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The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love
Paperback
ISBN13: 9780306816529
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
Published: Jun 1 2009
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.50
Height: 0.90 Width: 7.40 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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 Checkinterview, 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.
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