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Art, Inc.: The Essential Guide for Building Your Career as an Artist
Written by Lisa Congdon and Jonathan Field
Narrated by Lisa Congdon
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You don't have to starve to be an artist. Build a career doing what you love. In this practical guide, professional artist Lisa Congdon reveals the many ways you can earn a living by making art—through illustration, licensing, fine art sales, print sales, teaching, and beyond. Including industry advice from such successful art-world pros as Nikki McClure, Mark Hearld, Paula Scher, and more, Art, Inc. will equip you with the tools—and the confidence—to turn your passion into a profitable business.
Learn how to: set actionable goals, diversify your income, manage your bookkeeping, copyright your work, promote with social media, build a standout website, exhibit with galleries, sell and price your work, license your art, acquire an agent, and much more.
Learn how to: set actionable goals, diversify your income, manage your bookkeeping, copyright your work, promote with social media, build a standout website, exhibit with galleries, sell and price your work, license your art, acquire an agent, and much more.
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Lisa Congdon
Lisa Congdon is a Portland, Oregon–based artist and author.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5nonfiction (2018). If you're serious about learning the business side of being a successful artist, this is worth checking out. It might not include everything you want to know, but it'll give you a good sense of the steps you might need to take, and which things you'll want to learn more about. Includes brief interviews with people representing various roles in the art industry.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I am a third of the way through and it is probably the best book on helping you get started in bringing your creations to the world.....that I have read thus far.
I will add comment after I finish but you know that feeling when you not only absorb an authors words but the layout, the colors, even the shapes make you feel like the author is speaking ONLY to you?
That is what I am feeling.
More soon.