Why the lone artist mindset keeps you small (263)
Going it alone feels easier. No coordination, no compromise, no communication overhead. But the artists building the careers you admire are rarely doing it alone.
In this solo episode, I make the case for collaboration as a strategic habit, not a one-time favor. I shares real-world examples, explain what makes them work, and offer a question to ask the next time you’re planning a show or a new body of work.
Thriving as an artist in a rural market
Artists in rural markets often find it difficult to get support and locate opportunities that are close to them, much less sell their art.
How do you navigate your rural market?
What do you do differently than artists in metropolitan areas?
What are you waiting for? The real costs of postponing strategic work in your art business (261)
The daily work of running an art business — making art, posting, responding, shipping — always feels urgent. The strategic work doesn’t. So it waits. But postponing that deeper evaluation isn’t neutral.
There are five specific costs that accumulate when you keep the strategic work on the back burner, quarter after quarter. None of them announce themselves. And that’s precisely what makes them so damaging.
The art business self-assessment every artists should do (260)
Before you can decide what to do next in your art business, you need to know what you actually have. In episode 260 of The Art Biz, I walk through the three-zone framework I use with every private client: Outreach, Presence, and Systems.
It’s a structured self-assessment that gives you a clear, honest picture of where your business stands, so you can stop guessing and start making decisions that actually move things forward.
Do you have the art business you actually want? (259)
Most artists didn’t design their art business. They drifted into it. A gallery here, a commission there, a product line because someone asked.
In this episode of The Art Biz, I invite you to step back and ask a question most artists never take the time to ask: if you were starting fresh today, would you build it this way? That one question can change everything.
Stop being busy, start being strategic (258)
There’s a difference between working in your art business and working on it, and most artists spend almost all of their time on one of them.
This episode breaks down what each mode looks like, why the balance matters, and what it actually looks like to step back and think strategically rather than just execute.
