Creative Biz & Career

Three words that can revolutionize artist newsletters: Focus! Focus! Focus! The mission of your newsletter should be to engage people and to forge a stronger connection between readers and your art. There are at least 5 reasons why many artists' newsletters stink. I give you an example of how to improve yours by focusing on a single artwork.

How to overcome communication challenges and masking in order to create a genuine and appealing brand as a neurodivergent ADHD and/or autistic professional.

In London, studio size has halved since 2020, and across the UK artists are campaigning for affordable space. What happens when a country’s creative resources all suddenly disappear?

I began emailing essays into the void on 30 May 2021, 53 days before Rebecka, our youngest daughter was born. This writing experiment has followed roughly the same trajectory as the baby. In 2021, Escaping Flatland's prime achievement was putting a few toys in its mouth (a handful of essays read by about fifty people). But then, around the time Rebecka got up on her legs and learned to talk, I found a voice and picked up pace.

In Houston, Assembly is founded on a holistic approach to gallery spaces, helping artists connect with collectors and funders.

Excerpted from the "Now Hear This" training DVD, this low resolution file goes back a few yeards, but it does demonstrate the technique well. Please excuse t...

Discover the 14 techniques for a conversational or casual writing style, and see how others apply these techniques to engage their readers.

Arts & Numbers is a comprehensive financial guide for creative individuals… and anyone else with a passion for something other than accounting and finance. A basic understanding of finance is essential to ensuring your career lasts for as long as you want it t

A group show at the Blanton Museum of Art breaks the taboo on artists discussing, and drawing on, their day jobs. Yet this stigma still exists.

Have you been rethinking the way you work, your values or your place in the world? Before you plunge headlong into your next big thing, podcast host and author Manoush Zomorodi suggests trying this…

Download free mockups! Mockups Design is a site where you can find free premium mockups that can be used in your private and commercial work.

It takes money to start a business. Money can come in the form of a loan, a credit card, a savings account, or even pre-orders. Or, time and sweat equity become a proxy for money until there’s enough cold hard cash to invest in growth. It also takes money to grow a business. A business […]

How to find your people by being super specific and enthusiastic with your writing.

Creating beautiful blog post illustrations can be time consuming. Sometimes, creating the perfect feature image for a post takes just as much time as writing it. In my search for the perfect solution – blog post images that are both visually appealing and easy to make – I tested many different techniques, and in this post I share some of my tips with you.

About this toolkit Even before Covid 19, creatives were 3 times more likely to develop a mental health condition than the average UK adult. As Covid hit, and the pandemic started to impact the lives and livelihoods of creatives beyond recognition, we all needed our wits about us more than ever, yet many of us... Read more »

Videos on the business of being an artists.

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Supporting visual artists at all stages of their careers through free access to information, opportunities, and resources. Research into artists’ livelihoods.

Professional development for artists: finances, strategic planning, time management. Philadelphia, Baltimore, and South Carolina.