Download or read book Artists Are Entrepreneurs Crucial Skills for the Entrepreneurial Success of Fine Artists written by Karie Okie and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artists, like entrepreneurs, have a product or idea to sell, and they need to get out into the marketplace. To do this, artists need (at the very least) basic business skills and a willingness to approach selling art as any entrepreneur would. This book will answer such questions as: ▪ Can an artist make a living outside of a traditional business model (galleries, etc.)? ▪ What are the business and entrepreneurial skills that an artist or creative person needs to succeed? ▪ What kind of partnership is essential for an artist? ▪ What are the lessons learned in establishing a non-traditional art-related business model? ▪ Are there any free marketing tools that can help jumpstart a business and are relevant for this generation?
Download or read book The Difficulty of Practising Fine Artists in Making a Living written by Marco Thom and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study identifies six key reasons explaining the social phenomenon that many practising fine artists find it so difficult to make a living in the arts. Due to a marked paucity of research explaining this social phenomenon, the study at hand investigates the internal factors related to artists' personality, motivation, and skills as well as various external factors influencing artists' working and business environment by applying two acknowledged analysis tools in strategic business management. The literature findings highlight four external threat factors mainly responsible for a very challenging working and business environment affecting practising fine artists' chances of professional success. Consequently, two internal factors - notably artists' motivation and ambition to conduct business and a living in the arts as well as their developed skills - turn out to be key factors to successfully deal with these external threat factors. In this context, three research aims related to practising artists' professional education and preparation arise: the identification of crucial skills to successfully make a living in the arts as practising artists, the status of their professional education at higher education institutions (HEIs), and the capability of arts incubators as alternative education programmes to prepare large numbers of practising fine artists for professional success. The approach to investigation is exploratory and inductive with a cross-sectional survey strategy. To identify the crucial skills for professional success in the arts, surveys of up to 219 fine art lecturers, 168 fine art undergraduates, and 149 commercial galleries are conducted. To report on the status of fine artists' educational preparation, 87 undergraduate degree programmes, 55 post-graduate programmes, and 46 extracurricular training offerings at HEIs are investigated. The study focuses mainly on the UK and Germany. These countries are selected due to their significantly different market sizes and reputation for the purpose of identifying differences in market challenges and professional preparations faced by fine artists. To analyse arts incubators' capability in preparing large numbers of practising fine artists for a professional career, 92 arts incubation programmes around the globe are analysed and nine structured interviews with practising fine artists are conducted. The investigation of the crucial skills for fine artists' professional success highlights in particular the development of an entrepreneurial mindset as well as of seven skills. Research on arts education shows evidence that fine art graduates are hardly equipped with this skillset and mindset due to HEIs' lack of focus on the professional careers of practising artists. The analysis of arts incubation programmes illustrates serious limitations in supporting larger numbers of practising fine artists in their professional endeavours. The research findings stimulate the discussion in, and contribute to, knowledge in the fields of artists' professional preparation, arts entrepreneurship, and the redesigning of fine art curriculum to purposefully prepare fine art graduates for an entrepreneurial and professional career as practising artists.
Download or read book The Artist Entrepreneur written by Ronald C. McCurdy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-first-century art world offers performers and professionals an unrivaled variety of opportunities, but also requires a never-before-seen investment in skills beyond artistic talent. Today’s artists must build sustainable success in this new arts economy through collaborative big-idea thinking that celebrates a continual engagement in creative process. Presenting creativity as a process with unlimited applications, The Artist Entrepreneur empowers young artists to step into the new arts landscape and build their own careers. Along the way, the book demystifies essential business skills from self-promotion, branding, touring, and intellectual property exploitation to contracts, revenue sources, and bookkeeping. Addressing students from across the artistic spectrum, this book offers practical exercises to develop individual skills while empowering a new generation of artist entrepreneurs with the promise of a new arts economy.
Download or read book The Fine Art of Success written by Jamie Anderson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You've read about Jack Welch, Lou Gerstner and Steve Jobs - but what can you learn about business from van Gogh and Picasso? The Fine Art of Success shows why you should look to pop-stars like Madonna or artists like Damian Hirst for guidance on innovation, competitive advantage, leadership, and a host of other business issues. Managers, marketing professionals, and students will see how these creative artists can help their organizations. Chapters include Madonna - Strategy at the dance floor; Damian Hirst - The shark is dead/How to build yourself a new market; Beuys – Understanding creativity, is every manager an artist; Picasso – Art lessons for global managers; Koons – Made in Heaven produced on eart; and Paik – Global Groove, innovation through juxtaposition. With controversial ideas, fascinating facts and memorable examples, The Fine Art of Success delivers business lessons that you'll be eager to apply.
