Drop-in classes, 8-week courses, summer camps, gallery nights, and studio rentals all run on different calendars. Communal runs your registrations, memberships, and bookings in one place, so your team can get back to the art.
Courses, camps, and calls for artists
Arts council and gallery software manages the specific mix of work that arts organizations do: memberships that grant artists access to exhibition opportunities, class and workshop registration on wildly different schedules, calls for artists and juried submissions, youth camps, and rentable studio or event space.
Running a heritage or ethnic cultural association with multi-generational family memberships and hall rentals? See cultural center software. This page is for arts councils, public galleries, and creative studios serving artists and the public with classes, camps, and submissions. Running camps only? See summer camp software.
Weekly drop-ins, 8-session courses, one-off workshops. Build the schedule once and it fills your calendar automatically.
Break camps out by age or activity, collect waivers, and set registration to open and close on its own.
Artists apply and upload images of their work. You review, approve, and notify, all without an inbox full of attachments.
Classrooms, studios, multipurpose rooms, flex desks. Renters book online and pay before the slot is held.
Powering 500+ community organizations
Classes, submissions, camps, rentals, and memberships run on one calendar and one member record.
A calendar of your classes, camps, and events that embeds on your website and stays current on its own.
Sent to every registrant before every class, including every session of a multi-week course.
Applications with image uploads, custom questions, and approvals, for juried shows, gallery nights, and vendor markets.
Run artist, supporter, studio-access, and corporate tiers side by side, with member pricing applied automatically.
Collect donations online or at the desk, with tax receipts issued automatically.
Hourly or daily studio space, open to the public or members-only, on the same calendar as your rooms.
Facilities and programs are separate modules. See facility rental software, program and event registration, and pricing.
Reminder sent before each one
Communal handles both weekly drop-ins and multi-session courses. Most software only handles one.
Answers, files, and notes together
Replace the committee inbox with a real submission workflow. Artists apply online and upload images of their work, and you review, approve, and notify from one place.
Desk 1 · Thu 10am to 1pm · $6/hr
Communal lets arts organizations rent flex desks and shared studio stations to members and the public, by the hour or by the day. Artists need somewhere to work. If you have the room, it can make you money.
Real results from organizations running memberships, registrations, and renewals in one place.
Big Apple Knitters Guild
North Glenmore Park Community Association
Tuscany Community Association
500+ community organizations use Communal to run memberships, programs, and bookings.
Book a walkthrough and we will show you how your arts council, gallery, or studio could use the same workflows.
Book a DemoDeeper reads on classes and camps, studio rentals, tier names, receipts, and renewals.
How to split camps by age and discipline, collect waivers, and set registration windows that open and close on their own.
Read guide →EventsWhat to look for when gallery nights, openings, and fundraisers share a calendar with your class schedule.
Read guide →RentalsPutting studios, classrooms, and gallery space on one calendar that renters can check and book themselves.
Read guide →MembershipReal tier names for artist, supporter, studio-access, and corporate levels, taken from organizations already running them.
Read guide →MembershipHow to stop artist and supporter memberships lapsing without someone chasing every renewal by email.
Read guide →DonationsIssuing compliant receipts the moment a donor gives, instead of assembling them by hand every January.
Read guide →Software that manages memberships, class and workshop registration, artist submissions, camps, facility rentals, and donations for arts organizations in one connected system, instead of a separate tool for each.
Yes. An 8-week course takes one registration and one payment, and every participant gets automatic reminders before each session. You can also run weekly drop-in classes where each date is registered separately. Both live on the same calendar. See program and event registration for how registrations, waitlists, and reminders work.
Yes. Communal publishes a shareable calendar of your classes, camps, and events that embeds directly into your existing site. It updates itself whenever you add or change a program, so the calendar on your website is never out of date with the one your staff works from.
Yes. Every registrant receives an automatic reminder before each session, including every session of a multi-week course. This is what keeps attendance from dropping off partway through an 8-week class, and it removes the manual reminder emails most arts organizations send by hand today.
Artists apply online and upload images of their work. You set the custom questions, review each application, and approve or decline from inside Communal. The same workflow handles market and vendor applications, including booth needs and what each vendor is selling.
Yes. Pricing and eligibility are tied to membership status, so member rates apply automatically at checkout and member-only programs stay member-only. No manual checking.
Yes. Run as many camp types as you need, by age group, by discipline, by week, with waivers, custom intake questions, and registration windows that open and close on their own.
Yes. Every space gets its own real-time booking calendar. Renters see availability, complete your custom booking form, sign the rental agreement, and pay online before the booking is confirmed. See facility rental software for agreements, deposits, and approval rules.
Yes. Members and the public can book desks or studio stations by the hour or day to work on their art and projects. You can set special member rates, or restrict the space to members only. It runs on the same calendar as the rest of your spaces.
Yes, and it's free. Most arts organizations come to us from exactly that stack. We handle the migration and you're typically live in under 24 hours.
Yes, issued automatically the moment a donation is made. CRA-compliant for Canadian charities, IRS-compliant for US nonprofits. No year-end scramble.
Yes. Message all members, all registrants for a specific program, or any segment you build.
No. Communal runs both on one member database, so a member's class registrations, rentals, and donations all live on the same record. Most arts organizations arrive using a membership tool alongside Eventbrite or Google Forms and a spreadsheet to reconcile them. That reconciliation work is what disappears.
Yes. Studios where membership means access to equipment and studio time are a core use case. Set membership tiers that unlock studio hours, sell class and workshop registrations, and let members book kiln time, presses, or bench space on the same calendar.
A donor CRM tracks giving. Arts organizations need giving plus class registration, camp waivers, artist submissions, studio bookings, and memberships that gate exhibition eligibility. Communal includes donor management and automatic tax receipts, but it's built around the whole operation rather than fundraising alone.
Communal starts at $75/month, or $140/month with facility bookings for your studios, classrooms, and event spaces. Class and camp registration is the Programs & Events module, +$50/month. You only pay for the modules you use. See pricing, or book a demo and we will price your exact setup. No contracts, cancel anytime, and migration is free.
Community associations, rec centers, and member-based nonprofits across North America moved to Communal when their spreadsheet, booking calendar, and payment system stopped keeping up.
“Everything! Our staff and volunteers find it very easy to use, saving valuable time on the backend. Since partnering with Communal, the KGCA has experienced a boost in rentals, memberships, and program registrations.”
“It was easy to migrate from our antiquated, and expensive system over to Communal's modern and easy to navigate platform.”
“This software is a very cost effective way to stay in touch with your members as well as managing all our programs, events and facility rentals!”
How the hall gets booked, how program pricing works, how you chase renewals. No canned tour. We walk Communal through your real process so you can see the fit before you decide.
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