The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love by Jackie Battenfie

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Gallery director, artist, and lecturer Jackie Battenfield offers expert advice on how to develop a sustained and rewarding career as a visual artist.

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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.

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The Artist's Career Guide : How to Make a Living Doing What You Love

Author Biography

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.

Review

Booklist, 6/1/09 "A readable, realistic, and practical field guide to professional success in the visual arts...A wealth of reproduced art and profiles of artists complete this inspiring, useful, and, given the rise in do-it-yourself careers, timely resource." Joanne Mattera, ArtBlog: Marketing Mondays, 6/15/09 "This book explains the art world and offers clear and useful steps to setting goals and achieving them--information that until recently most artists never learned in art school...This is one well-timed and well-written book." NEWSgrist.com, 6/18/09 "It is an experiential guide brimming with field-tested techniques that readers can apply to their own practice. With equal parts of practicality, warmth, good humor, and insight, Battenfield demystifies the path artists travel towards a flourishing career." Peggy Payne, Peggy Payne's Boldness Blog, 6/16/09 "[Jackie Battenfield] knows what she's writing about." The Expat Blog, 6/18/09 "Offers clear and useful steps to setting goals and achieving them."

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Booklist, 6/1/09 "A readable, realistic, and practical field guide to professional success in the visual arts…A wealth of reproduced art and profiles of artists complete this inspiring, useful, and, given the rise in do-it-yourself careers, timely resource."Joanne Mattera, ArtBlog: Marketing Mondays, 6/15/09 "This book explains the art world and offers clear and useful steps to setting goals and achieving them--information that until recently most artists never learned in art school…This is one well-timed and well-written book."NEWSgrist.com, 6/18/09 "It is an experiential guide brimming with field-tested techniques that readers can apply to their own practice. With equal parts of practicality, warmth, good humor, and insight, Battenfield demystifies the path artists travel towards a flourishing career." Peggy Payne, Peggy Payne's Boldness Blog, 6/16/09 "[Jackie Battenfield] knows what she's writing about."The Expat Blog, 6/18/09 "Offers clear and useful steps to setting goals and achieving them."MyArtSpace Blog, 6/22/09 "Highly recommended…an excellent resource for visual artists at any stage of their career…This book should be on every artists desk!!"MyArtSpace blog "Highly Recommended…an excellent resource for visual artists at any stage of their career…This book should be on every artist's desk!!"Marketing Mondays blog "This book explains the art world and offers clear and useful steps to setting goals and achieving them-information that until recently most artists never learned in art school…This in one well-timed and well-written book."NewsGrist "It's an experimental guide brimming with field-tested techniques that readers can apply to their own practice. With equal parts of practicality, warmth, good humor, and insight, Battenfield demystifies the path artists travel towards a flourishing career."Peggy Payne's blog "[Jackie Battenfield] knows what she's writing about.""Offers clear and useful steps to setting goals and achieving them."

Details ISBN0306816520 Author Jackie Battenfield Short Title ARTISTS GD Publisher Da Capo Press Language English ISBN-10 0306816520 ISBN-13 9780306816529 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 702.3 Illustrations Yes Year 2009 Publication Date 2009-06-30 Pages 380 Imprint Da Capo Press Inc Subtitle How to Make a Living Doing What You Love Place of Publication Cambridge, MA Country of Publication United States DOI 10.1604/9780306816529 Audience General/Trade AU Release Date 2009-06-09 NZ Release Date 2009-06-09 US Release Date 2009-06-09 UK Release Date 2009-06-09 We've got this

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