Q&A – The Business of Art – For all those questions that need answers!

Suzanne Schultz is the founder of Canvas Fine Arts, a full-service coaching and consulting agency for artists and creatives. ​

CFA was founded in 2007 and Suzanne has represented over 100 artists locally and internationally to date. With her background in interior design and art history she wanted to help artists get exposure through the usual and not so usual venues. In addition to her own galleries in Boston and New York, she has partnered with art galleries, museums, hospitality, retail, nonprofits and design entities allowing many opportunities for her artists which has led to exposure, sales, media and corporate placements. Suzanne also provided art for the Boston City Hall galleries working with their curator and curated the offices of three Boston City Council Presidents. ​

She has been a speaker for many prestigious groups, including The Copley Society, The Providence Art Center, and Masterworks Museum in Bermuda. She had other opportunities including co-hosting BNN TV’s “It’s All About Arts” and acting as Boston’s editor of Studio 511 Magazine, published in Manhattan, allowing Suzanne to grow her audience and serve more artists. Suzanne is also a former faculty member at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in Manhattan, where she taught Art Business for Artists. ​

Her book EXPOSED Secrets of an Art Rep: 10 Tips to get Your Art Seen and Sold will be released this year.​

Rita is grateful for an extensive and happy career spent working in the arts. A graduate of Boston’s Commonwealth School and Brandeis University, her experience includes theatrical general management, arts marketing and communications, public relations, theatrical producing and, most prominently, arts publishing.

Rita is publisher of Art New England magazine as well as numerous custom publishing titles, most serving the arts and hospitality sectors. Guest speaker appearances include Sotheby’s Institute of Art; TransCultural Exchange Conference; American Women Artists; and numerous Canvas Fine Arts events, among others. Rita is a certified life coach, specializing in coaching artists and creatives on their personal and professional goals.