Art Career

Do you dream of being a full-time artist? This friendly, practical guide shows you how to make your dream a reality, with expert advice on everything from writing a business plan to pricing your work and raising your profile as an artist. Learn how to start taking commissions and ensure your long-term success.

The Complete Strategy Collection, a compilation of ancient and historical philosophies, will increase your knowledge of strategy, conflict, and adversity throughout the ages, giving you valuable insight into the past while opening a window to the future. Although each of the works can be considered a manual or diagram for war or engaging in physical combat, the life skills embodied in each can be adapted to everyday life in modern society. Listen and learn how you, too, can take advantage of the strategies of war.

Learn how today’s artists survive, exhibit, and earn money, without selling out! This book explains how to be a professional artist and new methods to define and realize what success means. Whether you’re a beginner, a student, or a career artist looking to be in the best museum shows, this book provides ways of advancing your plans on any level. Making It in the Art World is an invaluable resource for artists at every stage, offering readers a plethora of strategies and helpful tips to plan and execute a successful artistic career.

Are you ready to turn your creative passion into a thriving business? Artpreneur: The Ultimate Guide to Building a Successful Art Business is the essential roadmap for artists who want to make a living doing what they love. Whether you're a painter, illustrator, sculptor, or digital artist, this book equips you with the strategies and tools you need to succeed in today's competitive art market. Inside, you'll learn how to: Build a professional brand that sets your art apart and attracts loyal customers. Price your artwork confidently and fairly without undervaluing your talent. Master ...

Are you an artist struggling to figure out the "business" of being an artist? Did you go to college or grad school to refine your talent but have a hard time getting your work seen or recognized in the art world? Are you living sale to sale, or seeking a stable financial foundation from which to build upon? Top gallery owner, art consultant, coach, and author, Bridgette Mayer, shares her own hard-earned and learned tips, tricks, mindsets, and skills to get ahead in her new book, Art MBA: The Life-Changing Guide to Creating a Successful Art Career.

Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is a Freakonomics approach to the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world. Why were record prices achieved at auction for works by 131 contemporary artists in 2006 alone, with astonishing new heights reached in 2007? Don Thompson explores the money, lust, and self-aggrandizement of the art world in an attempt to determine what makes a particular work valuable while others are ignored.

Read by the author. A step-by-step guide for creatives to transform your passion into a profitable business. Whether you’re a musician, photographer, painter, writer, dancer, singer, or any other creative with aspirations of making a living from your art, this is the perfect time to turn your...

Whether you are starting a career for the first time, ready to break free from an occupation that feels unsuitable for you, or trying to improve your current workplace experience, Career Dharma: The Natural Art of Work can help. The guidance system presented in this book presents a coherent framework based on ancient wisdom while successfully addressing the challenges in today's world.

You don't have to starve to be an artist. Build a career doing what you love. In this practical guide, professional artist Lisa Congdon reveals the many ways you can earn a living by making art - through illustration, licensing, fine art sales, print sales, teaching, and beyond. Including industry advice from such successful art-world pros as Nikki McClure, Mark Hearld, Paula Scher, and more, Art, Inc. will equip you with the tools - and the confidence - to turn your passion into a profitable business.

Choose Hard, Live Easy strips away the syrupy delusions of modern self-help to reveal the raw mechanics of how you can engineer the amazing life you've always wanted.

In this revised and updated edition, Bhandari and Melber show artists how to tackle a host of new challenges. How do you diversify income streams to sustain a healthy art practice? How can you find an alternative to the gallery system? How do you review a license agreement? What are digital marketing best practices? An important resource for gallerists, dealers, art consultants, artist-oriented organizations, and artists alike, Art/Work is the resource that all creative entrepreneurs in the art world turn to for advice.

In a world desperate for a glimpse of authenticity, Nobody Knows What They're Doing is a breath of fresh air that reveals the truths hiding between the lines of Instagram-friendly aphorisms and behind the words of the most inspirational TED talks. An honest look at the reality of creativity and the joy and difficulty of crafting good (and bad) art, this book is a must-listen for every exhausted creative, every starry-eyed dreamer, and every artist who is trying to make their way in the world - and keep a roof over their head while they do it. 

Brought to you by Penguin. From the family dinner table to the boardroom, any meeting of minds is inevitably going to lead to a debate, an argument, even a fight. While these conflicts are often perceived negatively – as something to be avoided or quickly defused – they can be incredible...

Inspiration is for amateurs. I’m a professional artist: I wake up every day and go to work. This is the mindset that transformed Daniel Arsham from a student scraping by in his Brooklyn studio into one of the most sought-after artists of his generation. In Future Relic, he breaks through the...

The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.

The Complete Book of Five Rings is an authoritative version of Musashi's classic The Book of Five Rings, translated and annotated by a modern martial arts master, Kenji Tokitsu. Tokitsu has spent most of his life researching the legendary samurai swordsman and his works, and in this book he illuminates this seminal text, along with several other works by Musashi.

The Art of Selling to the Affluent, 2nd Edition offers a detailed landscape of today's affluent. Put yourself ahead of the competition by knowing how the recession has affected purchasing behavior and where the opportunities are moving forward.

#1 New York Times Bestseller More than 10 million Copies Sold In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people. For decades, we’ve been told...

​Diane von Furstenberg, entrepreneur and philanthropist, presents her words to live by. In an easy-to-navigate A-Z dictionary format, designed to be browsed or listened to as a whole, Own It offers listeners Diane’s well-earned wisdom for enjoying both personal and professional growth at any age.

This powerful follow-up to How to Master the Art of Selling—with over 2 million copies sold—takes your selling capabilities to the next level. Perfect for evolving sales professionals, it provides the refined tools you need to stay mentally resilient, communicate with impact, and read the room like a pro.