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Art, Inc.

The Essential Guide for Building Your Career as an Artist

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Art, Inc.

By: Lisa Congdon, Meg Mateo Ilasco - editor, Jonathan Field - foreword
Narrated by: Lisa Congdon
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You don't have to starve to be an artist. Build a career doing what you love. In this practical guide, professional artist Lisa Congdon reveals the many ways you can earn a living by making art - through illustration, licensing, fine art sales, print sales, teaching, and beyond. Including industry advice from such successful art-world pros as Nikki McClure, Mark Hearld, Paula Scher, and more, Art, Inc. will equip you with the tools - and the confidence - to turn your passion into a profitable business.

Learn how to: set actionable goals, diversify your income, manage your bookkeeping, copyright your work, promote with social media, build a standout website, exhibit with galleries, sell and price your work, license your art, acquire an agent, and much more.

©2014 Lisa Congdon; Foreword copyright 2014 by Jonathan Fields (P)2019 Tantor Business Development & Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship Business Career Inspiring Art Business Visual Art
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An artist that can easily speak the language of other artists and understands the artist's thought patterns. Very valuable advice for anyone in art.

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I enjoyed the book and I feel it provides a great starting point for people who have no clue what to expect from a creative professional life.
It’s was missing some out of the box ideas for active artists.

Good advice for beginners, on the basic side for others

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Gives some practical advice if you're fresh out of high school in America. Otherwise, there is a lot of repetition that comes with extremely basic advice (including a whole chapter devoted to social media set-up and practice...). The business advice is totally geared to someone in America and the advice for artists outside of this is "check your government website". I switched off eventually and got to about half way through before I pulled the plug.

Only for USA noobs

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