It was true in 2002 and it’s just as true in 2024: The more ways you can reach your artience, the greater your chances for selling your art. Yes, most likely, your creative strength lies in your visual language, whatever the genre. And words—the language of everyday...
Beyond the 9 to 5: How to Turn Selling Art Online Into Serious Income
Here’s what we know: about half of Americans consider themselves artistic and creative, so selling art online is a dream for a whole lot people. However, even as the art market has become more and more competitive, a significant number of creators rarely know where to...
The Ultimate Power Couple for Selling Your Art…The Artistic Fingerprint + Artist Statement
Let’s define our terms, shall we? Before spring planting, I like to pull out weeds first. Sometimes definitions need this too. Artist Statement: Weed pulling… what it’s not. It’s not: a bio, a resume, or a personal critique. Planting… Your Artist Statement is a...
Selling Your Art 2024, The Artist Statement, and Instagram
Does the artist statement help you in selling your art? Besides vibing on Instagram, your artist statement improves the process for selling your art in 20 other places. When I stumbled upon artist statements it was 1992. The Internet was barely off breast feeding....
HOW TO RELISH YOUR ARTIST STATEMENT
Here’s two things I know to be true about artist statements: An immediate, very human desire arises when someone is moved by your art: to know more about the person who moved them. Simple. Undeniable. …
Your Artist Statement … Why Bother? Part 3
Three More Rational Reasons To Not Write Your Artist Statement…or, Are they really “rational?” In Part 1, I wrote about seven core reasons artists use to rationalize away any need for an artist statement. And then we dove into the first four in Parts 1 & 2. …
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