ARTIST SELF HELP BOOKS
You could say I'm a little bit addicted ready these types of books. All you need to do is click on the books or titles to purchase them through the fishpond website.
The Artist's Way: A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative by Julia Cameron
This work provides a 12-week course that guides the reader through the process of recovering their creative self. It aims to dispel the "I'm not talented enough" conditioning that tends to hamper the creativity of many people.
The Artist's Way Morning Pages Journal: A Companion Volume to the Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
This book is a journal of blank lined pages, with quotes, for you to use when writing your morning pages.
Art Marketing 101: A Handbook for the Fine Artist by Constance Smith
A must reading for any one seeking to make a living through their artwork. Art Marketing 101 shares the secrets of suc cessful artists, ways to keep customers coming back, alternative avenues for selling art, photographing artwork, creating an impressive image, building name recognition, sales and publicity tactics, pricing artwork, planning an exhibition, the legal aspects of selling artwork, portfolios every artist needs, contacting galleries, succeeding without an agent, publishing and licensing artwork, preparing a marketing plan, and debunking the myths surrounding the art business. -- Midwest Book Review.
Art Office, Second Edition by Constance Smith and Sue Viders
Artists will find forms to help them organize their office: a twelve-month planning calendar, financial statement, sales agreement, model release, Form VA, rental-lease agreement, artist-agent agreement, slide reference sheet, competition record, target market chart, monthly project status, show planner, sample letters to various art world professionals, pricing worksheet, bill of sale, and many more. Constance Smith began her career as an art rep in California. She has been assisting artists nationwide for over twenty years. She is author of the popular book Art Marketing 101. Sue Viders has been an art marketing consultant for over thirty-five years.
Internet 101 for Artists, Second Edition: With a Special Guide to Selling Art on Ebay by Constance Smith and Susan Greaves
Educate yourself on all aspects of promoting your artwork online. This book includes a thirty-page chapter on the methods Susan F. Greaves, a California artist, has developed to successfully sell her work on eBay and make thousands of dollars per year. You’ll also learn about: acquiring a URL, broadcasting for results, designing your homepage, meta tags, guerrilla tactics, search engines, tracking visitors, and more. Constance Smith began her career as an art rep in California. She has been assisting artists nationwide for over twenty years. She is author of the popular book Art Marketing 101. Susan F. Greaves is a practicing artist.
Selling Art 101: The Art of Creative Selling
Take your career to new sales heights by knowing how to approach your customers.
This follow-up to the strong-selling, Books for a Better Life nominee LIFE IS A VERB uses stories and exercises to help readers see the artfulness in their own lives. Perfect for creative professionals who loved Patti's first book, fans of Julia Cameron's THE ARTIST'S WAY and all who strive to tap into their own creativity, whether they call themselves an artist or not. Related essays are organized around six overarching creative commitments that guide the reader to get beyond the fear of outward expression, the diminishment, the I'm just a knitter A" phase of embracing his//her inner artist and to recognize that life itself IS art. This is a book designed not only for visual artists, but for those who could benefit from seeing life itself as an art project. Readers will be inspired to see all of life more creatively and artfully - and to make art of their days by engaging in a daily practice. Exercises after each essay will help translate and embed the lessons of the essay into the reader's own life and context. As in Life is a Verb, there will be short 10-minute exercises and longer, 37-day exercises after each essay. Readers attracted to this book include those who say: * I'm not creative A" - The book will help this audience reclaim their childlike exuberance about creating by helping them see artA" in every day life. * I'm just a dabbler A" - The book will help this audience move beyond the minimization of their creativity ( justA") to fully embrace it. These readers will learn to ownA" their creativity. * I'm an artist A" - The book will help this audience challenge, deepen and explore their artful practice. These readers will push against the reaches of their creativity.
Art from Intuition: Overcoming Your Fears and Obstacles to Making Art
"Art from Intuition" offers artists a unique system for freeing their creative intuition. By letting go of self-criticism, doubt and insecurity artists will be able to soar to new heights of creativity. Over 60 practical exercises take readers from basic to more sophisticated techniques. Each exercise, supported by step-by-step instructions, is accessible to artists at every level and can be completed in any order. This title includes examples of professional and student level artwork.
