Recommended Readings


How to Photograph Paintings, Nat Bukar

100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever, Steve Chandler

Helps you create an action plan for living your vision in business and in life. It features 100 proven methods to positively change the way you think and act. 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself will help you break through the negative barriers and banish the pessimistic thoughts that are preventing you from fulfilling your lifelong goals and dreams. Whether you're self-employed, a manager, or a high-level executive, it's still easy to get stuck in the daily routines of life, fantasizing about what could have been. Chandler helps you turn that way of thinking around and make what could have been into what can and will be.

187 Tips for Artists: How to Create a Successful Art Career - and Have Fun in the Process!, Kathy Gulrich

Award-winning artist and art coach Gulrich shares some of her most insightful, and helpful, artist tips. You'll learn how to:

Art & Fear, David Bayles & Ted Orland

An artist's survival guide written by and for working artists. The authors explore the way art gets made, the reasons it doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way.

Taking the Leap: Building a Career As a Visual Artist, Cay Lang

Based on artist and teacher Lang's popular seminars, it teaches artists how to succeed in today's complex and competitive art world. Offers inside information on how to show at galleries, nonprofit spaces and museums, as well as a host of nontraditional venues. This behind-the-scenes look at the art world reveals how decisions are made and what artists can expect and how they can create their own art scene on their own terms.

The Business of Being an Artist, Daniel Grant

Thoroughly updated and expanded, this classic handbook teaches emerging artists all the strategies they need to know for selling artwork on their own or through dealers. The book's new sections target today's vital issues: creating a Web site; obtaining copyright/trademark protection on the Internet; coping with censorship of controversial art; and dealing with the new realities of funding sources. Additional chapters tell how to find galleries, arrange exhibitions, apply for grants, land survival jobs doing custom decorative art or teaching, and other relevant topics.

How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist, 5th ed.: Selling Yourself Without Selling Your Soul, Caroll Michels

The preeminent guide to taking control of your career and making a good living in the art world. Drawing on over two decades of experience, Michels walks artists through the complicated process of balancing grants, gallery representation, private dealer sales, and a personal studio to ensure a public profile and a steady income. Included is a wealth of insider's information on getting into a gallery, being your own PR agent, and negotiating prices, as well as innovative marketing, exhibition, and sales opportunities for various art disciplines, with new and expanded resources for succeeding in the burgeoning Internet art market.

Taking the Leap: Building a Career As a Visual Artist, Cay Lang

Based on artist and teacher Lang's popular seminars, it teaches artists how to succeed in today's complex and competitive art world. Offers inside information on how to show at galleries, nonprofit spaces and museums, as well as a host of nontraditional venues. This behind-the-scenes look at the art world reveals how decisions are made and what artists can expect and how they can create their own art scene on their own terms.


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