
Meet the course creator and explore seven simple statements guiding artists, including that the art world is a business, community is key, and goals plus context provide direction.
Download the seven statements workbook from the course dashboard, under section 1 introduction, then print or type into the pages for easy practice.
See the art world as a business and stay professional to create opportunities. Keep materials organized, meet deadlines, respond promptly, and separate the personal from the professional to improve success.
Artists drive the art world's business, and recognizing their central role boosts confidence, informs professional choices, and inspires proactive opportunities like inviting curators for studio visits.
Build a thriving art career by developing a strong community of artists, galleries, curators, and peers, leveraging online and real-world connections, recommendations, and feedback to access opportunities and exhibitions.
Follow the rapidly changing art world by staying informed, exploring new technologies, and chasing opportunities through a six week experiment, blogs, newsletters, and magazines.
Set goals and understand your context in the art world to guide decisions, align actions with your vision, and forge a path that fits your talents and values.
Cultivate adaptability by staying open to change as circumstances shift and personal values evolve, or opportunities arise. Set baseline goals and consider all possibilities.
Prioritize career development by embracing no shortcuts, committing to hard work and patience, and managing time to build your art career.
Explore the seven simple statements successful artists live by and learn to apply them by staying professional, leveraging community, clarifying goals, adapting to change, and weekly career development.
Ever wonder why some artists succeed financially and others struggle to build a career? Why some artists seems connected, happy, and prospering while others labor in the studio unable to create and/or get their art into the world. What could successful artists possibly know that’s giving them an edge? I wondered myself. So, I asked.
I polled a wide range of fine artists who are earning a living and reaching their goals, along with arts professionals – curators, art dealers, gallery owners - who work closely with successful artists. I considered and distilled their responses, along with twenty years of my own experience and observations, and a clear list of "7 simple statements successful artists live by" emerged.
Each section in this course describes a statement successful artists live by, outlines why its valuable and offers suggestions for how you can implement it into your own life immediately and ongoing to benefit and bolster your life and fine art career. The accompanying workbook includes questionnaires and worksheets to help you clarify, take action and keep track of your progress ongoing.
Whether this is all new information or a new way to look at familiar concepts, you'll complete this course armed with inspiration and tangible to do's to give your life and career development efforts a healthy jolt.