The certificate combines the Foundations, Intermediate/Advanced, and Final Project courses in one package for students to earn their certification in Art Business. Throughout the program, students watch lectures from experts in the field, complete knowledge checks and interactive media, and receive invaluable scholarly resources that they can take with them post-completion. In the Foundations course, students will discover the basics of the art market, including topics such as core commercial infrastructures and other major art world players. The Intermediate and Advanced modules are combined into one comprehensive section and offer profound insights into the ins and outs of art fairs, the legal complexities surrounding buying and selling art, and the role of the curator as a tastemaker as well as an in-depth look at the art world’s future. Once students finish one of the course sections, they earn a badge of completion. The final project allows students to put the skills and expertise acquired throughout the course into action to create a professional proposal on which they receive feedback from an art business faculty member. Obtaining two badges by completing both courses, followed by submitting a successful final project, grants participants a Certificate of Completion of the program.
Once completed, participants will obtain a badge for both the Foundations in Art Business course as well as the Advanced Topics in Art Business course. Further upon submitting a successful final project, participants will earn a Certificate of Completion for the Online Certificate in Art Business and Continuing Education Unit credits.
Director of Art and Technology
Gareth Fletcher is a Lecturer and Seminar Tutor in Art Business. He holds a BA (Art History, History) and BFA (Film) from the University of Canterbury (New Zealand), a MA in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute, and is a PhD researcher at Kingston University. Gareth lectures on a range of subjects across art logistics, art business, art crime, and the application and adoption of blockchain systems within the art market. He has received a TECHNE AHRC scholarship to pursue his PhD examining the semiotics of provenance information in the establishment of cultural and economic value in the market for Near Eastern antiquities.
Read MoreFaculty and Director of Academics and Content, New York
Tim Goossens serves as Director of Academics and Content and a faculty member at Sotheby’s Institute of Art. Congruently and for almost 20 years, he has continued to also expand his curatorial practice with a variety of public art festivals, triennials, art commissions, and numerous exhibition projects worldwide, all of which inspired his past research as a contributing editor for Oxford University Press. Goossens began his career at The Museum of Modern Art, New York shortly after double graduate school in Paris, France, and in due course moved as assistant curator to MoMA PS1, where he worked closely with the founding director Alanna Heiss, renowned artists, and emerging talent alike. Following these museum positions, he became the founding director and chief curator of Ford Model's art gallery FordProject, on Manhattan's 57th Street, and a gallery director for New York's Envoy Enterprises.
Read MoreAdjunct Faculty, New York
Klaudia Ofwona Draber is a curator and the founder of KODA—a social practice residency for mid-career artists. She has lived and led arts, technology and strategy projects in Europe, Africa, and the United States. Her professional experience includes working as the Head of Public Relations at the Polish Cultural Institute New York, and as a consultant to the British Council Arts. She also worked at UBS, managing global change and local arts CSR projects.
Read MoreThis flexible, self-paced online course consists of recorded lectures and supplementary resources as well as a final project. Participants will have read-only access to the course materials for one year from the date of enrollment.
For successfully completing this course, you receive a verified Certificate of Completion from Sotheby’s Institute of Art as well as an IACET badge.
On completing the Foundations, Intermediate and Advanced Courses as well as the Final Project, participants will receive 13bContinuing Education Units. *
Our digital certificates allow you to share new skills with various social media platforms, including LinkedIn. Successful completion is defined by each instructor in the course syllabus and consists, at the least, of regular, thoughtful participation in online activities and timely submission of assigned papers or projects.
*As an IACET Accredited Provider, Sotheby’s Institute of Art offers IACET CEUs for its learning events that comply with the ANSI/IACET Continuing Education and Training Standard.