Driving Lessons

Driving Lessons is an ongoing series of professional development workshops that prepares artists to succeed in their career and artistic practice through skill-building exercises with guest speakers and professionals.

Subscribe to Wave Pool newsletter to receive future classes announcements

(((2026))

Summer Sessions

Artists in Leadership:

A Civic and Creative Workshop

Your creativity belongs in civic life and this workshop will show you why and how. Communities need leaders who listen, tell stories, build coalitions, and imagine something better. Those are artist skills. Dr. Quanice Floyd and Tom Tresser will guide participants through the civic landscape: where decisions get made, who makes them, and how to earn a seat at the table. Through a culture-wars history exercise, a Leadership Assets Inventory, and a mock candidate rally, participants will see how creative practices translate directly into civic leadership.

Art Practice as Care:

Tools for Sustainable Creative Work


Burnout isn't a personal failure, it's a pattern. This workshop creates space to examine it. Led by curator and psychotherapist Gabrielle Banzhaf, this full-day workshop helps artists recognize their own patterns, understand their limits, and make clearer decisions about work and life. The day moves through burnout recognition, capacity mapping, boundary-setting, and navigating uncertainty through guided exercises and peer discussion. Participants leave with concrete tools: a Burnout Timeline, a Capacity Map, and practiced Boundary Scripts. PURCHASE TICKETS HERE

Resources

Past materials

DRIVING LESSONS (2020)

Driving Lessions Resources (Past Classes)