“I used to have a band,” he told me. He had played lead guitar and sang. It was the 1980s, and he worked hard, touring...
Art is more than just pretty pictures. The best art explores ideas, and ideas need time to develop and to grow. In fact, they demand...
Any artist worth his or her salt is part of a larger arts community. Other artists are not your competition; other artists are your colleagues—and,...
by Meagan J. Meehan Socrates Marquez is a Dominican born, self-taught and artist who was presented with a ArtExpo New York SOLO award. Socrates is...
Maximizing trade sales to broaden your distribution and give you more time to create art The traditional way of selling art through brick-and-mortar galleries works....
Emerging artists with little sales and exhibition experience often struggle to find doors that will open. It’s difficult to break into the art business! In...
–By Peri Schwartz Back in 1999, when I was 25 years into my career, a good friend came to visit me at my studio. I...
In business school, they talk about The 6 Stages of Entrepreneurship. But in art school, they don’t even use the word entrepreneur. They should. Artists...
I was taking a week-long Deep Writing workshop with the extraordinary creativity coach Dr. Eric Maisel. I’ve been writing for a long time now, so...
So you’ve taken the jump and chosen to be an artist. Now what? Where’s the fabulous gallery opening in New York City? Where are the...