There’s approximately 40,000 art students starting college to become an MFA (Master of Fine Arts) each year. Around the 1980’s that figure was about 20,000. If we take an average of 30,000 artists graduating every year for the last 50 years, we would have had 1.5 million productive artists, but we don’t. Instead, there’s many… Read More Why Don’t Art Schools Teach You How To Market Art?
Creating is the best thing that you do, however, if you do not understand business you may not make it in the field of The Arts. Instead you will be working a job in some other field with the dream unfulfilled of making it in the field that you are the best in. As an… Read More What Does Business Have To Do With Your Art Career?
An artist today has more opportunities than ever before in history. You can reach the entire world via the internet, you can create a local following via real life. You have tools at your fingertips that allow you to sell your works of art, work faster and reach farther. You put your art, music, books… Read More 5 Tips for Promoting for an Artist in Business
Some time back I joined a writers group and started a very heated discussion regarding critiques. {Actually a person wrote a poem asking not to be critiqued and received some very uncalled for ruthless remarks – I stood up for the poet telling others to knock it off and that it wasn’t right in the… Read More Passion, A Good Foundation & a Good Mentor
Do these names ring a bell: Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci, Michalangelo, Matisse, Rembrant and Monet. Then there’s Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi and some newer ones such as the Beetles, Evis Presley and many more that can be rattled off. Why isn’t YOUR name being rattled off like that? Why aren’t you… Read More Do These Names Ring A Bell…?