Let’s say you’ve got your event listed in all the newspaper calendars (which you learned how to do at http://createworklive.com/2008/10/15/getting-in-print-local-listings/). But now you think it deserves a bit more print than a teeny mention in 6-point type. You want an article about it. Maybe even a picture. After all, newspapers and magazines are full of articles about just such [...]
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Getting in Print: Public Relations
Posted in Business Issues, Marketing, tagged public relations on October 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Artist-Teacher: Studio Policies
Posted in Business Issues, Teaching, tagged studio policy on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I started teaching, some of the first advice I got from other teachers was to implement a “studio policy.” I’d never heard of a studio policy, and at first it seemed a little unnecessary: Like everyone else, I started with only a few students. It seemed ridiculous to implement and enforce a rigid policy when in [...]
The Artist-Teacher: Getting the Job
Posted in Business Issues, Teaching, tagged Teaching on October 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So, how do you get a teaching gig? First of all, have a clear idea of which kids of gigs you want to go after: A school, private teaching, community college, whatever. Imagine your ideal situation: Would you do your creative work in the morning? Or are you a performer who needs to work nights? When [...]
Essential Skills for Artists: Public Speaking
Posted in Business Issues, Freelancing, Performing, tagged public speaking on September 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Artists seem to fall into one of two categories: Either we are at home in front of the footlights, flirting with interviewers and seducing audiences, or we are nervous wrecks, cowering in the back of the room hoping no one will call on us. Some of us are both: I am completely comfortable giving a prepared talk to an audience [...]
Essential Skills for Artists: Web Design
Posted in Business Issues, Freelancing, Internet Issues, tagged web design on September 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
First a disclaimer: We’re not really talking about web design here. We’re talking about something much more simple: Getting your stuff on the web, using resources that are readily available and inexpensive. It’s easy to be intimidated: professional web design can be a complex art form, incorporating visual design elements like type, color selection, text blocks, widgets, pictures, charts, and [...]
Essential Skills for Artists: Writing
Posted in Business Issues, Freelancing, Writing on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Writing is dead,” A business major once told me. “Who cares? I’ll just have my secretary do it.” Fast forward a few years: “I was wrong. I wish I knew how to write better. We don’t even HAVE secretaries anymore.” Yes, IMing and text messaging have created a new sub-language. But computers have not led us [...]
Essential Skills for Artists: Intro
Posted in Business Issues, Freelancing, tagged essential skills for artists on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You know the stereotype of the artist: We musicians, painters, or writers are locked away in our garrets, obsessively making music, slapping paint on a canvas, or struggling to come up with the perfect metaphor. Sometimes I WISH that’s all we had to do! As we all learn, all too soon, creating our art is only part of the equation [...]
Renegade Writer Classes
Posted in Business Issues, Writing, tagged renegade writer, writing classes on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
How exactly do you get that first magazine assignment? Get paid to travel the world? Get an agent to look at your book proposal? If you’re a specialist in another field, or another art, can you really get someone to publish you? If you’re wondering, check out this series of classes, offered by the Renegade Writer. I’ve [...]
Myth of the Starving Artist?
Posted in Business Issues, Creative Communities, Freelancing, tagged NEA economic data, starving artist on September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Over the weekend, I was at a reunion for a summer camp I used to go to, and inevitably, there was a lot of updating of information: where people had ended up, who had kids (and grand-kids, even), who still was in touch with whom, and what work people were doing. “I’m a writer and a music teacher and a piano player” [...]
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