Artist Resource Collective | LiveARC: Tending Your Financial Garden
Saturday, March 21 | 11AM–4PM
Facilitated by David Thomson
Created in collaboration with David Thomson and Artist Resource Collective
Tending Your Financial Garden is a day of workshops and engagements focused on supporting artists’ financial lives by tending to the often unseen systems that sustain artistic practice. Through practical tools for budgeting, income planning, taxes, and resource navigation, artists are invited to explore financial knowledge as a root system—one that supports longevity, mutual aid, and collective resilience. Together, we will share strategies for planting sustainable futures, strengthening networks of support, and understanding financial practices as acts of care within an interconnected artistic ecosystem.
The event lasts 11AM-4PM, scheduled events will be announced on the website.
Artist Resource Collective, powered by YoungArts, addresses key topics such as personal finance, business structures, contracts and agreements, taxes, grant writing, legal issues, intellectual property, and more as it continues to grow. At its core, ARC is guided by a philosophy of care—by providing artists with the resources they need to build lasting, fulfilling lives and careers. Supporting the individual to facilitate the artist.
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David Thomson is an interdisciplinary artist who has worked extensively across the fields of dance, music, performance, and theater for over 40 years, working and collaborating with a wide range of artists including Bebe Miller, Trisha Brown (1987-1993), Ralph Lemon, Sekou Sundiata, Marina Abramović, Yvonne Rainer, Maria Hassabi, and Matthew Barney among many others. Thomson’s work has been recognized with awards and fellowships from United States Artists[Ford], New York Foundation for the Arts, Yaddo, MacDowell, Rauschenberg, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the Alpert Award. He was honored with a Bessie for Sustained Achievement (2001) and for Outstanding Production for he his own mythical beast (2018).
Thomson initiated the Artist Sustainability Project with Kate Watson-Wallace in 2017, as an ongoing platform that seeks to expand the discourse and ideas of financial, artistic, and personal empowerment in the arts community. In 2024, he and Emily Waters developed YoungArts’ Artist Resource Collective (ARC), a financial wellness and professional development program.