The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to be the Artist You Truly Are
When Danny Gregory's life was turned upside down by tragedy, he learned to cope by teaching himself to draw. The result was a complete transformation of his life, his priorities, his career and the way he saw the world. In handwritten chapters full of his own lush watercolour illustrations, Danny offers readers a chance to reconnect with their own creative energies, using drawing as an example. He gently instructs his audience in the art of allowing themselves to fail, giving up the expectation of perfection and opening up to the world.
344 Questions: The Creative Person's Do-It-Yourself Guide to Insight, Survival, and Artistic Fulfillment
The secret to creative success lies not in knowing the right answers, but in knowing how to ask the right questions--and this little book is full of them! A veritable therapy session on paper, 344 Questions is composed entirely of questions designed to help you determine where you are in your life and career, where you want to be, and how to get there. Hopefully, you'll also laugh along the way. Each spread in this colorful, pocket-sized book contains a series of several questions illustrated in Stefan Bucher's unique, whimsical, hand-lettered style. The questions are designed to get you thinking and drawing and writing with room on each spread to fill in the blanks and jot down ideas.
The Creative Journal: The Art of Finding Yourself by Lucia Capacchione
A recognized classic in the field of art therapy and creativity, this book is a perfect guide to discovering and releasing your inner potential through writing and drawing. It contains over 50 writing and drawing exercises to help you find and love one's self, get in touch with ones' feelings, and dreams. It will also show you how to: Play with new media of expression (color, images, symbols). Sort out the seemingly random experiences in your life. Deal with creative blocks to get a clearer picture of your potential and how to use it. Define and implement changes. Enrich your relationship with yourself and others Written for both novice and veteran journal keeper, as well as group leaders and counselors, it is a visually stunning book illustrated by the author, her students and clients.
Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils of Artmaking by David Bayles and Ted Orland
Art & Fear is an unpretentious little paperback, written by two lifelong friends who have been artists, as well as other things, for most of their lives. Both of them have their feet firmly rooted in the real world that we all live in (however high their ideas and ideals might fly), and both of them have keen insights into what enables individuals to produce good art and to continue to produce good art, and what stumbling blocks stop many individuals. These insights are of value to artists in any medium whatsoever, and are in fact likely to be of significant value to many individuals who don't think of themselves as artists at all. One doesn't need to be an artist to be struggling with goals that seem beyond your reach and a lack of appreciation from others; it's just a little more pervasive in the artmaking world.
One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity by Miwon Kwon
Site-specific art emerged in the late 1960s in reaction to the growing commodification of art and the prevailing ideals of art's autonomy and universality. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, as site-specific art intersected with land art, process art, performance art, conceptual art, installation art, institutional critique, community-based art, and public art, its creators insisted on the inseparability of the work and its context. In recent years, however, the presumption of unrepeatability and immobility encapsulated in Richard Serra's famous dictum "to remove the work is to destroy the work" is being challenged by new models of site specificity and changes in institutional and market forces. One Place after Another offers a critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960s and a theoretical framework for examining the rhetoric of aesthetic vanguardism and political progressivism associated with its many permutations. Informed by urban theory, postmodernist criticism in art and architecture, and debates concerning identity politics and the public sphere, the book addresses the siting of art as more than an artistic problem. It examines site specificity as a complex cipher of the unstable relationship between location and identity in the era of late capitalism. The book addresses the work of, among others, John Ahearn, Mark Dion, Andrea Fraser, Donald Judd, René¥ Green, Suzanne Lacy, Iñ©§¯ Manglano-Ovalle, Richard Serra, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, and Fred Wilson.
