by Well+Wonder Artist Collective and Artfully Walls.

https://www.instagram.com/christymking/

https://www.christymking.com/

Enjoy today's conversation with Rebekah Webb.

Born and raised in Mobile, Alabama, Rebekah Webb returned to the Mobile Bay area after college and settled into an Artists' Colony known as Fairhope, where she launched her fine art career. Drawing from her Southern heritage and experiences growing up on the Gulf Coast, nature, water and family are ever-present themes in her work.

Rebekah's artwork has been featured in Southern Living Magazine, HouseBeautiful, In Her Studio, Serena & Lily, Well + Wonder Collective and can be found in private and public collections both nationally and internationally.

Rebekah received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, AL and continued fine art studies at The College of Charleston in Charleston, SC and Lorenzo De'Medici - The Art Institute of Florence, Italy. Rebekah lives and works in Fairhope, Alabama with her husband and two children.

Website: https://www.rebekahwebb.com

Link to CV: https://www.rebekahwebb.com/pages/cv

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rebekahwebbstudio/

Enjoy today's conversation with Allison James.

Allison James is a contemporary abstract painter.

James is continually inspired by the messy (but thrilling) human experience. Her work is fueled by personal events and memories, along with conversations overheard from strangers and inside storybooks. James reconfigures these felt emotions into a preferred outcome, translating feeling into her own abstracted storytelling.

With this trio of internal processing, Allison is able to construct a new visual narrative of self through her paintings, each piece speaking with saturated color and subtle details. She uses her training as a representational artist and printmaker to build up her signature silhouettes with layers of thin paint, elusive details and recognizable shapes that she endearingly refers to as her ‘decoder ring things.’

James believes a painting can be many things at once, just like people (and most things in life). The cathartic creation processes and making work that feels substantial within its own existence is what keeps her coming back for more. Allison believes her work as a mirror for all of us to see ourselves more clearly, with love and acceptance — all in due time.

Allison James has a BFA in Painting, Printmaking and Drawing. She has been seen and featured in various media, including The New York Times, The Bad on Paper podcast, Architectural Digest, Medium, Midwest Living, and Atlanta Magazine. She has been in shows throughout the US and has work in private collections around the world. Allison currently works and lives in Georgia.

https://www.allisonjamesco.com/

@the.allisonjames on Instagram

Enjoy today's episode with the incredible Lizzy Love!

Learn more about Lizzy on her website and Instagram!

Enjoy today's episode with Ashley Ozmint.

Ashley Ozmint is known for her oil landscape paintings that celebrate untouched land and views that shape the south. Ashley was born in Columbia, SC and graduated from Anderson University with a BFA in graphic design and a minor in marketing. Ashley is currently based in the mountains of Asheville, NC where she works in her home studio soaking up the views that surround. Taking notes from the Impressionist and Tonalist movements, Ashley seeks to capture an emotional interpretation from the landscape rather a realistic rendering. She has shown her work at the Grand Bohemian Lodge Gallery, Common Good Gallery, Art Fields, and The Harding Art Show. Ashley is most alive when she is outdoors. Her faith and her love for the wild fuels her work and her desire to bring a sense of peace and wonder to buyer's homes.

Learn more about Ashley:

https://www.instagram.com/ashleyozmint.art/

https://ashleystone.art/