Have you dreamed of creating a better future for yourself as an artist? Well now you can. Artist, educator, and career coach Rhonda Schaller provides insights and practical tools for readers to cultivate an inspired, sustainable art career. Both the established artist and the emerging creative will learn how to visualize a better future, empower their creativity, and build a career plan for artistic success. This fun-to-read self-help guide will change the way you think and validate the way you feel. Schaller gives artists many ways to solve career problems and plan the next steps, providing more than 50 unique career planning exercises and tools including creative visualization, self-assessment, and mind-map exploration. Based on her popular Creative Mind, Business Mind: Use of Creative Visualization in Career Planning course at the School of Visual Arts, chapters include Your Personal Vision, What Would You Do If You Couldn’t Fail, Visualizing Great Business Relationships, Artist as Entrepreneur: Attracting Funding, and Take Charge of Your Life. Required reading for every working artist who wants to have a creative career, this book will facilitate brainstorming and self-understanding for every career stage, and show artists how to apply their values and desires to become more successful.

Art Seen is the new publication from The Curator's Salon, bringing together over 50 contemporary artists from around the world to talk about their work, influences, purpose and everything else. This debut edition of Art Seen, The Curator's Salon Magazine, showcases some of the most talented contemporary artists to know right now, from painters, sculptors, and printmakers to collage artists working today. This publication presents: Conversations between artists and curators Stories behind the artworks and the artists practice including bold and stunning visuals The way different cultures and life experiences influence an artist's style and technique Studio spaces in their most natural form Inside the publication you will discover artists from around the world, working across a number of disciplines, and learn about contemporary art and artists. Art Seen is curated and edited by award winning art dealer, and independent curator, Gita Joshi. Scroll up and click the Buy Now button to get your copy of this debut edition of Art Seen

"A book about the art business and how to prepare for success as a fine artist. de Wal offers practical advice on how to make the most of limited time, energy and resources to land that perfect day job--as an artist!"--Back cover.

Do you dream of being a full-time artist? This friendly, practical guide shows you how to make your dream a reality, with expert advice on everything from writing a business plan to pricing your work and raising your profile as an artist. Learn how to start taking commissions and ensure your long-term success. Chapter 1: How to Decide what you want This chapter helps you to identify what you are trying to achieve with an art career and how to face your fears. Chapter 2: Is this right for you? This chapter identifies the qualities needed to start your own art business and helps you identify if you have what it takes. Chapter 3: Planning your business This chapter helps you plan your business goals and missions and lays out exactly what branding is and how you can brand your business. Chapter 4: Customer Interaction This important chapter helps you to identify your target customer and tells you how to interact with them at each stage of the commission process. It also helps you deal with difficult customers and how to take payments for your commissions. Chapter 5: Your Website This chapter identifies why you need a website and the best website builders to use to build your own. It also covers what pages to include and how-to layout your website for optimum customer interaction. Chapter 6: Social Media This chapter identifies the importance of social media and exactly how to set up your social media accounts, what to include in your bio etc, how to write engaging posts and how to grow your account. Chapter 7: PR Strategy This chapter explains what PR is and why it is so important for gaining awareness of your business and making sales. It also includes how make a plan, generate ideas and the various writing formats you need to know. Chapter 8: Finances The most important chapter to help you organise your finances and cashflow. It also includes to formulas that you can use to prices your work and how to invest in your business. Chapter 9: Getting Organised This chapter shows you how to plan your commissions and manage your time effectively. Chapter 10: Developing your career This chapter will help you take your business to the next level and identifies how to develop your artistic skills. Bonus Materials By buying this book you will gain access to our Private Facebook community where you can ask questions and share experiences with other artists trying to make art the career. Included in with this eBook are 6 downloadable templates to help you with your business including: Social Media Checklist Press Release template PR strategy Template Email Pitch Template Commission Schedule & Expenses Spreadsheet Brand Guidelines Document

This has to be the premier manual for skilled creators wanting to retail their own artwork and earn an excellent living while doing it. However, it also has lots of pertaining advice that would benefit practically any niche in today's tech-heavy online world. The author suggests opening discreetly and personably instead of aiming to sound highly intellectual in your public communication and marketing materials. In return, your esteemed audience will resonate much better over the long haul and self-identify with you. She carefully details why your own website is so important and how to set it up easily for the long term.How to write your first blog posts and keep its content lively and engaging. What exactly a mailing list does and how to go about setting one up and properly organized to manage your waiting customers. Specifically you will discover in this book about your art career: The single platform you need to explore to get your art seen by the right audience (hint: it's NOT an art gallery); The detailed bit-by-bit breakdown on how to improve your online visibility; The biggest obstacle early career artists face in exhibiting their work; The online platform most artists miss when building their audience and making their work visible; The quickest way to have an exhibition or get your work into a show; The skill most artists lack but ultimately need to grow an infinite audience; And the one thing you need to have laser focus on when building a list of appreciative art collectors. Follow these practical steps to create an art life without a gallery and build a life of success with your art. This workable guide works to paint your own profitable path to success in the modern art world and sell your art even if you're just starting out. Are you ready to write about your art and build your art career without a gallery?

This indispensable guide gives anyone with studio art training the vital tools and breadth of information they need to develop and succeed in the fine and applied arts. It covers the full spectrum of career options available to artists today-from being an independent artist to niches in the corporate world, and from jobs that require special artistic skills to those calling for artistic improvisation.

You will want this book if you are a creative person researching possible careers in art, an art teacher looking for ways to help your students connect their art learning to art careers, a substitute teacher looking for fun lessons to have "in your back pocket," or a home-school parent looking for new ways to encourage your son or daughter in art. It is a great resource for anyone looking for a user-friendly guide to different art careers. The 60+ activities in Exploring Careers in Art are especially well suited for students in grades 4-10. The book also contains a short guide to selecting an art career that suits you based on your personality traits. Exploring Careers in Art was written by National Board Certified Art Educator Tracy Fortune.