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CreativeStudy provides subscriptions to an ever-expanding library of online, video-based courses and actionable, inclusive events and workshops, both in-person and online. Everything we do is focused on business and financial health to build and sustain careers and communities in the arts.
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Our instructors offer practical and accessible guidance to support you in your career.
Luke Blackadar
Attorney, Deputy Director of Legal Services at the A&BC
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Marci Blackman + Diana Y Greiner
Founders of Treehouse Taxes
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Pamela Capalad + Dyalekt
Hosts of Brunch & Budget
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Miata Edoga
Actor, President and Founder at Abundance Bound
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Yanely Espinal
Director of Education Outreach at Next Gen Personal Finance
Ana Fiore
Director of Artist Services at LMCC
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Ian Fuller
Co-founder and Partner of Westfuller
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Ebony Gustave
Community Architect, Cooperative Journal Podcast Host
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Joel Kwabi
Math Teacher, Personal Finance Advocate
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Jessica Lee
Partner in the Advanced Media & Technology Practice at Loeb & Loeb
Laura Levin-Dando
Staff Attorney at Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts of NY
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Marina Lopez
Artist, Somatic Educator, Cultural Organizer
Anibal A. Luque
Founder and Managing Attorney of Luque PLLC
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Renata Marinaro
National Director of Health Services for Entertainment Community Fund
Amani Olu
Founder of Olu & Company
Rad Pereira
Artist, Cultural Worker
Mike Strode
Founding Coordinator of The Kola Nut Collaborative
Kay Takeda
Executive Director of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA)
Holding an MFA and an MBA, Amy studies the friction between art and business and proposes new structures to support economic sustainability for artists. Her third book, Economics of Visual Arts, was published in the fall of 2021 with Cambridge University Press. Amy is also author of two other books, Museum Legs and Art Thinking. Serving on the arts administration faculty at NYU, Amy researches what would happen if artists retained equity in their work. Her work on fractional equity has appeared in Management Science (with Kraussl) in the "Fast Track" intended for "high-impact research that is of broad interest.”
Amy's work has been featured in The Guardian, Harpers, The Atlantic, the Financial Times, Artforum, and The Art Newspaper. Her early work with the artists' cooperative project Trade School was covered in the New York Times and The New Yorker. She speaks widely including at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Meaning Conference (Brighton, UK), and The Conference (Malmö, Sweden). She has taught at Williams College, the Rhode Island School of Design, the School of Visual Arts, and California College of the Arts, and is a past recipient of the Sarah Verdone Writing Award from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
Attorney, Deputy Director of Legal Services at the Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston (A&BC)
Luke Blackadar is an attorney and the Deputy Director of Legal Services at the Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston (A&BC). An artist himself, he helps artists, creative start-ups, and arts nonprofits manage legal issues involving copyright, trademark, contracts, entity formation, and corporate governance. Luke also enjoys talking to groups of law students and artists and has recently spoken on art legal issues to the Americans for the Arts, the City of Boston, and students at Brown University, RISD, MassArt, and Lesley University. In addition to managing the A&BC’s legal interns, he teaches at the Boston University Metropolitan College and the Roger Williams University School of Law, and mentors students through the Northeastern University and Northeast Regional Black Law Student Associations. Luke is a graduate of Clark University and Northeastern University School of Law. In his spare time, he enjoys drawing, running, reading, and playing video games.
Treehouse Taxes, run by Diana Y Greiner and Marci Blackman in Brooklyn, New York, caters specifically to self-employed individuals and small businesses. They built the Treehouse so you will have a safe, fun, and friendly place to get your taxes done.
Marci has been providing a combination of tax preparation, bookkeeping, and accounting services to a wide range of clientele, including individuals, partnerships, and small corporations for the past 20 years. As a longtime freelancer and award-winning novelist, Marci understands what it means to “hustle” for your dreams, particularly as it pertains to taxes. As a partner in Treehouse Taxes LLC, Marci believes transferring knowledge and helping artists and freelancers become savvy taxpayers is a form of social justice.
Diana Y Greiner knows about cobbling together an income, tracking expenses, and pursuing a dream. She has spent over 20 years juggling the life of a performing artist while developing and maintaining her left brain as the managing director of an arts organization, a waitress, an acrobatics instructor, an office manager, a massage therapist, a bookkeeper, and finally a full-fledged tax nerd by earning her EA. Through it all she maintains that connection is the point of everything.