The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love is a comprehensive handbook that provides the information, tools, and techniques, for developing and sustaining a successful art career. It provides answers to the challenges artists face everyday and includes real-life examples, illustrations, step-by-step exercises, and bulleted lists that allow readers to dive in and begin working immediately.

Author Jackie Battenfield maintains her own career as a visual artist and teaches professional development classes at Columbia University, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and the Creative Capital Foundation.

The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love is scheduled for release in early Spring 2009 and will be published by Da Capo Press.