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

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Off to the studio for the summer

June 20, New York Times article, Creative Types, Learning to Be Business-Minded about a series of professional development classes at the New York Foundation for the Arts for which I did the keynote address.
August 13-15, Creative Capital workshop in San Antonio, Texas
August 27-29, Creative Capital workshop in Durham, North Carolina
":..like a Rosetta Stone that unlocks the mysteries of a complex business, bringing a desperately needed level of control to a burgeoning artist over his own future." Louis Cook, ArtDesignCafe Magazine

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 and the Creative Capital Foundation.

The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love is published by Da Capo Press.

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