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You as a Professional in the Art World
The best way to understand what it means to be a full-time working professional in the Art World is to hear directly from 8 artists.
Honor your own professionalism now by taking stock of your art making and marketing practices. As you read the words of your colleagues, challenge yourself. Consider what you will do to enhance your art career in the next 6 months.
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Be Creatively Consistent
A reader quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous words "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." The New Dictionary of Cultual Literacy says it means that a great person does not have to think consistently from one day to the next. Do not confuse consistency with conformity!
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How to Find an Art Rep
"An effective art rep is like a film agent; each performs a similar function. If you were an aspiring movie star, rather than a visual artist, one of your greatest assets would be your agent.
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Early Bird Special: smARTist™ Telesummit
Find the right balance between your creativity and making a living from your art! Artists who came to the 2008 Telesummit learned specific ways to juggle their art, a day job, family, friends . . .and "what's for dinner?"
. . .without sacrificing their pocket book, creative time, or chasing down the wrong ways to put their art in the
world - and now you can too!
Come to Your Senses - All of Them
Only you can create the conditions for your version of success. No one can guarantee your results, but you can increase the odds of getting closer to what you want by being S.M.A.R.T. about your goals and using all of your senses. It all starts in your mind. What are you telling yourself about the current economy? What filters do you have in place to screen in opportunities that are good for you? How do you detect and screen out scams and frauds?
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Three Good Reasons to Enter Juried Competitions
One of the reasons Pat Fiorello entered competitions was to gain her Signature Membership in the Georgia Watercolor Society at their National Exhibition in April 2008. She is pictured here with show judge Mel Stabin. In the recent A.C.T. TeleClass "The Ins & Outs of Juried Shows" Pat shared her experience as both entrant and juror in more than 60 shows over 5 years. Here are three good reasons to think about entering juried competitions as a means to an end.
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Spring Clean Your Art Business
If sales are a bit slow right now, take advantage and do a spring-clean. That way, you will be ready for the upsurge promised for the summer. Give your art marketing the "white glove test" and apply this 7-point improvement plan:
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Take the Tax Time Recovery Program
Everything that goes up comes down. And then it goes up again.In upturns, we give ourselves credit for making good decisions...In downturns, we become the loudest critics on the planet.
Enter Juried Shows the S.M.A.R.T. Way
"Each year, artists waste millions of dollars and thousands of hours because they don't know the secrets professionals know. Because they don't do things right, they don't get into the good shows that they should have gotten into. And won prizes for. And sold their art from." Benny Shaboy Art Opportunities Monthly
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Discover Your Audience
Have you heard the old joke abut the passerby who came upon a man on his knees, under a lamppost, apparently looking for something? The passerby crouches down to help look, asking what did you lose and where did you last see it? The response: "Over there somewhere, but there's more light here."