About Savvy Workshops

We built this for the artists who are tired of doing it the hard way.

Our Mission

When artists are well resourced, they change the world.

That’s not a nice idea. That’s what we’ve seen happen. When you’re not scrambling to pay your bills or burning three hours making reels just to get one more person in your workshop — you paint more. You teach more. You show up for your community. You use that freed-up energy for something that matters.

There’s real science behind what making art does to the human brain. It changes how we see. How we think. How we connect with each other. The world needs more of that right now, not less.

So we built Savvy Workshops. A marketplace where artists find the workshops that are right for them, and instructors build teaching businesses that actually work. Not a listing. Not a room. A system. The tools, the student pipeline, the materials lists, the marketing support — all of it, so you can spend less time figuring out how to fill a class and more time teaching the one you’ve got.

We take 18%. That’s it. Not 50%. Not a cut plus a fee plus a percentage of nothing. Eighteen percent, in exchange for doing the work that used to eat your studio time alive.

This is our corner of the world. This is where we get to do something about it.

What We Believe

We believe artists deserve to thrive — not survive.

We believe the right workshop, taught by the right instructor, to the right student, at the right moment, can change the direction of your whole practice.

We believe the world is better when more people are making things. When more people are thinking like artists. When more people are in rooms together, learning from someone who genuinely loves what they do.

Savvy Workshops exists to make that happen. More often. For more people. With less friction and fewer people taking money they didn’t earn.

Who Built This

Savvy Workshops was built by my business partner Tom and me — Antrese Wood. I’ve been painting for most of my life, coaching artists for years, and hosting The Savvy Painter podcast since 2012. I spent a decade art directing at Disney and two years driving across Argentina painting my way from the jungles to the glaciers.

I’ve seen what happens when artists have the resources, the support, and the right community around them. I’ve also seen what happens when they don’t.

This is the platform I wish had existed when I was figuring it out.