Art Collection Management

Description

Art Collection Management
with Joy Wolfe

Sunday-Monday, February 15-16, 2026 | 12 pm -4 pm

Experience Level: All Levels Welcome
Registration: Each student needs to enroll individually.
Location: Theatre Studio, Sedona Arts Center

There is no better time than today to begin documenting your art collection and legacy!

Take this first step and you will sleep better knowing your life’s work, the art you’ve been creating, or collecting for years, is catalogued, valued and protected. This course will guide you to develop a practice that can assist you daily in keeping an organized catalogue of your collections. You will take away a comprehensive plan to move forward with the tools to protect your assets, document your collectibles, and be prepared for unforeseen events. This is a two-day, hands-on workshop with a seasoned arts advisor, avid collector, and art appraiser who draws on her own experiences to share why this is so vitally important. Think of this course as a gift to your future self and the ones you love.

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Joy Wolfe

Joy Wolfe has been an advocate for the arts for over 40 years and views herself as an artist and lifelong learner who is passionate about educating the public to why the arts are vitally important to our culture and humanity.

She has studied art history, commercial art, fine art, interior design, marketing, small business management, and fine art appraising. Joy is a former member of the PPFA, Professional Picture Framers of America and has been a custom picture framer for many established award winning artists around the world.

In 2007, Joy’s passion brought her to Amsterdam to study art history and interior design respectively at the Van Gogh and other museums in Holland. After a decade in interior design she pivoted to working with artists and collectors.

After two years of documenting and organizing the collection of Master Artist Jon Arfstrom, Joy started a 501c3 non-profit in 2018 for his wife and family. He left an indelible legacy and collection of over 2000 pieces of fine art.

Joy is on the Board of Directors for the Atelier Studio Program of Fine Arts in Minneapolis. She teaches workshops in DIY Framing and Art Collection Management, helps fundraise and is the Curator of the Lynn Maderich Collection for the Atelier. She has curated dozens of art exhibitions, given lectures on artists and works as a liaison with families on art legacy.

Fine Art Advocates was founded to incorporate the multiple disciplines Joy values and to be a strong voice for the arts. Over the past decade she has been advising emerging artists in Minneapolis and around the country. As a consultant and art appraiser she is committed to providing services that educate and facilitate thoughtful communication in the art communities that she works within.

Cancellation Policy

Registration:

Each student must enroll individually.
Students may register online or by calling the Sedona Arts Center’s Office at 928-282-3809, ext. 1.
Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express are accepted or student may pay with cash or check by registering in person during office hours, Monday – Friday, 9 am – 5 pm.

In-Person and Online Workshops Registration/Cancellation Policy:

Payment in full is due upon registration, or a payment plan can be put in place by the student upon check-out through Sezzle.
There is a 15% Cancellation Fee for any cancellations made before January 15, 2026. Remaining balance will be refunded.
There are no refunds after January 15, 2026.
If Sedona Arts Center cancels the workshop for any reason, all payments made will be refunded in full.

Note: If traveling to Sedona, we strongly urge students to purchase refundable airline tickets or travel insurance in case of workshop cancellation due to insufficient enrollment or other unforeseen changes. Sedona Arts Center is not responsible for non-refundable ticket purchases or lodging fees.

Important Cancellation Policy Message:

The Sedona Arts Center is not responsible for providing make-up sessions or issuing refunds, credits, or transfers for courses missed as a result of illness, emergencies, or other events beyond our control. There are absolutely no refunds after the cut-off date for any reason, unless the Sedona Arts Center has to cancel the workshop, then all fees paid will be refunded in full.

Cyd Wicker

If you are looking for assistance as an artist, or art collector in need of advice in the field of art, I highly recommend Joy Wolfe of Fine Art Advocates. I met Joy in 2017 and she has brought a needed fresh awareness and healthy perspective to my personal business as a fine artist, teacher, and Director of The Atelier Studio Program of Fine Art. Joy, an artist herself, has shared her passion and skills in advocacy for the arts by teaching me and our artists how we can better present ourselves online, at exhibits and document and share our collections, as well as sharing information on art conservation, business skills and legacy building. Everyone that I know who has worked with her, has increased their level of confidence and success whether it is in creating art, cataloguing, preserving, selling or purchasing art. Her guidance includes both individually by appointment, and collectively in classes she teaches, and has taught at The Atelier, with hands-on demonstrations to insure a positive outcome. Joy covers a wide range of topics on art and the business of art. Her years of experience in the art world as a fine art representative, continued work experience in printing, framing, designing and preservation of art, plus her extensive knowledge as a qualified fine art appraiser gives her clients and students the best possible opportunities for success in their chosen field.

David Ginsberg, Eclipse Productions ,The Journey In Light

As a professional photographer with 40 years of experience I found Joy Wolfe’s class on Art Collection Management incredibly valuable. I shoot both commercially for local, national and international clients as well as a second business of fine art landscape photography. Needless to say, 40 years of pursuing this profession has left an enormous amount of imagery to keep track of. I have made the transition from film to digital early on. The prints and film are easy to keep track of but use a lot of filing cabinet space. The digital is also fairly easy to keep track of if I treat it as hard copies and create files within files for access. Her introduction to using the program of Artworks Archive, simplified a lot of duplication and time consuming work of tracking who has purchased what and when, as well as for how much. Her course on Art Collection Management allowed me to place everything in one location and offsite. Protecting my work and allowing me to give access to particular areas for clients interested in very specific types of work without having to grind through multiple pages not related to their interests. Joy’s ability to deliver a comprehensive and well thought out course allowed me to shorten my own filing workload time as well as creating easy access for clients. In addition to the Art Collection Management class she also offers a DIY Framing class. I found this particular class extremely helpful in helping me decide what type of framing and how to assess what will make my work come to life. In my estimation both of these classes are well worth the time and money.