Pick your stage, then pick your Master.

Choose the group stage – Aspiring, Emerging or Accomplished – that best matches where you are at in your artist journey.

Aspiring artists are generally focused on developing their signature style, and want to focus on technique, materials, colour and composition.

Emerging artists are generally focused on making their passion a profitable career, and want to focus on sales and marketing, achieving technical excellence, and making their studio time efficient.

Accomplished artists have become established and successful with their art career – so now what? Mastery!

After picking your stage, choose the Master Artist who aligns with your medium, your subject matter, and who personally resonates with you. You’ll be spending a lot of time with your Master, so make sure you choose a Master who you believe will truly help you!

A Mastrius Master must have 20+ years of full-time dedication to their craft. They posess a unique style accompanied by an exceptional level of talent. They also must be passionate about mentorship, teaching and supporting growing artists. 

A few more requirements include: 

• Experience with teaching workshops and/or mentoring artists
• Commercial success as evidenced by gallery representation and/or significant online sales
• Engagement with followers, fans, students, on social media or via an email subscribers list

Your Navigator is a growing artist just like you, and is provided by Mastrius to ensure your group operates well, and to ensure your learning needs are met.

Every group includes a Navigator. Navigators are not Mentor Artists, and are also benefiting from the Mentor’s mentorship. As fellow artists, they understand your challenges and successes. As experienced facilitators, they’re well equipped to ensure your group runs well and you get full value from your time at Mastrius.

Some of the things your Navigator does are:

• Ensure the monthly sessions run on schedule, and everyone gets a chance to speak and share
• Support the Mentor with preparation
• Help everyone with the technology
• Help your group select a new Mentor (your Navigator will stay with your group after your Mentor changes)

There are 3 stages.

Aspiring artists are generally focused on developing their signature style, and want to focus on technique, materials, colour and composition.

Emerging artists are generally focused on making their passion a profitable career, and want to focus on sales and marketing, achieving technical excellence, and making their studio time efficient.

Accomplished artists have become established and successful with their art career – so now what? Mastery!

Mastrius’ Mentorship groups are high-impact apprenticeship communities.

There are a maximum of 8 Member artists in each Mentorship group, plus a Navigator facilitator, plus the Master.

Your group meets with your Master Artist once monthly for a 2 hour live mentoring session using Zoom. Between monthly sessions, you get support and encouragement from your artist peers on Mastrius’ private discussion board, Mastrius Chat.

During the first hour of each monthly session the Master provides feedback on the homework you completed since your last session. The second hour of each session is spent in new teaching, with the teaching focused on what your Master feels you need to know next to progress on your artist journey. Every session ends with a homework assignment related to the teaching.

Since there is no homework to review in the first session, the first hour of the first Mastermind session typically has the Master ensuring they fully understand the needs of each Member. This time is also a great opportunity for you to get to know the other artists in the group.

Our Members tell us the safe community their group provides gives them the encouragement and support essential to venture out into new territory.

The curriculum is not pre-decided, and your individual needs will determine what your Master teaches you.

After you register for your Mentorship group, we’ll email a Member Profile form for you to fill out. In this form you’ll tell us about your goals, your challenges, your current skills – all the stuff your Master needs to know to be able to help you out.

Before meeting you, your Master will review your form to understand how to best help you. The curriculum is not pre-decided. The mentoring and training your Master Artist will provide depends on what YOU need to learn. It will be tailored specifically in response to what you’ve told us about YOUR goals and challenges.

When you join a second (or third or fourth) mentorship group, you’ll receive a 10%
discount on that group.

To receive the discount, use the coupon code provided on the Mastrius Perks page.
The Perks page is found in the Resources section of MyStudio.

Between monthly sessions you share your progress, get help from your peers, and celebrate & encourage each other on Mastrius Chat.

Mastrius Chat is a discussion board that we’ve built specifically for our artists. There’s an area on Mastrius Chat that’s completely private to your group, and your Navigator will also be there to connect with you. Recordings of every monthly session are also posted on Mastrius Chat just in case you miss a session or want to review the discussion.

Your group’s Master will not generally connect on Mastrius Chat. The availability of a world-class Master Artist is extremely limited, so take full advantage of the face-to-face monthly live videoconference sessions. Your Navigator will bring questions raised by the group on Mastrius Chat to your Master, ensuring your needs are addressed in the monthly sessions.

After 4-6 months, your group is welcome to invite a different Master Artist to come and mentor you.

