How to Manage Your Time, Part 1

by | Dec 2, 2016 | Fine Arts America

This week and next I want to share ten tips for managing your time contributed by Tamara Holland. Tamara is a post-conviction attorney for condemned prisoners in California, a visual artist, a screenwriter, and a mystery writer who lives in California and Croatia....

Giving Away Your Marketplace Freedom

by | Nov 25, 2016 | Fine Arts America

The following are ten ways that creative and performing artists give away their freedom with respect to the art marketplace and with respect to their career. 1. By hiding out. We are free to show up places, learn from people, see what’s going on – but out of anxiety...

Handling ‘Creative Disasters’

by | Nov 18, 2016 | Fine Arts America

HANDLING ‘CREATIVE DISASTERS’ The creative process comes with its share of mistakes, messes, failures, and other “disasters.” How you handle them determines whether you will give up or persevere. Here are ten tips that will help! 1. Mind your language Is it really...

Dealing With Day Jobs

by | Nov 11, 2016 | Fine Arts America

A day job is a job whose primary meaning—or only meaning—is that it allows you to survive while you work on your art and your art career. Some day jobs are satisfying in their own right, some are completely unsatisfying, some are more like second careers with their...

Organizing for Artists

by | Nov 4, 2016 | Fine Arts America

Almost everybody feels the need to get better organized. But what does “better organization” really mean? Is it about having a good filing system and multiple to-do lists or is it about more than that? Let’s take a look. 1. Organizing for the long-term Each day...

When Your Mate Brings Home the Bacon, Part 2

by | Oct 28, 2016 | Fine Arts America

Last week I provided three tips that you might use when, as a working artist, you find yourself bringing in far less money than your mate does. Here are three more! 4. Explain that you don’t want to feel—or be made to feel—one-down, inferior, or dependent because of...