Books and recordings are ideal if you prefer to learn at your own time and pace in the comfort of your studio. Artist Career Training Art Business workbooks and recordings present clear, practical information on art marketing, art business systems and art career management for fine artists.
FREE: Eleven Tips for Success for Fine Artists
The Art Network
Creating Your Professional Portfolio
Exposure = Success!
A Gallery Without Walls
Giclées: Tiny Dots on Paper
The Ins and Outs of Juried Shows
Mastering Color - 3-DVD Instruction Series
Profiles of Success: Artists Who Sell Without "Selling Out"
The Publicity Hound
Sell My Art! Finding and Keeping Effective Representation
Writing the Artist Statement: Revealing the True Spirit of Your Work
The Art Opportunities Book
FREE: Eleven Tips for Success for Fine Artists
Digital Recording and 15-Page PDF Presentation.
You may be a hobbyist who wants to make art a second career. Perhaps you are already apart-time or full-time emerging artist. Maybe you are in mid-career and want to refresh your business. Success is possible for you. And you can do it at your own pace.
These tips are a good overview of what it takes to be a working artist. And there is a lot of practical wisdom here you can use right away.
The Art Network*
Success requires planning plus action. ArtNetwork* has been helping artists empower themselves since 1986 through its books and mailing lists.
Creating Your Professional Portfolio
Workbook/Digital Recording from Artist Career Training: In order to present your work to arts professionals, you need a professional introduction. Learn how to create and assemble the material to put together your own professional presentation portfolio in a manner that has been acclaimed by gallery dealers and arts writers. Follow step-by-step instructions and examples. This package is a must for artists who want their support material to stand above the rest!
Exposure=Success
e-Book by Aletta de Wal, Artist Advisor of Artist Career Training: This 11 page e-book and recording gives fine artists a simple path to getting noticed. Includes the timeless factors that will one day make you an “overnight” success. The end result is that you know how to get exposure, build a loyal following and do your art marketing one step at a time. Based on working with emerging. mid-career and established artists since 1996.
A Gallery Without Walls
Book by Margaret Danielak: “A Gallery without Walls” guides artists to select and reserve the best space to exhibit and instructions on how to produce a low-cost art event. Margaret Danielak gives you easy-to-follow recommendations on how to evaluate your art, prepare your work for sale, and promote your events on a limited budget.
Giclées: Tiny Dots on Paper
How do you make more profit from each original you create? How do you make more money if you can’t make more work? How do you offer a wider range of your art to collectors who don’t have the budget for your originals?
One answer to these questions is to make fine art reproductions. You can leverage your talents and your budget, and still sell originals. That’s like having your cake and eating it too.
The Ins and Outs of Juried Shows
Digital recording with Aletta de Wal and Pat Fiorello: Avoid wasting time, money and energy entering juried shows that are just not right for you! Learn how the jurying process works from someone who's been on both sides of the fence- entering and running juried shows. Pat Fiorello gives you ways to assess and approach shows to get the results you want.
Mastering Color - 3-DVD Art Instruction Series*
By Donna Aldridge: This DVD Series will help you create stronger, more satisfying and successful paintings. Running Time approximately 1 Hour Each. Extensive Menus and Chapters. For Oil, Watercolor, Pastel, Acrylic, Printmaking, and Digital.
Profiles of Success:
Artist Who Sell Without "Selling Out"
From Artist Career Training, digital recording: Many artists believe that selling fine art is “selling out.” Not true! There is no shame in earning income from your talents. Fine artists have been compensated for making art for centuries. You can market your art for profit with integrity. All you need to sell out is your art. Eavesdrop on interviews with established artists who can tell you how.
The Publicity Hound*
CD or digital recording - Joan Stewart, The Publicity Hound®, has tips, tricks and valuable educational tools. She's a great resource. Fine artists who want to squeeze their pennies can get thousands of dollars in free publicity by following the tips, tricks and tools, courtesy of Joan Stewart, The Publicity Hound®.
Sell My Art!
Finding & Keeping Effective Representation
Digital recording: Join A.C.T. Art Business Mentor, Margaret Danielak, art rep and author of A Gallery without Walls: Selling Art in Alternative Venues for a riveting TeleClass on finding and keeping effective representation. Margaret will reveal that she as an art representative can do a lot for you.
Writing the Artist Statement:
Revealing the True Spirit of Your Work
Book by Arianne Goodwin Ed.D. Chapters are short and snappy. No filler here. And everything is developmentally designed to take you step-by-step through why, how, where, and when you need that statement.
The Art Opportunities Book
Avoid scams, earn money and increase your chances of success in juried shows.
by Benny Shaboy You will learn how to spot -- or even create -- over $7 Million dollars of opportunities and how to best prepare for them. You will learn what jurors are looking for, how to take slides that will mean the difference between failure and success, how to avoid the mistakes that completely ruin your chances and how to spot the scams that cost artists millions of dollars every year.
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