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A given artist may keep her art and her politics separate. Another artist may want to connect the two up. Here are ten ways an artist with progressive political ideals might express those ideals through her art, ranging from explicit political advocacy to subtle...

10 Tips for Maintaining Creativity in the Age of AI [Don’t miss the early bird price on the new Human Experience Specialist Certification course. Becoming an HES may do a beautiful job of supplementing and complementing your art income.] Think before you prompt. Give...

From Artist to Human Experience Specialist Artists are students of human nature. Whether they are writers, painters, musicians, actors, dancers, or filmmakers, they spend their lives exploring what it means to be human. They investigate longing, loss, love, ambition,...

Tomorrow starts a new day in helping. The Human Experience Specialist Certification Course opens its doors. Let me remind you why this might seriously interest you. As in the Sufi tale of the Blind Men and the Elephant, each current helping profession takes one aspect...

Could you use a nice revenue stream to supplement your art income? We’re launching a wonderful Human Experience Specialist Certification Course that comes with an affiliate option. Just become an affiliate, announce the program, and make free money. The program you’d...

Being an artist is not simply a matter of making art. It is a way of organizing a life around something uncertain, demanding, deeply personal, and often poorly supported by the surrounding culture. An artist must create while doubting, persist without guarantees,...

Given that it was never easy to be an artist or to succeed as an artist, and given that AI and world circumstances are not going to make that any easier, what is an artist to do? I think the answer begins by giving up two comforting ideas: that the world will...

What are your most urgent concerns as an artist? Drop me a line to ericmaisel@hotmail.com and let me know and I'll share them in the coming weeks. Just let me know if you do or don't want your name used.

10 Reasons an Artist Might Want to Become a Human Experience Specialist. Learn more about the Human Experience Specialist Certification Course here. You already study the human experience. Artists are observers of longing, conflict, identity, love, loss, ambition,...

Here are ten tips that emphasize products that are inexpensive to produce, easy to understand, and genuinely connected your work as an artist Start with what people already respond to. Don’t invent a product in a vacuum. Notice which paintings, images, characters,...