Download or read book The Art of Enterprise written by Nathan Richardson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship in Design explores the form and nature of entrepreneurship in a range of creative disciplines. It explores the complex ecology of activities that enable design, entrepreneurship, and alternative methods of practice within a creative practice, and for the benefit and engagement of society. The book is structured in four thematic sections: the Alpha Room, Beta Portal, Gamma Field, and Delta State. Within each section, the chapters address such topics as experience, mindset, activity, collaboration, and value. In that sense, The Art of Enterprise is composed of the way in which one experiences, thinks about, works, collaborates, and creates value in the mind, studio, prototype, and marketplace. It includes a curated selection of contemporary practices engaged in entrepreneurship around the world and interviews from leading entrepreneurs and design professionals capturing advice and inspiration. With an open-ended set of activities, charts, worksheets, and discussion questions, The Art of Enterprise fosters entrepreneurial thinking in formative projects and practices for students, academics, and professionals.
Download or read book The entrepreneurial Artist Versus The artistic Entrepreneur written by Maria-Eugenia Beirer and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art for art's sake is all well and good, but everyone has bills to pay. For many artists, maintaining artistic integrity while earning a steady paycheck is an enormous challenge. Still, there are ways your creative endeavors could sustain you financially as well as intellectually. The "entrepreneurial-Artist" versus the "artistic-Entrepreneur" is a scholarly but approachable exploration of the similarities between entrepreneurs and artists and other creative people such as musicians and architects. You'll be pleased to know that there's a lot more overlap than you might think. Here's a quick look at what you'll find within these pages: An exploration of what it means to be an artist in the twenty-first century A discussion of the Internet's effect on art and business A detailed look at the relationship between creativity and business acumen Apt predictions for the economy of the future Too many artists give up on their dreams because they're not commercially viable. After reading this helpful guide by author Maria-Eugenia Beirer, you will better understand the artist's role in the marketplace. Better yet, you'll learn how the same skills and traits that make you a good artist can help you succeed in marketing your works.
Download or read book Arts Entrepreneurship written by Richard Andrews and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arts Entrepreneurship: Creating a New Venture in the Arts provides the essential tools, techniques, and concepts needed to invent, launch, and sustain a business in the creative sector. Building on the reader’s artistic talents and interests, the book provides a practical, action-oriented introduction to the business of art, focusing on product design, organizational planning and assessment, customer identification and marketing, fundraising, legal issues, money management, cultural policy, and career development. It also offers examples, exercises, and references that guide entrepreneurs through the key stages of concept creation, business development, and growth. Special attention is paid to topics such as cultural ventures seeking social impact, the emergence of creative placemaking, the opportunities afforded by novel corporate forms, and the role of contemporary technologies in marketing, fundraising, and operations. A hands-on guide to entrepreneurial success, this book is a valuable resource for students of Arts Entrepreneurship programs, courses, and workshops, as well as for early-stage business founders in the creative sector looking for guidance on how to create and sustain their own successful venture.
Download or read book The Entrepreneurial Artist written by Aaron P. Dworkin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Entrepreneurial Artist: Lessons from Highly Successful Creatives, Aaron Dworkin offers an engaging, practical guide to achieving artistic fulfillment, both personally and professionally. Based on the accomplishments of Shakespeare, Mozart, and several contemporary creatives, these lessons will help you realize your goals—no matter your medium. Among those Dworkin personally interviewed for this book are Emmy-winning actor Jeff Daniels, Tony-award winning choreographer Bill T. Jones, Grammy award-winning musician Wynton Marsalis, and Pulitzer Prize winner Lin-Manuel Miranda, among others. The stories of these twelve remarkable individuals come alive with lessons of love, loss, despair, sacrifice, perseverance, and triumph. Some of the artist-entrepreneur takeaways explored in this book include: Build partnerships—with peers, patrons, and sponsors Embrace diversity Expand your focus Allow your work to mature Whether one is an aspiring student artist in search of practical tools to build a sustainable career, or a veteran seeking reinvention, The Entrepreneurial Artist offers insights—well-tested, unusual, or innovative—that are meaningful for every kind of creative.
Download or read book Arts and Entrepreneurship written by J. Mark Munoz and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in entrepreneurship in the arts has grown in recent years. This book brought together experts and thought leaders from around the world to uncover business success strategies for individuals engaged in the arts worldwide.
