Your artist website is your portfolio these days. It’s usually the first place people go to get a full picture of you and your art.
Your website is the 1 piece of virtual real estate that you have 100% control over. You select what people see and define how they will navigate the experience. Are you ready for them?
This is a focused conversation with Jessica Burko about artist websites.
Seeing January 1 on the calendar is enough to get almost anyone’s blood pumping.
The thrill of starting fresh! The anticipation of creating new benchmarks and attaining new dreams!
Oh, but wait. There’s a lot of crap that you need to get rid of –stuff that might get in your way if it doesn’t drive you crazy first.
What would it be like if the New Year felt . . . well . . . felt truly new?
A Fresh Start: Actions To Take Before January 1 Read
This is for anyone who is serious about building and living the life of an artist.This episode is also for you if other artists ask for your advice about how they can do what you have done.
I cover: Why devotion to the work has to come first, when you can call yourself an artist, why you shouldn’t be devoted to 1 medium, and the first 6 practical business steps.
The Art Biz ep. 173: Starting Your Art Career Read
It’s easy to chase the algorithm these days. It’s more difficult to remain true to yourself and your art.
Kamal X started a collection of photographs after the murder of George Floyd—risking his health at the height of Covid because, he says, the moment was bigger than him. Kamal wants you to remember the light you have inside you, and that you can visualize and create something bigger for yourself.
The Art Biz ep. 172: Stop Incessantly Feeding the Social Media Algorithms with Kamal X Read
A lot of artists say they’d like to work with interior designers, but few artists have been able to crack the code for doing so. Carol MacConnell is one of them. In this episode, we discuss her income streams, how she, as an artist who is legally deaf, navigates conversations, and how she finds, nurtures, and works with interior designers.
You’ll also hear me plead my case for contracts. Always.
[ Post republished for 2023. ] Before you go too deeply into planning for the New Year, take time to review your most recent journey around the sun with The Artist’s Annual Review.
Reflect on your experiences.
Remember what you accomplished and encountered.
Record your reflections and memories.
Return to your record in the future when you want to …
Remind yourself of how full the year was for you.
The Art Biz ep. 135: Your Life is a Work of Art — Annual Review Read
Action builds confidence, and you need verbs for action.
Look back on how your confidence as an artist has grown over as a result not only of reading about something or hearing about it, but of actually doing it. Making more art. Having more shows. Submitting to more opportunities.
With this in mind, I have 7 verbs to embrace, which you might not normally associate with your art career.
The Art Biz ep. 170: 7 Essential Verbs for Artists to Embrace Read
David Sandum’s journey through depression led him to the works of Vincent Van Gogh and Edvard Munch—finding solace and a deep connection with their expression of raw emotions.
We discuss how art continues to be a lifeline in his struggle with depression, the tension between making art for yourself and surviving in a commercial market, and how and why he started the international Postcard Art Exhibit.
The Art Biz ep. 169: Leaning Into Art to Battle Depression with David Sandum Read
A catalog of your art can be a snapshot of your career at a moment in time or a retrospective documenting your entire life’s work.
With the advent of on-demand, inexpensive publishing, every artist should be using catalogs to promote their art.
And, yes, I recommend print catalogs before electronic versions.
Artist Catalogs: Why You Need Them, What to Include, and How to Use Read
It’s so much easier to make art by yourself and show it and sell it by yourself. And this approach works for many artists, but not for everyone.
In this episode I talk with Nanci Hersh about a big curatorial project that align with her values of connection and community. We discuss its benefits, what she’d do differently next time, and the ripple effect caused by impacting the artists first.
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