Breaking Into the Art World How to Start Making a Living As an Artist by Brian Marshall White
Have you ever wanted to be a full-time artist and make a living at it? Have you ever wanted to know how to get started selling your art? Then this book is for you! "Breaking into the Art World" is filled with practical information on "how to get started making a living as an artist." The author, Marshall White, lives in Kona, Hawaii and works as a full-time artist. His paintings and prints of Hawaii are wonderfully detailed and popular with local art buyers and tourists who visit the island. At this writing, his works of art are displayed in various galleries in Hawaii and in Thailand and are collected by people from all over the world. This book is the first of his writings to be published and was written to help other artists who often ask him, "Do you make a living with your art how did you make the jump to being a full-time artist?" It has been written for people who, like himself when he began, have no clue what to do to get started marketing and selling their art.
Reissued with an introduction by John Berger, "The Necessity of Art" is a beautifully written meditation on art's importance in viewing the world in which we live. In this wide-ranging and erudite exploration of literary and fine art, Fischer looks at the relationship between art and social reality, arguing that truthful art must both reflect reality in all its flaws and imperfections, and help show how change and improvement might be brought about. With his emphasis on the individual's need to engage with society, his rejection of rampant consumerism and hyper technology, and his emphasis on hope, this radical, affirmative and humane vision of the artistic endeavor remains as timely today as when it was first published sixty years ago.
How to Become a Famous Artist and Still Paint Pictures
A successful international artist offers a no-holds-barred approach to making it in the arts and selling your work."This profound, funny book, full of hard truths and smart advice, is must reading for artists. Read it and you just might transform your life and jolt your art career awake! Are you ready for some high voltage inspiration? Then come listen to the master's voice."Eric Maisel, A Life in the Arts"The best bunch of advice I've ever seen for someone who is serious about this crazy addiction called art."Barnaby Conrad, artist and best-selling author.
How to Make Money as an Artist The 7 Winning Strategies of Successful Fine Artists by Sean Moore
How to sell one's art isn't taught in art schools, yet it's an essential ingredient in getting work displayed and attracting art commissions. This straightforward, inexpensive guide is written for artists who want to present themselves and their work in the best possible light to the largest possible audience. Topics include creating a winning marketing package, getting a gallery, finding an artist representative, and obtaining free or low-cost advertising. Also included is a thorough resource listing that includes inexpensive sources for slide development, contact information for artist representatives, suggestions for durable mailing packaging, and contact names for foreign news media.
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
This book is a must-read for anyone experiencing the equivalent of "writers block" in ANY field of endeavour. The author, a successful novelist, identifies the negative phenomenon as "Resistance" (always named with a capital R). The first half of the book describes exactly how Resistance works, attacking the person in endlessly new and inventive ways, to prevent any new endeavour from being realised. This gives the reader some of the weapons needed to fight Resistance, with examples of how he and other successful creative people fought. But it's the second half of the book which really flies. The author points to another phenomenon, that kicks in whenever someone firmly commits to the endeavour and actually starts it (starts writing on that terrifying blank page). Somehow, forces way beyond the person's capabilities start coming to one's aid -- "help from above" (the author believes in God, but you can explain it however you like). Not only should anyone affected by Resistance read this book, but keep re-reading it until its principles and methods become internalised. An immensely encouraging piece of writing.
Ignore Everybody: And 39 Other Keys to Creativity
When Hugh MacLeod was a struggling young copywriter, living in a YMCA, he started to doodle on the backs of business cards while sitting at a bar. Those cartoons eventually led to a popular blog - gapingvoid.com - and a reputation for pithy insight and humour, in both words and pictures. MacLeod has opinions on everything - from marketing to the meaning of life - but one of his main subjects is creativity. Now, in his first book, he expands on his sharpest insights, wittiest cartoons and most useful advice.
Whatever You Think, Think The Opposite
There have been many books written on good business practice. All eminently sensible. All based on logic, common sense and good manners. It is essential if you want to be a supermarket manager. But for those wishing to break new ground, it is not enough. Logic and common sense have a habit of leading us to the same conclusions. If you are going to make your mark on the world you have to start thinking differently. To think differently, you have to think illogically. "Whatever You Think Think The Opposite" looks at life the wrong way in a bid to explain the benefits of making wrong decisions.
