WORKSHOP | Creative Maker Business Skills | Lea Durie

WORKSHOP | Creative Maker Business Skills | Lea Durie

Are you making beautiful things and want to build a life that allows you to follow your creative passions? Do you want to take your creative hobby to the next step or have you completed an arts course and want to know how to use all that learning to earn a living?

Starting a creative maker business can be challenging when you don’t know where to start.

In this course, over three evenings, artist Lea Durie will guide participants through the basic steps of launching or building a creative business. Feel like you’ve already got the groundwork, curate what you learn and upskill with individual sessions and learn how to apply and prepare your business for specialistic events!

Three informative sessions and topics to choose from

Session 1 | So you want to build a maker business | Wednesday 27 August 2025
Session 2 | To Market To Market | Wednesday 3 September 2025
Session 3 | Opening Your Studio | Wednesday 10 September 2025
Artist Biography

Ceramic artist Lea Durie has built a successful maker business and arts practice, firstly as a side hustle and then as a full-time career. Before that Lea was in a leadership role in government mentoring others to build careers that worked for them. Lea loves the business side of making and is now bringing these skills together to help others build successful maker businesses

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