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

by Purvis Alston and Jackie Battenfield

Book Overview

A comprehensive guide for both emerging and mid-career artists to pursue a career in the visual arts.

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306816520
• ISBN13: 9780306816529
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Balance
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.3"