The Creative Habit: Learn it and Use I for Life
What makes someone creative? How does someone face the empty page, the empty stage and making something where nothing existed before? Not just a dilemma for the artist, it is something everyone faces everyday. What will I cook that isn't boring? How can I make that memo persuasive? What sales pitch will increase the order, get me the job, lock in that bonus? These too, are creative acts, and they all share a common need: proper preparation. For Twyla Tharp, creativity is no mystery; it's the product of hard work and preparation, of knowing one's aims and one's subject, of learning from approaches taken in the past. It's a process undertaken every day. It's a habit. The Creative Habit is not merely a look inside the mind of a remarkable woman with remarkable skills, but a programmatic, inspiring, encouraging guide to help each of us achieve our fullest creative potential.
If you've ever thought, "There must be more to life than this," "The Art of Non-Conformity" is for you. Based on Chris Guillebeau's popular online manifesto "A Brief Guide to World Domination," "The Art of Non-Conformity" defies common assumptions about life and work while arming you with the tools to live differently. You'll discover how to live on your own terms by exploring creative self-employment, radical goal-setting, contrarian travel, and embracing life as a constant adventure. Inspired and guided by Chris's own story and those of others who have pursued unconventional lives, you can devise your own plan for world domination-and make the world a better place at the same time.
Creative Arts Marketing by Elizabeth Hill, Terry O'Sullivan, and Catherine O'Sullivan
As a comprehensive overview of all aspects of marketing in the sector, Creative Arts Marketing remains unrivalled, and in addition this edition gives new coverage of Current knowledge and best practice about marketing and advertising through new media. The impact of Relationship Marketing techniques. A wholly revised and enhanced set of cases. Entirely revised and updated data on the arts 'industry'. Creative Arts Marketing reflects the diversity of the arts world in its wide ranging analysis of how different marketing techniques have worked for a diverse range of arts organizations. As such it is an invaluable text for both students and arts managers. A revised and completely updated new edition of a highly successful specialist marketing title. Practical integration of theory and marketing best practice for the arts sector. Packed with new and updated examples, cases and vignettes.
Trust the Process An Artist's Guide to Letting Go by Shaun McNiff
If you have a curiosity about your creativity, or bringing about artistic expression in your life, or you're an artist on the "path", this book is a gift.
Selling Art Without Galleries Toward Making a Living from Your Art by Daniel Grant
The first guide to selling art independently. Easy-to-follow, in-depth advice on the marketing of art. Follow-up to The Business of Being an Artist--35,000 copies sold! Exclusive information on "thinking outside the gallery" from other artists. This comprehensive resource shows artists how to make a living from their art--without relying on galleries. Through interviews with a range of successful artists, readers will learn how to write about their own work, how to arrange and curate exhibits, how to work in nonprofit arts spaces, how to determine when and if to advertised artwork for sale, and how to exhibit in non-art spaces. Artists will also find useful information for marketing their work, including photographing and framing, selling at art fairs, getting into juried shows, and selling over the Internet. Selling Art Without Galleries empowers artists everywhere to take control over their careers and find a market for their art.
The Artist-gallery Partnership: A Practical Guide to Consigning Art
Artists, dealers, and gallery owners, learn how to get the most out of your partnership. This essential guide - for both those who create art and those who sell art - offers a clear explanation of the consignment contracts that are at the heart of the artist-gallery relationship."The Artist-Gallery Partnership" provides readers with a thorough discussion on all aspects of this important relationship - from transportation, warranties, and insurance to pricing, commissions, promotion and more - and will allow artists and dealers to come to arrangements that are mutually beneficial.This guide provides expert information on all aspects of the artist-dealer/gallery relationship, and shows how to come to a mutually beneficial arrangement.
Marketing the Arts: A Fresh Approach
Marketing the Arts offers new and exciting ways to study and practice arts marketing, moving away from traditional managerial marketing to embrace other areas of marketing theory, including branding and consumer culture theory.
