How to Make Money as an Artist: The 7 Winning Strategies of Successful Fine Artists

by Sean Moore

Book Overview

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 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556524137
• ISBN13: 9781556524134
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

How to Make Money as an Artist

As an student of art, I found "How To Make Money As An Artist" highly informative. I will definitely use the book as a useful and needed reference. Mr. Moore's sound, artful insights are practical, his advice is based on successful experience and his book is written in a refreshingly readable and natural style. I particularly appreciated his motivating and respectful tone; one from an artist to his fellow artists. I could relate to this writer. I take issue with a person who wrote that artists would do better buying a book on how to start up a small business. I question whether the reviewer is, in fact, an artist at all because clearly, he or she misses the point. Artists, like all professionals, relate to their own kind. Mr. Moore's expertise as a successful artist is directed at, and appeals to, artists who, like all of humankind, learn best from their contemporaries. Any one can open a mutual fund. It takes a special sense to impart the nuanced wisdom that Artist Moore has done for his colleagues so masterfully in this book.

This book gave me some direction

I bought this book a couple of weeks ago. I haven't read any other titles about making money at art but I found that this one has a lot of good tips in it and it's an easy read. I really liked the part about building your own website. My only dislike is that all the links/resources at the back of the book is for American artists. I think they should have included resources for Canadian artists too.