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FREE Facebook Live, Bingo Board and more!

Have you signed up for your FREE place on MATS MBA (Money BadAss) yet? We’re giving it to you as a gift during this uncertain time, so you have something positive to focus on and to help you find a way to build a thriving creative business. As you know, we are currently living through a strange and unprecedented time in world history – a time that art agent Lilla is calling the between worlds, where we’re caught between the old life that we knew and a new uncertain future. It’s left many of us feeling confused, unsettled, scared. Where do we go from here? In her recent free Facebook Live event for our new MBA students (want in? Sign up for your FREE place here), Make Art That Sells co-founders Lilla and Beth talked about reframing your experience of this time. While there is plenty for us to be

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Get your FREE career planning worksheet, plus Lilla’s video of all the cool art jobs out there

First up, it is 100% absolutely your last chance to sign up for Assignment Bootcamp today, so if you want in – and we both know that you do – then book your spot NOW! Registration closes at 11.59pm PT and will not re-open again until 2021! Secondly, our fabulous Spring Sale starts one week today! We’ve got some delicious bundles of goodness to tempt you, plus discounts across every single one of our upcoming raved-about online courses – don’t miss it! Look out for your gorgeous FREE sale guide in next week’s newsletter! Today, in the run-up to the sale, we’re sharing this nutty worksheet from Lilla. Let’s say you’re an acorn: what will you become? Are you going to work your way up the tree right to the top, setting yourself a goal and working out all the steps you need to take? Or are you going to

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HURRY! Absolutely positively 100% last chance to sign up for Assignment Bootcamp 2020!

All aboard the Bootcamp train please: this train is preparing to pull out of the station. Assignment Bootcamp officially started Monday, March 2nd, but, due to popular demand, we’ve re-opened registration TODAY for a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it 72 hour window. HURRY! We will close Bootcamp 2020 registration for good on Thursday, March 26th at 11.59pm PT. It isn’t in our calendar again this year, so this will be your last chance to take part until 2021! Even though class started in March, there’s a fresh new assignment every month, so if you sign up now you’ll be ready to start the April assignment on Monday, April 6th along with the rest of the class as well as getting the March bonus content on Monday, March 30th. Plus you’ll have instant access to the March assignments to complete in your own time (want some motivation? Check out the gorgeous student gallery here) so

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Assignment Bootcamp is reopening for a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it three day window!

Oops – you did it again. Every single year, we get emails from students kicking themselves for not signing up for Assignment Bootcamp, especially when our first public gallery goes live (look out for the eye candy on March 24th). They see the incredible work that our students are producing, and how much fun they’re having, and how quirky and inspiring the assignments are, and they think: DAMN. We have great news for all you FOMO Fionas and Last-minute Larries: we’ll be re-opening registration for Bootcamp for a super limited blink-and-you’ll-miss-it window from this coming Tuesday, March 24th, to Thursday, March 26th. But that really truly utterly completely is your very last chance! Q: Won’t I be missing out if I sign up next week? Class started on March 2nd! A: One of the great things about Bootcamp is that you get a brand new assignment for a different market

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From our founders Lilla and Beth: A career-supporting gift for you in these tough times

How are you doing with all that is going on in the world? Together we are facing an unprecedented, challenging time. Everything is shifting, and many things are uncertain. In the face of this, we want you to know that the MATS community is here for you. Art can be a powerful force for good, a support for our collective mental health, and a way to stay connected with ourselves and each other. Make Art That Sells Founders: Lilla Rogers and Beth Kempton We also know that now, more than ever, we need tools and innovation to allow us to imagine a new kind of future, where we can be creative in the way we generate money to support our families, pay the bills, and help keep our local communities thriving. That’s why we want to gift every single person in our community a free place on our online course

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Get your work in front of a top art agent: Lilla announces LIVE review for Creating Collections for Home Décor

Do you adore home décor? Do you dream of seeing your beautiful art on fabric, ceramics and more in stores like Anthropologie? Our raved-about online course, Creating Collections for Home Décor, now in its fifth year, will give you incredible indepth insight into five key substrates – fabric, wood, ceramics, glass and metal – and, uniquely, will teach you how to create home décor collections, so you can sell more art to each client. Like our other renowned courses, Hot Markets for Your Art Part A and Part B, Creating Collections for Home Décor is self-paced, meaning you can dive in right away and complete it at a time and pace to suit you. And, as a special bonus, once a year, to motivate and inspire you, Lilla sets a deadline for submission for an assignment from each course. She’ll then view all of the pieces submitted to the gallery

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FREE VIDEO: What does an art agent look for in a portfolio?

Did you hear the big news? Our surprise special guest for March Bootcamp is … Lisa Congdon! Fine artist and illustrator Lisa Congdon is best known for her colorful, graphic drawings and hand lettering, and for sharing creative inspiration through her books, podcast recordings, Instagram feed and public speaking. She’s the author of eight books, including the starving-artist-myth-smashing Art Inc: The Essential Guide to Building Your Career as an Artist, bestselling Whatever You Are, Be a Good One, and her latest book Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic. She has worked for clients around the world including Comme des Garçons, Crate and Barrel, Facebook, MoMA, REI, among many others. She was named one of 40 Women Over 40 in 2015 and is featured in the 2017 book, 200 Women Who Will Change the Way you See the World – and in case you can’t

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Time for class! Assignment Bootcamp starts today with a FREE Facebook Live event and a HUGE REVEAL!

GET READY TO LOVE MONDAYS! Our most popular course, Assignment Bootcamp 2020, starts TODAY: get a little packet of awesome from top art agent Lilla Rogers every Monday for the next 17 weeks that will add up to make some incredible art to stretch and strengthen your portfolio. What a great way to start the week! Today in class, for example, you’ll get these three fabulous worksheets: Tracing Shapes, which builds on the FREE #MATSprep we gave out a few weeks ago and goes further into exploring beautiful shapes and outlines Making Lines, a cool way to make marks Lilla’s hotly anticipated Color Combo of the Year, plus your very own Blobby Color Palette to fill in … which will all come together to help you create your final assignment next week, so, just like that, you’ve cranked out a gorgeous piece of art for your portfolio, ready to help

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Get your FREE Assignment Bootcamp #MATSprep and art supply shopping list

Assignment Bootcamp 2020 starts in less than a week, on Monday, March 2nd, and today as a warm up we’re giving you a little taster from class plus an art supply shopping list as your FREE #MATSprep! Yes, you read that right – part of your prep this time round is choosing some new art supplies! Lilla’s art from Assignment Bootcamp #MATSprep. What will the prep be? Find out more and download your copy below! What’s Assignment Bootcamp? It’s four glorious months of art-making in the company of an encouraging crowd of creatives from all over the world. You’ll get something from art agent Lilla every single Monday for four months – maybe a playful downloadable worksheet, a quirky mini assignment, a video or an interview with an industry expert – and by putting them all together you’ll make four kick-ass portfolio pieces (one per month) for four of the