Art Business, Artist Help & Tips, Artist Success, FAQ
As such you can never find a simple formula to building confidence in your artwork. You can be aware of being too careful in your approach. Watch how you draw, watch how you apply paint, watch how you choose whatever material it is that you’re working with and how you then go about working with those materials.
Art Business, Artist Help & Tips, Artist Success, FAQ
In this post, I’m addressing the (lack of) issue that many artists and aspiring artists have about self-confidence. For without a certain amount of self-confidence you won’t have the required ability to put your self out by marketing your art.
Art Marketing, Artist Help & Tips, Artist Success, FAQ
If you have never written out a marketing plan, the task most likely sounds daunting. A sound marketing plan however, is a great way to increase the success of your business and helps you to make informed decisions around purchases, networking, events, and promotions throughout the year.
Art Business, Artist Help & Tips, Artist Success, FAQ
You’ve run the numbers, and hopefully removed any lingering fog around your money. Now it’s time to decide if you’re making enough of it. If you think your bank account could use a boost, set aside a few hours to ask yourself some serious questions.
Art Business, Artist Help & Tips, Artist Success, FAQ
Part I: Funding your practice.
Supporting your practice can produce emotional fits. Money is a delicate subject no matter what field you are in.
Art Marketing, Artist Help & Tips, FAQ, Selling Your Art
If you’re organising your own show (in an alternative space, rental gallery, student gallery, etc.), then you’ll probably be on your own to design and print your postcards. They are great for advertising shows, but also to put into your promotional material that you send to galleries. To create an effective postcard, start with a great photograph of your work.
Art Business, Artist Help & Tips, Artist Success, FAQ
What do I need to know about contracts?
Legal issues will arise during your career. You might face disputes with curators who may have agreed to cover expenses for an installation but who later remembers that conversation differently.
Art Business, Artist Help & Tips, Artist Success, FAQ
Your creative work is immediately copyrighted the moment you make it. Any author of an original work owns the copyright to that work. Only you have the right to derive works, such as prints, from your own work. This right remains with you even after your work is sold. The new owner has bought your work but not its copyright, unless you have transferred it via contract.
Art Marketing, Artist Help & Tips, Artist Success, FAQ
1. Ask yourself what your goals are before you go to an event. This will help you pick groups that best suit you. Some meetings are based more on learning, making contacts and/or volunteering, rather than on strictly making business connections.
Art Business, Art Marketing, Artist Help & Tips, FAQ
The web has been known for issues of infringement related to images on social networking sites, the most common example of which is the use of images taken from these sites in advertisements, without permission.
Art Business, Artist Help & Tips, Artist Success, FAQ, Selling Your Art
In order to show at notable gallery you and your art have to be a total match. The quality of your art is only one step in the process. There’s also your resume, your reputation, your profile and standing in the art community, how you are to work with, your previous sales history, the quality of critical reviews of your past shows and much more.
Art Business, Art Marketing, Artist Help & Tips, Artist Success, FAQ, Selling Your Art
I just graduated from art school. How do I break into galleries?
As I any profession, you have to begin at the beginning, and in the art world that means showing your art pretty much anywhere anyone will have you.
Art Business, Art Marketing, Artist Help & Tips, Artist Success, FAQ, Selling Your Art
1. Subscribe to your target publication and read it. You might be up to something that relates to a series they are doing. You need to be able to speak knowledgeably about the publication, their style and their readership.
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Your website is your most important outreach tool to market your art. It should be a place where you can send clients, potential clients, and reporters to get exciting images of and information about you and your work.
Art Business, Art Marketing, Art Marketing Test, Artist Help & Tips, Artist Success, FAQ
Your website is your most important outreach tool to market your art. It should be a place where you can send clients, potential clients, and reporters to get exciting images of and information about you and your work.
Art Business, Art Marketing, Artist Help & Tips, Artist Success, FAQ, Selling Your Art
The key to successful grant proposals is preparation. As an artist help it is good to know you are likely to find preliminary grant proposal writing steps to be the most time consuming as well as the most vital step of the process.
Art Business, Artist Help & Tips, Artist Success, FAQ, Selling Your Art
As with self-promotion, fundraising can take you out of the safety of your studio and into competitive situations that won’t feel comfortable at first. It’s important to not let fear and insecurity show itself in your grant application.
Art Business, Artist Help & Tips, Artist Success, FAQ, Selling Your Art
The obvious answer is art supplies, studio rent, office supplies, photography, promotion, professional memberships, equipment and software. Keep all your
Art Business, Artist Help & Tips, Artist Success, FAQ
When you sit down to write or revise your artist statement, it’s firstly important to understand the objective of the exercise. People who read it may include gallery directors, potential clients and journalists. Your goal is to give them some frameworks around your work with which they can better view and understand it.
Art Business, Art Marketing, Artist Help & Tips, Artist Success, FAQ
Your website can, and should be your best ally. As an artist help, what constitutes good copy is not only text that reads well and does a great job relaying the key messages of your work, but text that drives visitors to your site in the first place.
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