Freelance Business Basics

Course overview
A financial guide for artists, writers, performers, and other members of the creative class

About the course

This course is an engaging and accessible guide to must-know financial and business topics specifically tailored to the unique professional challenges faced by individuals in the arts and other creative industries. You’ll learn practical techniques for budgeting, dealing with unexpected expenses, and thriving financially, even when tax season comes around. 

By the end of Freelance Business Basics you’ll be able to approach your work with a renewed sense of financial responsibility and stability and devote more time to your craft—not your financial worries.

Course Lessons

Elaine Grogan Luttrull

Elaine Grogan Luttrull, CPA-PFS, AFC® is the founding owner of Minerva Financial Arts, a company devoted to improving financial literacy in creative individuals through education and counseling. 
She works with approximately 1,500 individuals annually and partners with supporters of creative individuals across the country including Creative Capital, the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Sundance, TCG, Firelight Media, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, a wide variety of colleges, universities, and conservatories, and a handful of state, regional, and national governmental groups. Elaine lives in Dublin, Ohio (Kaskaskia and Hopewell indigenous and cultural lands).
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