More about The Successful Artist’s Career Guide: Finding Your Way in the Business of Art:

Through artist interviews, personal stories, self-reflective worksheets and practical information, Margaret Peot (author of Inkblot: Drip, Splat and Squish Your Way to Creativity and Make Your Mark: Explore Your Creativity and Discover Your Inner Artist, and of the upcoming Alternative Art Journals: Explore Innovative Approaches to Collecting Your Creativity) offers advice to anyone who has decided to embrace life as a visual artist.

 

As artists, we often define ourselves first as Artists, and then hope we’ll be able to work out how to make a living. But, “making a living” doesn’t just refer to what you choose to do to make money. It is about you as a whole person: Making choices about how you want to live, spend your leisure hours, in what way you wish to contribute to your community. It will be easier to maintain a life making art if your art and life are not separate things. You can hold the life you wish for in your hands and shape it with the same care and attention to this as you do to making your art.

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The Successful Artist’s Career Guide, geared to both young artists starting out to experienced artists looking to make a career out of making art, will provide information, advice, opportunity for self reflection to help the reader find their best path as artists:

 CHAPTER 1: WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO AND WHERE DO YOU WANT TO LIVE?  

Tap your dreams and inspiration, and begin shaping your life as a working artist with these practical and engaging tools.

CHAPTER 2: WHAT WILL BE YOUR EXPERTISE? 

Discover your own unique potential by defining where the Artist and the Artisan in you meet.

CHAPTER 3: WHAT IS YOUR ART WORTH?

Bidding jobs and pricing your work, from freelancing to full-time.

CHAPTER 4: PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS

A closer look at artists in the workforce and the business of art, health insurance, legal and tax advice.

CHAPTER 5: PROMOTING YOURSELF

How your portfolio, common sense, and creativity all come together in effective marketing.

CHAPTER 6: INTERESTING ART JOBS

Eighty-Eight art-making paths for you to compare and consider.

CHAPTER 7: GETTING TO WORK

Finding a studio or making one at home, organizing your time and resources, and ensuring that you continue to make art.

Each chapter will contain interviews from artists who make their living as artists, along with examples of their work.

Peot’s book, The Successful Artist’s Career Guide, will help the reader be as proactive and ambitious in planning their lives as they are in planning their own artwork.

 

FOR RELEASE by F&W Publishing’s North Light Books

March 1, 2012

The Successful Artist’s Career Guide:

Finding Your Way in the Business of Art

By Margaret Peot

ISBN: 978-1-4403-0930-4

Price: $24.95 / CAN $25.95

For more information:

Margaret Peot, 646-228-5043

Email: margaretannpeot@verizon.net