Business smARTs: Beyond the Canvas

We’re taking you backstage into the business of art with Beyond the Canvas!

This 5-week virtual workshop, facilitated by the painter Natia Lemay, will offer Black artists insights on how to map out their career and present work in a compelling way in order to attract potential buyers, whether as an independent artist or institution-affiliated artist.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

Week 1: Career Mapping (Tuesday, October 14, 2025)
Week 2: Art World Gateways/Networking (Tuesday, October 21, 2025)
Week 3: Pricing & Digital Sales (with Guest Artist) [Tuesday, October 28, 2025]
Week 4: Representation, Institutions & Markets (Tuesday, November 04, 2025)
Week 5: Museums, Fairs & Acquisitions (Tuesday, November 11, 2025)

Natia Lemay

Natia Lemay (b. 1985, Toronto) is an interdisciplinary artist raised in Winnipeg and based in Toronto Ontario. Her autoethnographic practice draws on personal stories to explore how the mind, body, and space interact, reflecting on lived experience as a lens to understanding broader cultural and social contexts. 

Natia Lemay has exhibited widely throughout North America. The artist was selected for the 2025 CIBC C2 Art Program, 2024 Fountainhead residency in Miami and the 2022 Royal Drawing School Residency in Dumfries, Scotland. She was awarded the National Trust Prize at Expo Chicago 2024, with her work acquired by High Museum in Atlanta in addition to being collected by the Art Gallery of Ontario, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Minnesota Museum of American Art, The North Dakota Museum of Art and The Montclair Museum of Art. She is represented by Galerie Nicolas Robert in Montreal, Yossi Milo Gallery in New York City and Wilding Cran Gallery in Los Angeles.  She received her BFA from Ontario College of Art and Design in 2021 with a minor in Social Sciences and her MFA from Yale School of Art in 2023.