The New Creative Artist: A Guide to Developing Your Creative Spirit by Nita Leland
This updated version of The Creative Artist breathes new life into a popular North Light classic, helping artists reach greater levels of creativity, inspiration and artistic fulfillment. Perfect for fans of the original--and anyone who wants to be more creative--this book includes: A fresh, eye-catching design that showcases 50 percent new material. New instruction to address the creative challenges of today’s artist. More than 60 fun, fabulous activities for achieving greater creativity. Artwork in a wide variety of styles and mediums. Practical advice combined with inspiring exercises and insights from other artists make this the ultimate creativity guide!
Celebrate Your Creative Self by Mary Todd Beam
Artists and creatives of all kinds who are looking for new ways to liberate their artistic imagination will love this book. Readers are invited to playfully explore various aspects of visual art, such as light, color, texture and design through a series of imaginative art projects. Artists will experiment hands-on with dozens of techniques and mediums in new and unconventional ways including: * Capturing whites with crayon and wax resist * Glazing and floating colors * Portraying the patterns of nature with sedimentation and precipitation * Loosening up with gesso painting and printing with plastic * Constructing a new piece of art from old work * Experimenting with three-dimensional assemblage * Creating a street map In addition, artists are prompted to challenge their imaginations by building new painting surfaces, creating their own personal symbols and more. Further inspiration can be found in a gallery of work by more than 30 contributing artists. Celebrate Your Creative Self is a fun, no-fail guide every artist should have.
Letters to a Young Artist by Julia Cameron
Written in the form of letters to an aspiring artist, Letters to a Young Artist includes Julia Cameron's hints on how to become an artist and encourage the creative flow. Full of exercises - she suggests, for example, writing 14 pages on anything every morning - and advice on an artist's approach to many aspects of life, including work and play, rest and exercise, adventure and security, relationships and sex, personal appearance. There are inspiring ideas on what to write about and invaluable encouragement in dealing with creative blocks and temporary failure.
The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life by John Daido Loori
Everyone's creative, right? In the post-New Age twenty-first century, isn't it insulting to think otherwise? Now even readers who've wrung their hands over their elusive inner artist can take heart as Buddhist teacher Loori, founder and abbot of New York State's Zen Mountain Monastery, uses ancient practices to jump-start those life-enriching creative energies. The author's Zen journey, initiated by a class with photographer Minor White and his "One Hand Clapping" exhibit, led to a new way of seeing. As Loori relearned visual language in an attempt to "photograph who you really are," he embarked on an admittedly crooked path to the mystical tradition of Zen and a deeper understanding of art. He uses anecdote, exercises, and visual tools to illustrate the tenet that Zen arts live in people; that the making of a poem or calligraphy, or the performing of the tea ceremony, can and does shift a whole being. Loori's handsome and practical book will find crossover audiences from self-helpers and artists of all stripes. Whitney Scott
The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart by Julia Cameron
The Vein of Gold goes deeper than the Artist's Way does. (AW was just the tip of the iceberg.) There is about 19 weeks of work in this book if you take your time. You "write your life to right it."
The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love by Jackie Battenfield
Using a “tough love approach” to pursuing a career in the visual arts, Jackie Battenfield expands on her highly successful classes and workshops to provide a comprehensive guide for both emerging and mid-career artists. Providing real-life examples, illustrations, and step-by-step exercises, Battenfield offers readily applicable advice on all aspects of the job. Along with tips on planning and assessment, she presents strategies for self-management, including marketing, online promotion, building professional relationships, grant writing, and portfolio development. Each chapter ends with an insightful “Reality Check” interview, featuring advice and useful information from high-profile artists and professionals. The result is an inspiring, experiential guide brimming with field-tested techniques that readers can easily apply to their own career.
The Art Spirit by Robert Henri
The Art Spirit is a classic. No artist should ever be without a copy. This book invites reading time and time again. It brings us back to the principles. The value of things. Right thinking. Relationships. As a practicing artist, I can think of few books that have meant so much.
The Creativity Book A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance by Eric Maisel
Maisel consistently challenges the artist to be true to his/her artistic self in all his books, and this is no exception. Unlike The Artist's Way (a fine book for the creatively blocked or undiscovered), The Creativity Book targets the artist who has achieved a higher degree of self-knowledge and acceptance. He asks the reader to choose a Dream early in the year, which will be accomplished as the year unfolds. Each week highlights an aspect of living as a creative being, and includes exercises to clear the way to living more fully. The exercises range from easy (have a morning and evening tea ritual for three days) to much harder (sit for 40 minutes and do NOTHING), but the difficulty will doubtless vary for each reader.
