Every year I share on my blog what my art goals for the year is. I am showing you my art goals 2026. These are of course personalized goals. I'm also taking a look at the goals that I made the previous year and 2025 and seeing what I accomplished and what I didn’t. I'm also going to be sharing what my accomplishments are for the past year of 2025 and what I'm most proud of in my art business as well as a bit about my family life. To check out my art goals 2026 keep reading below.
Art Goals 2026
My Accomplishments from 2025
As someone who often forgets to celebrate things, I think it's really important to take a look back and reflect on the year and take some time to really celebrate what I am proud of in my art business, as well as with my personal life.
Starter Company Plus Program:
This year, I was accepted into the Starter Company Plus Program which is a business coaching and training program for small businesses in Ontario, Canada. There's also part of the program is to create a business plan as well as a marketing plan and taking a look at your small business and thinking about how you can grow it into a bigger business than it was before. At the end of the program there's also a pitch competition where you are pitching your small business, and trying to win a grant, so I was awarded a grant of $4500 to help support my business. Part of the pitch included, creating a budget about how you would use the grant money to grow your small business. So for the grant money, I purchased a printer and some other materials for my cyanotype business. I also worked with a contract worker to help me create new symmetry books, which I listed on Amazon for sale. I also use the money to run Pinterest ads to grow my email list for teachers who are interested in my FREE symmetry drawing and teachers pay teachers products.
I am particularly proud of myself for running Pinterest ads running ads with your business can be really intimidating to spend the money and not knowing if the investment is going to work out or not so I'm really happy that I tried Pinterest ad and I was able to gain a lot of people on my email list.
I'm also proud of myself for finding and working with a contract worker which can be a scary and intimidating process as a small business owner but it worked out successfully and she was able to create different symmetry drawing books for me that you can check out right here.
HobbyScool:
HobbyScool has been a very nice partnership for me. I've participated and two of their free online art the Art of Expression summit in spring 2025 and the Art of Handmade summit in fall 2025. These are great online summit because they are free for people to attend. People are also exposed to me. Therefore they can follow me on social media and join my email list, which is really nice for me to help support those business goals. HobbyScool reached out to me organically so it’s nice to see things falling in place for my business.
HobbyScool also asked me to create an acrylic painting workshop for the craft and create club membership. You can check out their art workshop membership which is 7$ a month by clicking on the button below is an affiliate link meaning that I will get a small commission for sharing the link for you however, there is no additional charge for you with the membership.
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Teaching Workshops:
This year I was asked to run a cyanotype a workshop with Cambridge Art Galleries I had participated in a group exhibition with Cambridge Art Galleries in 2021 so it was nice for them to reach out and personally contact me to see if I'd be interested in running this workshop. They also paid CARFAC fees which are proper fees for artist. It was nice to be paid very well for a workshop and also to have the supplies reimbursed.
I also got to run workshops for a local family at their cottage and figure out my pricing for the workshops and signing invoices so this was a really good experience to kind of try private workshops and figure out a good pricing structure for them.
I created a course about helping teens, create art portfolios for school applications and worked on the launch process this year although the course didn't end up successfully running, I learned a lot about the course creation and launch process. I am looking forward to applying that into future courses that I create. I also purchased a course hosting platform Thrivecart, which I'm excited to use in the future.
Finding part-time work to suit my schedule and support my business:
This year I taught a couple of online art high school classes with a private school organization. These classes were in the evening and it was difficult to teach late at night from 7 to 9 PM but I was able to make it work with my schedule so that I could still be present with my son and have time to work on my business so I talked to different classes with this organization.
I also worked as a part-time art teacher for a local Montessori school. I worked two days a week on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, which gave me flexibility to still work on my art business and take care of my son whenever he was sick.
Lastly, I worked a bit as a supply teacher for the local school board which allowed me flexibility to choose my schedule and decide when I would work.
My 2025 Art Goals
A lot of my 2025 goals did not happen. I think as an overachiever I can be a little bit unrealistic with the goals that I want to complete. Our son started a full-time daycare. I was busy working with the Starter Company Plus Program 35 hours a week for the fall and winter and then also started supply teaching and teaching art at a local Montessori school.
My son had his first year in full time day care, so he was sick about 50% of the time which I was really not expecting. With my work being more flexible than my husband, I stayed home to take care of him when I needed to.
Receive 2 Grants for my Art
I received one grant through the Starter Company Plus Program to work on my art business. I applied to three others with the Ontario Arts Council but did not receive them unfortunately.
3000 people on my Mailing List
I am closer to reaching this goal but not yet!
3 More Symmetry Drawing Books on Amazon
I ended up listing 7 symmetry drawing books on Amazon -you can check them out here!
Listing my Fine Art on Etsy
I did not get around to this I will do this project in 2026 or 2027
Sell Prints on Printful
I did not get to this but I will soon.
Create Digital Portfolio for Brands
I am in the process of this goal.
Create Art Portfolio Course
I created the course and tried launching it but I have decided to go a different direction.
Create Workshop Course for Teens
I am still thinking and planning this.
1000 followers on at instagram
I am growing my Instagram slowly but surely my art education instagram has over 1200 followers.
3-5 Exhibitions
I had two with the Grand National Fibres Exhibition I participated in.
1000 YouTube Subscribers
I have close to 800 subscribers. You can subscribe here to show your support.
200 TPT Products
I have just over 110 products, I am working on optimizing the products I have.
Art Goals 2026
I had a baby boy in September 2025 so this year I will be on maternity leave. I will not be working with any of my part-time teaching jobs that I worked with last year.
Knowing that I will be taking care of a baby this year, I want to really plan my goals. My word of the year for 2025 was strategic, and really thinking about my business in a more strategic way, and less of a side hustle where income came in sporadically.
Also, since we already have a toddler, I know what it's like to be on maternity leave and have a small art business on the side that I wanted to work on I know realistically that I won't be able to work on it very much and I'll probably get about 10 hours to work on my business if I'm lucky each week. Which I am happy with and blessed that I am able to take a maternity leave to be with my boys.
Areas of Focus for 2026:
In 2026, I really want to focus on optimizing and adding systems into my art business so that I can be more successful by working less hours.
Improving SEO on TPT Products:
Specifically, I want to optimize products that I have on TPT products that are not selling well. I want to improve their SEO and make those products better so that I can increase my sales on TPT brings in the most revenue for my art business at the moment.
Improving Ads on Symmetry Drawing Books:
I will also be working on optimizing the symmetry trying books that I have on Amazon and learning more about Amazon ads and purple perfecting Amazon app so that I can increase my sales of symmetry drawing books.
Improving SEO on websites and Updating Websites:
I have two websites for my business. I have my fine art business www.jackiepartridge.com and I have my art education business which highlights my symmetry drawing books, my TPT resources as well as my acrylic painting, YouTube channel and that website is www.jackiepartridgeart.com. I want to work on making sure that these websites are current and have correct information.
I also want to update the SEO on the website so that people will be able to find me on the Internet a lot easier which will help me grow.
Create New TPT products- Hit 150
Grow Email List 3000 people
If Time:
Apply to more art exhibitions and art grants
List cyanotypes on Etsy and start my cyanotype print store with printful
Look into other affiliate connections
These are my art goals for 2026. I would love to know what your art goals are feel free to post them in the comments below or send me a DM on Instagram
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