Exhibitors

Cordovan Art School Where creativity becomes a business worth building.

Since 2009, Cordovan Art School has been redefining what art education looks like — for the students who walk through our doors, and for the entrepreneurs who run our studios. What began as a single Texas studio rooted in a simple belief — that creativity is a skill every person deserves to develop — has grown into a 12-location network across Houston and Austin, serving thousands of students every year.

Our mission runs on two tracks: to ignite a lifelong love of art in every student, and to empower passionate franchisees to build meaningful, profitable, community-anchored businesses of their own.

A Model Built on Two Engines

Cordovan studios run on a dual-revenue framework engineered to smooth seasonality and maximize unit economics. Year-round classes in drawing, painting, pottery and PYOP create a steady, recurring revenue base. Seasonal camps — which generate the majority of network-wide revenue — deliver the high-volume earnings that turn good years into great ones. The result is a business that performs across the calendar, not just during peak windows.

Operations You Can Actually Run On

Behind every Cordovan studio sits an operational playbook refined over 17 years and continuously sharpened by data from a dozen live locations. Franchisees inherit standardized SOPs spanning enrollment, hiring, instruction, and customer experience; weekly performance reporting and cross-location benchmarking; structured hiring frameworks for managers and instructors; rigorous P&L tracking at the unit level; and marketing playbooks pressure-tested across three major Texas metros. This isn't theory pulled from a binder — it's the same infrastructure powering our top-performing studios today.

A Brand on the Move

Cordovan is actively expanding beyond Texas, with franchise opportunities now opening across the Midwest and select high-growth metros nationwide. Our market criteria are disciplined, our support is hands-on, and our model has been validated across studios large and small, urban and suburban, new and mature.

Why Cordovan?

Because art education is resilient and growing. Because parents are increasingly seeking enrichment that builds confidence, focus, and creative thinking — qualities no screen can teach. And because today's franchise buyers are looking for what's genuinely rare: a brand with real years behind it, real systems inside it, and real numbers to back it up.

We bring the brand, the systems, and the support. You bring the drive to lead a business that genuinely changes lives in your community.

Let's build something extraordinary together.