Workshop: Systems for a Sustainable Arts Practice

Topics include:

Inventory Management: Create a comprehensive artwork database to track your artworks, whether in the studio, on loan, or consigned, and stay on top of sales, expenses, and collectors.

Condition Reporting: Create detailed condition reports, best practices for artwork care and documentation.

Loan & Sales Agreements: Timing, communication, and recordkeeping. Understand key elements and set clear expectations for every transaction.

Participants will leave with a clear framework for managing their practice with professionalism and precision.

📅 Thursday, March 19 2026, 6:00 - 7:30pm

📍Wildseed Centre for Art & Activism

About the Facilitator:

Yan Wen Chang

Yan Wen Chang is a visual artist based in Guelph and is represented by Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto.

In addition to her painting practice, Chang served as Lead Exhibitions Coordinator and Preparator at BAND Gallery from 2020 to 2023 where she oversaw installation planning, artwork handling, condition reporting, packing and crating, and the coordination of complex exhibition changeovers. She later joined Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, as Preparator from 2023 to 2025, where she further expanded her technical and organizational skills while working in a fast-paced, high-volume environment that demanded precision, efficiency, and the upholding of exceptional gallery standards.

Chang has supported independent artist spaces and art fairs across North America, working with both two-dimensional and sculptural works in varied and time-sensitive contexts.Chang is committed to sharing technical and institutional knowledge. She mentors numerous emerging artists navigating exhibition production and professional practice, and is currently a Sessional Lecturer at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. She has delivered numerous public talks about her practice and has served as an external critic for thesis examinations.

She holds an MFA from the University of Guelph (2022) and a BFA from OCAD University (2015). As the first woman in her family to attend university and complete a master’s degree, she approaches education as both responsibility and privilege, foregrounding the cultivation of lasting artist autonomy.

About the Host:

Black Artists’ Networks in Dialogue (BAND) is a charitable organization dedicated to supporting, documenting and showcasing the artistic and cultural contributions of Black artists and cultural workers in Canada and internationally. BAND supports emerging Black artists and cultural workers by providing hands-on experience, presentation opportunities and professional development programs.

This workshop is presented with support from Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council.

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