Tips For Meeting Art Deadlines

Do you have an art deadline coming up? Here are some tips from artists and writers about how they meet their deadlines—and how you can meet yours! Jerry, a portrait painter, explained: “The thing that works best for me is to have a written calendar that I can look at...

Do Artists Run a Greater Risk of Addiction?

Are artists at greater risk for addiction? Indeed they are! Learn more here. The short story “The Bound Man,” by the German author Ilse Aichinger, is a beautiful piece in the existential tradition. It goes as follows. A man awakens one morning to find himself...

Your Artist Support Group

Even though artists need their solitude and tend to think of themselves as introverts, they also crave the community of other artists, want interactions with like-minded souls, and need a “place to go” that functions as a cross between a salon and a support group. Yet...

Turning Tourists Into Art Customers

Maybe you live in a place that a lot of tourists visit. What can you do to make a better connection with them and turn them into your art customers? Here are some ideas! Artists know better than anyone that places hold meaning. That’s why they hunger for Paris,...

Your Marketing Assistant

Do you need a marketing assistant to help promote and market your work? Here are some things to think about before you go down that road! With respect to selling art there is a sense in which the work speaks for itself and there is also a sense in which it is a...