The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You LoveA comprehensive guide for both emerging and mid-career artists to pursue a career in the visual arts. Providing real-life examples, illustrations, and step-by-step exercises, Battenfield offers readily applicable advice on all aspects of the job. Along with tips on planning and assessment, she presents strategies for self-management, including marketing, online promotion, building professional relationships, grant writing, and portfolio development. Each chapter ends with an insightful "Reality Check" interview, featuring advice and useful information from high-profile artists and professionals. The result is an inspiring, experiential guide brimming with field-tested techniques that readers can easily apply to their own career. |
Contents
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two How to Assemble the Essential Tools to Support Your Work 24 | 24 |
Section Two Circulating Your Work | 71 |
Peer Networking Readiness and Creating Your Own Opportunities 73 | 73 |
Researching and Exhibiting in Nonprofit Spaces 95 | 95 |
five How to Build LongTerm Professional Relationships 123 | 123 |
Section Three Supporting Your Work | 157 |
Contracts Legal Issues and the Art of Negotiation 241 | 241 |
Section Four Maintaining Your Practice | 281 |
nine How to Structure Your DaytoDay Operations 283 | 283 |
ten How to Build Community to Survive Being Alone 311 | 311 |
Epilogue 341 | 341 |
Acknowledgments 347 | 347 |
Biographies 349 | 349 |
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The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love Jackie Battenfield Limited preview - 2009 |
The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love Jackie Battenfield Limited preview - 2009 |
The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love Jackie Battenfield No preview available - 2009 |
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