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

A comprehensive guide for both emerging and mid-career artists to pursue a career in the visual arts.

Providing real-life examples, illustrations, and step-by-step exercises, Battenfield offers readily applicable advice on all aspects of the job. Along with tips on planning and assessment, she presents strategies for self-management, including marketing, online promotion, building professional relationships, grant writing, and portfolio development.

Each chapter ends with an insightful "Reality Check"interview, featuring advice and useful information from high-profile artists and professionals.

The result is an inspiring, experiential guide brimming with field-tested techniques that readers can easily apply to their own career.

• Art/Work - Revised & Updated: Everything You Need to Know (and Do) As You Pursue Your Art Career
• Art-Write: The Writing Guide for Visual Artists
• Art, Inc.: The Essential Guide for Building Your Career as an Artist
• Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays by 40 Working Artists
• Taking the Leap: Building a Career as a Visual Artist (The Insider's Guide to Exhibiting and Selling Your Art)
• Seven Days in the Art World
• How to Sell Your Art Online: Live a Successful Creative Life on Your Own Terms
• Smartist Guide: Essential Art Career Tips For Emerging Artists
• Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
• The Artist's Guide to Grant Writing: How to Find Funds and Write Foolproof Proposals for the Visual, Literary, and Performing Artist