Grant Writing Skills for Artists: Build Your Career with Confidence

Grant Writing Two-Part Mini Series is a two-part workshop that equips artists with practical tools to build sustainable careers. You’ll learn how to strengthen your grant applications with sharper pitches, solid budgets, and realistic timelines.

What You’ll Learn

Develop a clear, persuasive approach to funding applications and apply best practices that help your projects stand out to funders. You’ll use grant writing skills for artists to improve both the strategy and the presentation of your proposals.

Workshop Overview

About the series

You know art. We can teach you business.

This two-part workshop is designed to equip artists with practical tools to build sustainable careers. We’ll cover essential business and marketing skills tailored specifically for artists.

Develop your artistic practice or business strategically in order to see growth!

Part 1: The Pitch – Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Your art has potential – now you must represent it on paper in a way that will captivate the reader. In the first part of this series, you’ll learn how to craft a compelling, context-rich pitch that jumps off the page to effectively illustrate the true value of your art project. Starting with an essential grant-writing check-list, you’ll understand how to represent your work with clarity and persuasion.

Part 2: Budgets + Timelines – Wednesday, December 10, 2025

All winning grant applications include cohesive, well-thought-out budgets and timelines that accurately illustrate the project from both a time and financial perspective. In this session, we’ll focus on developing a set of best practices for crafting budgets and timelines that enhance your future grant applications and drive results.

Speaker

Caroline Gauthier, MBA, HEC & YES Artist Business Coach

Details

• Cost: $35
• Format: In person and online (live-streaming webinar)
• Pre-registration: Required

Don’t Miss Out: Reserve Your Spot Today!

Claim your access to both workshops for $35.00. This small investment could transform your funding journey.

👉 Sign up now and take a significant step toward mastering grant writing!

About the speaker:

Caroline Gauthier first began her training as an opera singer, earning her music degree at Université de Montréal, before transitioning into theatre and film. Being of an entrepreneurial spirit, she soon began producing stage shows and short films and co-founding a film collective, where she saw her films selected in festivals in Canada, Europe and the United States. After a 12-year career in arts and media, realizing that managing and coordinating were among her core strengths, Caroline chose to pursue her passion for business by completing an MBA at HEC Montreal. 

Known for her practicality, empathy, and rigor as well as for her ability for analysis and synthesis, Caroline Gauthier has long combined her creative sensibilities with her highly rational mindset in order to move projects forward both in the artistic realm as well as in the nonprofit sector.   

As an artist business coach, she brings to the table her knack for structure, forging a vision and seeing things through. She is thrilled to use her business and creative skills to put them at the service of artist-entrepreneurs and help them with their projects, from ideation to fruition. 

Pre-registration is required. This workshop is presented in English and is available in person as well as an online, live-streaming webinar.

If you registered for the in-person workshop, please arrive at the YES office, located at 666 Sherbrooke Street West, 7th floor, 15–30 minutes before the workshop begins.

For online participants, you will receive an email with login instructions a few hours before the workshop starts. If you don’t see the email one hour before the start time, please check your Spam or Junk folder.

To learn more about our services for Artists, click here.

This low registration fee is only possible thanks to our generous funders and partners.Grant Writing Skills for Artists