The Artist’s Guide
How to Make a Living Doing What You Love
June 2009
Trade Paperback · 400 Pages
$17.95 U.S. · $22.50 CAN · €12.99 E.U.
ISBN 9780306816529
Da Capo Press
Trade Paperback · 400 Pages
$17.95 U.S. · $22.50 CAN · €12.99 E.U.
ISBN 9780306816529
Da Capo Press
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Description
Finally, a comprehensive guide for visual art students that imparts the practical knowledge they need to bridge the gap between traditional art classes and the challenges they encounter after graduation.
Through real-life examples, illustrations, step-by-step exercises, The Artist’s Guide offers strategies for self-management, promotion, grant writing, portfolio development, and much more.
• Self promote and present your work in the digital age
• Broaden your funding sources through grants, awards, and artist residencies
• Explore the range of exhibition, sales, and project-based opportunities
• Build a network of long-term professional relationships to sustain a productive role in the art community
• Be inspired by valuable quotes from dozens of art world professionals.
It is an indispensible text for your undergraduate and graduate thesis seminars and professional development courses.
A few hours with this beautifully organized book and no artist can claim to be mystified by areas of common concern like grant writing, taxes, copyright protection, visual documentation, gallery practices, artists’ statements …and the list goes on. Her seminars and classes are universally acclaimed and now, with this book, artists can access Battenfield’s expertise directly. —Gregory Amenoff, Painter, Chair, Visual Arts Division, Columbia University
Jackie Battenfield is an artist who has supported herself from a studio practice for over twenty years. The recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Award, her work appears in galleries throughout the United States. She has had experience in numerous areas of the art world including nonprofit gallery director and curator. Battenfield developed the curriculum and teaches professional practices in the MFA program at Columbia University, School of the Arts and for the Creative Capital Foundation.
Through real-life examples, illustrations, step-by-step exercises, The Artist’s Guide offers strategies for self-management, promotion, grant writing, portfolio development, and much more.
• Self promote and present your work in the digital age
• Broaden your funding sources through grants, awards, and artist residencies
• Explore the range of exhibition, sales, and project-based opportunities
• Build a network of long-term professional relationships to sustain a productive role in the art community
• Be inspired by valuable quotes from dozens of art world professionals.
It is an indispensible text for your undergraduate and graduate thesis seminars and professional development courses.
A few hours with this beautifully organized book and no artist can claim to be mystified by areas of common concern like grant writing, taxes, copyright protection, visual documentation, gallery practices, artists’ statements …and the list goes on. Her seminars and classes are universally acclaimed and now, with this book, artists can access Battenfield’s expertise directly. —Gregory Amenoff, Painter, Chair, Visual Arts Division, Columbia University
Jackie Battenfield is an artist who has supported herself from a studio practice for over twenty years. The recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Award, her work appears in galleries throughout the United States. She has had experience in numerous areas of the art world including nonprofit gallery director and curator. Battenfield developed the curriculum and teaches professional practices in the MFA program at Columbia University, School of the Arts and for the Creative Capital Foundation.
About the Author
Jackie Battenfield's work is represented in over a thousand collections worldwide. She teaches a course in professional development in the visual arts at Columbia University.