What if one of the simplest ways to take a break from a stressful workday was to stop looking at your screen and look at a painting instead? For people working in IT, finance, consulting, design or any screen-heavy profession, this might sound almost too simple. The workday can move from one meeting to another, with emails, deadlines, spreadsheets, code and notifications competing for attention. Taking a few quiet minutes to look at art may not seem particularly productive. B

Think about the last time you had an unplanned conversation with a colleague. Maybe it happened while making coffee. Maybe someone stopped by your desk and a five-minute conversation turned into twenty minutes. Perhaps you discussed a weekend plan, complained about a meeting, or discovered something you had in common. These moments rarely appeared on a calendar. Yet they were part of what made a workplace feel like a workplace. Then COVID-19 changed where we worked, and many

Ask artists this question and the answers rarely sound the same. Some will talk about money. Others will mention visibility, finding collectors, staying motivated, managing social media, understanding the business side of their practice, or finding enough time to make the work they actually want to make. But beneath these different answers, there is often a common problem: artists are expected to build an entire career around their practice, often without being taught how to