Find Your Breakthrough.
The annual conference where working artists in Dallas Fort Worth get the business skills to turn craft into a career. Two days. Four breakthroughs. One community.
At a glance
Latino Cultural Center · Dallas, TX
Dates
September 11 + 12, 2026
Venue
Latino Cultural Center, Dallas
Format
Friday evening kickoff plus full Saturday
Tracks
Four pillars, three session levels
Who
Working artists, all disciplines
Not another talk.
Art Boost bridges the skills gap between business and the arts. Working artists across every discipline (visual, performing, literary, and more) come together for two days of real-world business education built around how artists actually work.
2026 marks our fourth year and our first as an independent 501(c)(3). The theme, Find Your Breakthrough, is built on what artists told us they need: Specific skills. Honest conversations about money. People who get it. And a plan to take home on Sunday morning.
Four breakthroughs every artist hits.
Years of survey data, focus groups, and listening to artists in DFW pointed at the same four walls. The 2026 conference is built to help you break through each one.
Break Through the Money Wall
Pricing. Taxes. Grants. Reading a P&L. Building income that does not disappear in February. Financial fluency framed as a requirement for sustaining your art, not a betrayal of it.
Break Through the Noise
Marketing that goes beyond posting more on Instagram. Direct outreach, strategic word of mouth, and the metrics that show you what is actually working so you can do less of what is not.
Break Through the Overwhelm
The admin, grant writing, scheduling, email backlog. Systems and self-leadership for the parts of an art career that are not the art. Including how artists are actually using AI to claw back time.
Break Through Together
Most artist income comes from referrals, yet most artists describe building those relationships as the hardest part. We make the room and the introductions, you bring the work.
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One and a half days
Friday Kickoff
Saturday Conference
Wherever you are in your art career.
Level 1
You are building the base.
You make work, you sell some of it, but the business side feels like a different language. You need the foundational skills (pricing, marketing basics, how taxes actually work for someone in your situation) and a community that does not make you feel behind.
Level 2
You are hitting a plateau.
You have been doing this a while.
Your work is good. Your income is not keeping up with your craft, or it is wildly inconsistent, or the admin is eating your studio time. You need Level 2 content and conversations with people working at the same edge.
Level 3
You are ready to level up.
You have a working practice and steady income, and you are ready to push into new territory (new formats, new tools, longer-range planning).
You want advanced sessions and peers who are building at the leading edge alongside you.
The venue
Latino Cultural Center
Latino Cultural Center
2600 Live Oak Street, Dallas, Texas 75204
Parking, accessibility, and travel details closer to the event.
Your breakthrough is waiting. Grab your seat.
Two days, four breakthroughs, one community. September 11 + 12 at the Latino Cultural Center. Tickets are on sale now.