Creative Coaching Essentials: Everything You Need to Discover and Activate Your Muse
Coaching The Artist Within shows people how to become more effective creators by guiding them through 12 self-coaching lessons. Eric Maisel writes each lesson with a novelist's flair, as a narrative complete with examples, exercises, and questions to help readers explore underlying issues that may be keeping them from pursuing their urge to create. Topics include committing, planning and doing, generating mental energy, achieving a centred presence, becoming an anxiety expert, upholding your dream, and maintaining a creative life.
Fearless Creating: A Step-by-step Guide to Starting and Completing Your Work of Art
The blank page, empty canvas, or uncarved stone will often fill artists with dread. But so may the thought of finishing, showing or even selling their work. Maisel guides the reader, whether an experienced artist or someone just starting out, past the pitfalls that appear in each stage of creation.
"The most accessible and complete art therapy book ever published. It is a great achievement." --Shaun McNiff, author of Art Is Medicine and Trust the Process "Malchiodi's fascinating book shows how modern art therapy is being employed as a potent health-care intervention." --Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Prayer Is Good Medicine and Healing Words Newly updated and revised, this authoritative guide shows you how to use art therapy to guide yourself and others on a special path of personal growth, insight, and transformation. Cathy A. Malchiodi, a leading expert in the field, gives you step-by-step instructions for stimulating creativity and interpreting the resulting art pieces. This encouraging and effective method can help you and others recover from pain and become whole again. The Art Therapy Sourcebook will help you: Find relief from overwhelming emotions Recover from traumatic losses Reduce their stress levels Discover insights about yourself Experience personal growth
The Creativity Formula: 50 Scientifically-Proven Creativity Boosters for Work and for Life
Love may make the world go around but it's creativity that drives it forward. Unfortunately, creativity is often viewed as something that is elusive and unpredictable, a quality only owned by "creative" types. Psychologists have now demonstrated that we can all be more creative in our thinking. They have rigorously researched the conditions and techniques that allow people to maximise their ability to think creatively about problem solving and the way forward. There is, in fact, a formula – and it isn't difficult. The Creativity Formula draws on that research to provide 50 simple and scientifically-proven ways to improve their creative thinking ability – instantly. Its easy techniques will lead to more effective problem solving in both work and life and a business that gets ahead and stays ahead by out-thinking and out-innovating its competitors.
Affirmations for Artists by Eric Maisel
Don't be fooled by the deceptively simple title. Affirmations for Artists is a smart, practical and irreverent toolkit for deepening your creativity and enhancing your life. Unlike most of the annoyingly ethereal affirmation books I've read, this one yanks affirmations down to earth, tackles misconceptions and pitfalls, and demonstrates how to use affirmations effectively. The author cuts straight to the heart of the problems artists of all stripes wrestle with and serves up realistic strategies for problem solving. Crafted with wit, grace and no-nonsense compassion, Affirmations for Artists is a generous and elegant book.
Artist to Artist: Inspiration and Advice from Visual Artists Past & Present
A beautiful selection of short quotations from artists -- lessons learned, inspiration, know-how, observations, ruminations, history -- well-organized by subject, presenting overall an artist's way of comprehending her/his work and this world. This is an enjoyable read and a lovely book for anyone (including this reviewer, who works as a lawyer) who would like some daily inspiration from the deeper levels of human being, seeing, comprehension and creativity. It is not a book that one "finishes". It is to be picked up again and again. Also a fine gift for anyone who is a thoughtful artist, (e.g. also gave one to my 21-year-old nephew in college.)
