Starting Your Career as an Artist

A Guide to Launching a Creative Life

Angie Wojak, Stacy Miller

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Allworth Press,U.S.
11 April 2023

Art: financial aspects

An integral resource for aspiring artists, this third edition updates key pieces of the classicStarting Your Career as an Artist.

In this comprehensive manual, veteran art career professionals Angie Wojak and Stacy Miller show aspiring artists how to evaluate their goals and create a plan of action to advance their professional careers, and use their talents to build productive lives in the art world. In addition, the book includes insightful interviews with professional artists and well-known players in the art scene. The third edition features achapter on social media and includes interviews with artists, museum professionals, and educators, as well as new chapters onhow to navigate thepost-pandemic art world.

All chapters cover topics essential to the emerging artist, such as:

Using social media to advance your practice

Health and safety for artists

Artist's resumes and CVs

Finding alternative exhibition venues

Building community through networking

Collaborating and finding mentors

Refining career aspirations

This invaluable resource is sure to encourage and inspire artists to create their own opportunities as they learn how the creativity that occurs inside the studio can be applied to developing a successful career in the art world.

Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.

By: Angie Wojak, Stacy Miller
Imprint: Allworth Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 3rd Edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 392g
ISBN: 9781621537977
ISBN 10: 1621537978
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 11 April 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Angie Wojak is the executive director of External Relationsat the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Wojak has also served as the director of career services at Columbia University's School of the Arts and Parsons the New School for Design. She has lectured on art and design career topics at universities and conferences including Cannes Lions International, Harvard, and the Pratt Institute. She lives in New York City with her husband. Stacy Miller has worked as the director of research and professional development at the College Art Association as well as the director of art and design education at Parsons the New School for Design. She teaches in the photography department at Parsons and is creating a web-based start-up for artists to help advocate for, design with, and discuss how their creative lives can flourish. She lives in New Rochelle, New York.

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A Guide to Launching a Creative Life

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