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

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Read an interview with Jackie by Amber Hawk Swanson in NYFA Current

"The guide offers many lessons that most artists never even heard of in an arts program.."Check out Trong Nuygen's video interview with me on Art21

"...this book is 345 pages of pure career-coaching gold." Read Annie Bissett's review of the book at Woodblock Dreams

"Battenfield shares her success stories but also discloses her professional foibles, which creates a sense of 'we are all in this together'." Read Heather Saunder's review on Artist In Transit

"This book should be on every artists desk!!" Read Lisa Mikulski's review of the book at MYARTSPACE

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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