By bringing in a new Master, your learning journey never needs to grow stale, and you can access the wealth of experience our many different Masters have to offer.

Changing out your group’s Master is optional, and your Navigator will help you through this process.

The recording of your last group session with your Master is available for one month until the next group mentoring session.

Existing members in a group will have shared openly, and sometimes quite vulnerably, with their group, and providing a library of session recordings violates confidentiality and trust.  These previously-joined members also paid to participate in these earlier sessions, and it is just not fair to later give them away for free.

In case you’re worried, joining a group after it has already met several times does not diminish or compromise the value you will receive.  You’re starting a relationship with a Master Artist, and not joining a course in progress.

In case it’s ever needed, we also offer a 30-day full money-back guarantee. If – after you gave us feedback on your situation and you provided us the opportunity to make things right – you feel you have not received fair value, we will refund your first month of Mentorship subscription payments.

No refunds will be given after your 2nd month of session attendance

If a group has space available, you can join anytime.That means the group you’re joining may have already been meeting for a while. Don’t worry that you’ll feel left out or left behind! Your Navigator will be sure to bring you up to speed – and because mentoring is all about responding to your personal needs, the Master will work very hard to ensure your questions are addressed.

Check to see if your credit card has expired. If it has not, let [email protected] know and we’ll work with you to get your account back on track.

Click here for more information and fill out the form.

You have access to your account until a day before your recurring renewal date would have occurred.

If your group is Mentor Transitioning you are NOT ending

• Mentor Transition means you are inviting a new mentor to lead your group so you can continue to learn together
• Your regular rhythm will continue and no action from you is required
• If you do not wish to continue with your group to the new mentor, you need to take action to cancel your membership (fill in this form: https://www.mastrius.com/group-transitions/)

If your group is ending

• In this case you are NOT inviting a new mentor to lead your group and your group will disband
• A group ends when the Members or Mentor decide the group should not continue monthly.
  • There is typically 1-2 months notice of a group’s end.
  • New members will not be able to join your group once the end date has been identified by the group.
• Following your final session with your mentor
  • Your Navigator will invite all members to a final mid-month session so you can say goodbye
  • Your Navigator can help you choose your next Mastrius mentor. Once you’ve selected your next mentor, we can add you to their group if you fill in this form: https://www.mastrius.com/group-transitions/
  • You will have access to MastriusChat and the final session recording for one month
  • Mastrius Admin will cancel your membership and you will not be charged for any additional months
• Note: Mastrius will bring your group to an end if:
  • Your group size shrinks AND you meet at your monthly session with only 2 active members
    • You group cannot meet again if it has met with 2 members. A session with 2 members will be your last.
    • You’re encouraged to invite other artists in your network to join your group so your group doesn’t need to end. Your Navigator can request marketing materials from Mastrius and distribute them to your group.
    • Note: the Navigator is not included in the member count
  • Your group shrinks 1 member
    • You group cannot have another session with your mentor if it only has 1 active member
    • Note: the Navigator is not included in the member count

Your Mentorship group membership is billed monthly, and there is no minimum commitment.

We do encourage Members to plan to spend at least 6 months at Mastrius, as it takes time for your skills to grow and for meaningful community to develop.

The monthly billing is automatic, and you have access to your account so you can cancel anytime.

• a 2-hr live & interactive group mentoring session with your Master
• access to your private discussion board on MastriusChat, so you can:
  • get to know the Navigator and the other artists in your group
  • suggest topics for your Master to address in an upcoming monthly session
  • support each other’s work on the assigned homework

Your monthly subscription is automatic and is tied to a specific Mentorship group.  If a group elects to disband (as opposed to inviting a new Master to mentor them), some members may choose to transfer into a different group, while others may choose to end their subscription.

Sometimes those Members who wish to end their subscription do not notify us in a timely fashion, which can result in them being charged for an extra month.

In the event you are charged for an extra month, after which you inform us that you had intended to cancel, we will refund the extra month’s charge less a $10 administration fee.

In case you’re worried, all members have direct/online access to their account, and you’re able to update payment methods, cancel your subscription, etc. at any time.

• On the Left-hand side menu find Payment Methods
• You will have the options to Add Payment Method, Delete, Make Default, or Edit cards.

Mastrius uses USD (United States Dollar)

MastriusChat is our online community where you can interact with your Master, Mentor, Navigator, and Group via our customized chat platform.

To log in, scroll to the bottom of this page and under MEMBERS, click MastriusChat Login.

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