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If you happen to be an existential nomad, I want your story! Many artists are! I’m gathering real-life stories for a new book exploring an increasingly common human experience: the life of the existential nomad. An existential nomad is not someone who travels the...

The Emotional Labor of Creative Life [Get your free subscription to the International Association of Creative and Performing Artists newsletter here.] Creative work is often imagined as a kind of effortless inspiration: the artist in a sunlit studio, brush in hand;...

If Artists Had a Strong Collective Voice, What Could Change? [Get your free subscription to the International Association of Creative and Performing Artists newsletter here.] Imagine a world where artists spoke with one clear, resonant voice—not to erase their...

Belonging Without Conformity [Get your free subscription to the International Association of Creative and Performing Artists newsletter here.] For many artists, the longing to belong is inseparable from the longing to create. Across continents, cultures, and...

The Quiet Crisis Facing Emerging and Mid-Career Artists  [Get your free subscription to the International Association of Creative and Performing Artists newsletter here.]  In the soft glow of her studio, Elaine adjusts the stretchers on a canvas that has sat...

[Get your free subscription to the International Association of Creative and Performing Artists newsletter here.] A worldwide community of artists would not be defined by geography so much as by shared intention. It would be less like a single organization with a...

Subscribe to the free newsletter of the International Association of Creative and Performing Artists. Subscribe here. ** Across Disciplines, the Same Struggles At first glance, a poet, a violinist, a ceramicist, and a theater director seem to inhabit entirely...

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If Galleries Vanish [Subscribe to the International Association of Creative and Performing Artists free newsletter NOW and get your free gifts!] Art galleries—as we’ve known them since the rise of the modern art market in places like Paris and New York City—have long...

The Hidden Loneliness of the Creative Life The Many Roads That Lead to Isolation and Sadness Loneliness is one of the least acknowledged realities of the creative life—and one of the most damaging. From the outside, artists often appear surrounded: by audiences,...