Creating a Life Worth Living by Carol Lloyd
Dreaming is easy. Making it happen is hard. With a fresh perspective, Carol Lloyd motivates the person searching for two things: the creative life and a life of sanity, happiness and financial solvency. Creating a Life Worth Living is for the hundreds of thousands of people who bought Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way, but who are looking for more down-to-earth solutions and concrete tasks for achieving their goals. Creating a Life Worth Living helps the reader search memory for inspiration, understand his or her individual artistic profile, explore possible futures, design a daily process and build a structure of support. Each of the 12 chapters, such as "The Drudge We Do For Dollars" and "Excavating the Future," contains specific exercises and daily tasks that help readers to clarify their desires and create a tangible plan of action for realizing dreams. The book also provides inspiring anecdotes and interviews with people who have succeeded in their chosen fields, such as performance artist Anna Devere Smith, writer Sally Tisdale and filmmaker R. J. Cutler. The pursuit of one's dreams is one of the great joys in life but also one of the most terrifying. Creating a Life Worth Living is an invaluable road map for this journey, guiding readers as they take the first tentative steps that are necessary before they can fly.
As a comprehensive overview of all aspects of marketing in the sector, Creative Arts Marketing remains unrivalled, and in addition this edition gives new coverage of- * Current knowledge and best practice about marketing and advertising through new media * The impact of Relationship Marketing techniques * A wholly revised and enhanced set of cases * Entirely revised and updated data on the arts 'industry' Creative Arts Marketing reflects the diversity of the arts world in its wide ranging analysis of how different marketing techniques have worked for a diverse range of arts organizations. As such it is an invaluable text for both students and arts managers
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art
Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? Intriguing and entertaining, "The $12 Million Stuffed Shark" is a "Freakonomics" approach to the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world.
How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist
"Provides the best overview of political and other aspects of the art world that I have ever come across. . . It is a bible that every artist should have." --Shannon Wilkinson, president, Cultural Communications, New York "This book should be required reading for every exhibiting artist." --Ellen Rixford, "Graphic News" "This self-help career book is the pick of the litter." --Donna Marxer, "Artists' News" "Michels is filled with energy and ideas. . . Her experience is the reader's bonus." --"American Artist"
At first and for a long way into the book, we encounter the wheel-greasing exercises that worked magic for millions, helping people discover their innate creativity by devising gentle ways around the myriad obstacles that block us (e.g., listing things we would secretly love to do.) Cameron re-introduces the basic tools the daily morning exercise of hand-writing three free-flowing pages and the weekly solitary "artist's date," designed to help us romance our inner artists and she adds the ancient practice of walking as a means of getting in touch with our deeper feelings and truer thoughts (hence the title). "When I can, I walk with friends, noting how companionable our silences become, how effortlessly deep our conversations," Cameron writes. Cameron does indeed capture the feeling of strolling and talking with an old and trusted guide. Her core insights are the same as in earlier volumes, yet her words seem to have grown wiser. She writes about the distractions of success, and about the long solitary stretches "climbing the glass mountain" it takes to bring a large-scale creative project to completion. Her latest book reveals how reaching higher also means going deeper.
Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance
The bestselling trilogy that began with "The Artist's Way" and "Walking in This World" concludes with this guidance on weathering the periods in an artist's life when inspiration appears to have run dry.
Collage for the Soul: Expressing Hopes and Dreams Through Art
For many people art is at once a form of self-expression and discovery, and collage, based on the idea of spontaneously layering images and symbols, is a perfect medium for this process. This book approaches collage by theme, with five chapters representing 20 projects. These chapters deal with the expression of personal creativity, exploring and recording relationships, dreaming and wishing, finding inspiration in nature and creating visual memoirs. The instructions explain how to create a personal project, with necessary techniques and ideas for substituting personal themes and materials. The book concludes with a gallery of 26 projects by leading artists in the field, to inspire readers in their own collages.
Make Your Creative Dreams Real: A Plan for Procrastinators, Perfectionists, Busy People, and People Who Would Really Rather Sleep All Day
Filled with whimsical humor and tender understanding of human foibles, extensive resource sections, and lots of exercises, "Make Your Creative Dreams Real" is the all-in-one book for everyone who has ever wanted to live a more deeply creative and satisfying life.
