Career Management for Artists : A Practical Guide to Representation and Sustainability for Your Studio Practice

This book supports emerging, mid-career and experienced artists, encouraging them to reconsider standard definitions of what it means to be a successful artist. Both pragmatic and motivational, Stacy Miller addresses what it means to have a successful long-term career in the arts, taking stock of the current landscape in the art world, introducing new venues in the field, reflecting on issues of social media and exhibition, and ultimately encouraging artists to take action in order to move their goals forward and take control of their professional lives. The book is woven throughout with interviews from internationally-based artists who have negotiated alternative paths to success.

Both pragmatic and motivational, this book addresses what it means to have a successful long-term career in the arts, taking stock of the current landscape of the art world, introducing new venues in the field, reflecting on issues of social media and exhibition, and ultimately encouraging artists to take control of their professional lives.

Weaving conversations from a range of internationally based artists who have negotiated alternative paths to success, lauded artist and teacher Stacy Miller provides a practical, lively reflection on what it takes to be an artist in our new global landscape. This book covers practical needs, different approaches, and philosophical ways of creating a life and career in the arts. It lays out conventional and nonconventional means to representation, describes being an entrepreneur versus funding independent creative projects, and examines social media for the potential powerhouse it is. Most importantly, it gives artists a way to think about being a professional and the different paths to a successful career in the arts.

Perfect for emerging, mid-career, and experienced artists, this book encourages readers to redefine personal success and to act locally, nationally, and internationally in an expanding art world.