Juicy Pens, Thirsty Paper: Gifting the World with Your Words and Stories, and Creating the Time and Energy to Actually Do It
A deeply inspirational and creative guide to the joyous mission of storytelling and writing, this work is completely handwritten and filled with SARK's signature full-color art.
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The Artist's Marketing and Action Plan Workbook by The Jonathan Talbot and Geoffrey Howard
This book has been written to help you become more skilled at the art of selling your art. It is a workbook, a book to write in. It will guide you through the process of learning how to sell your art and how to make money doing it! The making of art and the selling of art are essentially different. For most of us, artmaking is intensely personal and private. Only when we are finished are we willing to share what we have done. Selling art is, on the other hand, a social activity in which we need to interact with the world outside our studios. This book provides a vocabulary and structure for that interaction. When you have finished doing the exercises in this book, you will have a personalized, step-by-step marketing and action plan for selling your work.
I'd Rather Be in the Studio! by Alyson B. Stanfield
The Artist's No-Excuse Guide to Self-Promotion offers practical approaches that help you sell more art and build an art career that lasts. Alyson B. Stanfield, the art-marketing guru behind ArtBizCoach.com, shares self-promotion tools that have enhanced the careers of thousands of artists. You'll learn how to: (1) Introduce yourself as an artist so people want to know more; (2) Nail your artist statement to discover the right words for all of your marketing messages; (3) Expand your mailing list and use it to cultivate collectors; (4) Create marketing materials that outshine the competition; (5) Become a media magnet so buyers come to you; (6) Take advantage of your Web site and blog to build a bigger audience; and much more. It would be great if there were a precise formula for getting your art into galleries, museums and private collections. But every artist's path is different. That's why I'd Rather Be in the Studio! provides easy-to-follow self-promotion practices that help you find your way at any point in your career. Match Internet marketing strategies with sincere personal skills to take charge of your career.
In one handy volume, here are 187 easy ways for you to become a more successful artist. Inside, award-winning artist and art coach Kathy Gulrich shares some of her most insightful, and helpful, artist tips. You'll learn how to: - Get your bio, artist statement, and resume finished once and for all - Get your artwork into galleries and shows - Keep your collectors coming back for more - Develop - and learn from - your artist community - Organize your studio - and yourself - Be even more creative! 187 Tips for Artists is perfect for the artist who wants to get off to a great start - and the seasoned artist who's looking for an extra edge. No matter where you are in your art career, you'll find down-to-earth, practical artist tips that will help you become more successful - starting today!
Conversations with Kostabi by Mark Kostabi
Kostabi's hermetically pristine, cartoony paintings feature featureless figures engaged in either allegorical or utterly prosaic activities that reflect the futile busyness and trivialized romanticism of our postmodern lives. They are at once comic-book funny and intellectually shrewd, but Kostabi's true creation is his artist persona and what he calls "Kostabi World," his art-making enterprise. Kostabi doesn't make his artwork himself; instead he employs "committees" of idea people, writers, other artists, and random contributors. In toying with the concept of art by asking, "Is it the object itself, the process of making it, or just the idea?" Kostabi anoints himself the court jester in the realm ruled by Duchamp and Warhol. Here he conducts a provocative and very clever self-interview that illuminates his interest in the long-standing tradition of artist's assistants. An artist unconcerned with "fine" art and a media darling (he's been on a number of prime-time news shows as well as appearing in everything from Playboy to Artforum and People), Kostabi is a truly liberated talent. Donna Seaman
ART WORK: Everything You Need to Know (and Do) As You Pursue Your Art Career by Heather Darcy Bhandari and Jonathan Melber
The most comprehensive guide of its kind, Art/Work gives artists of every level the tools they need to make it in an art world so competitive one dealer likens it to "The Sopranos, except nobody gets killed." Whether you're an art school grad looking for a gallery, a mid-career artist managing a busy studio, or someone just thinking about becoming a professional artist, this indispensable resource will help you build your career and protect yourself along the way. Unlike other creative professionals, visual artists don't have agents or managers. You have to do it all yourself, at least until you find gallery representation -- and even then, there are important business and legal issues you need to understand to stay in control of your career and ensure you're being treated fairly.