Download or read book Entrepreneurship in the Arts written by Bonita M. Kolb and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need for artists, musicians, actors, singers, designers and other creative individuals to understand basic business concepts so they can successfully pursue their chosen creative profession has only grown since the publication of this textbook, now in its third edition. This popular book teaches business concepts in a way that is relevant to the way that creative students learn. Providing an understanding of the fundamental skills of entrepreneurship, this book enables creatives to launch new businesses, run for‐profit creative industries or manage nonprofit cultural organizations. The book leads the student through the entrepreneurial process starting with finding the right customers to pricing, distribution and promotion. This latest edition has been updated to account for significant changes in the creative industries that have been accelerated by the use of AI in the production of creative products, the challenge of pricing products within a range acceptable to consumers while accounting for the rising cost of production and the increasing need to use social listening skills and technology as a basis of consumer research. Weaving practical advice from successful creatives with pedagogical features such as "Questions to Consider," "Tasks to Complete" and "Visualization Exercises," this textbook continues to be essential reading for creative students.
Download or read book Art Entrepreneurship written by Mikael Scherdin and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering book explores the connections between art and artistic processes and entrepreneurship. The authors expertly identify several areas and issues where research on art and artistic processes can inform and develop the traditional field of entrepreneurship research.
Download or read book Entrepreneurship for the Creative and Cultural Industries written by Bonita M. Kolb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artists, musicians, actors, singers, designers and other creative individuals need to understand basic business concepts if they are to successfully pursue their chosen artistic profession. These skills have historically not been taught to creative students, which leaves them unprepared to make a living from their artistic efforts. Entrepreneurship for the Creative and Cultural Industries will teach the basics of business in a way that is relevant to the challenges of running a small business marketing a creative product. Whether it is understanding the basics of business language, appreciating the crucial importance of finance, or using social media marketing, this innovative textbook covers the entrepreneurial skills required to succeed in the creative sector. Including advice from artists who have turned their idea into a profitable business and worksheets that can be combined into a simple business plan, Kolb helps non-business-minded creatives to understand everything they need to succeed in the increasingly competitive creative economy. This textbook is essential reading for non-business students who are looking to understand the business side of the creative sector, while its practical style will also suit recent graduates in these industries.
Download or read book Just Get Out There written by Gilli Moon and published by Warrior Girl Music. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GILLI MOON, Author, Artist, singer/songwriter, record label owner, certified professional coach and “Artist Entrepreneur”, takes you on an enriching journey of artistic and professional discovery with her second book JUST GET OUT THERE, (her first book is I AM A Professional Artist – the Key To Survival and Success In The World of the Arts). JUST GET OUT THERE is the Artist's bible to achieving abundance, self-empowerment and professional success as an Artist entrepreneur. 300+ pages filled with in-depth tips, tools, steps and resources on getting out there as an Artist, all the while achieving personal, financial and professional success and joy. JUST GET OUT THERE covers topics such as defining your uniqueness; building your dream and creating a plan around your goals; balancing the art with the 'business' through time management and prioritization techniques; fundamentals in producing, releasing, marketing, promotion, performing and touring; using the Internet; and a plethora of in-depth tips, tools, steps and resources on getting out there as an Artist. Throughout this book, Gilli is guiding you, asking you questions, giving you exercises, and making you think and act the way a strong business savvy Artist should, leading you to the Artist you ultimately want to become. JUST GET OUT THERE provides Artists inspiration: a sense of hope and assurance through anecdotal stories (some about Gilli's personal life), motivational messages and real, practical, tried and tested strategies. Ultimately it's about enjoying the journey along your path to creative success.More info at www.justgetoutthere.net
Download or read book The Artist Enterprise in the Digital Age written by Xavier Greffe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a monograph of cultural economics of a new concept, artist–enterprises. It explores various dimensions that artists embody, i.e., aesthetic, critical, messianic, and economic ones, and screens the multiple challenges faced by the artist–enterprises in terms of pricing, funding, and networking in the Digital Age. It shows how these artist–enterprises are at the core of the contemporary creative industries. Even when they are on their own, artists have to demonstrate or manage a variety of skills, sign contracts both in the early and later stages of their activities, and also maintain relationships and networks that enable them to attain their artistic and economic goals. They are no longer simply entrepreneurs managing their own skills but are the enterprises themselves. The artist–enterprises thus find themselves at the confluence of two dynamics of production—artistic and economic: artistic because they invent new expressions and meanings; and economic because these expressions must be supported by monetary values on the market. The artistic dynamic is part of a long process of artistic enhancement and only an artist can say whether it has reached the point of presentation or equilibrium. The economic dynamic is dependent on the constant endorsement of artists' works by the market to ensure their survival as artist–enterprises. The tension created by this disparity is further aggravated by another tension: the need to overcome a number of risks so that artist–enterprises can progress. This book will be of special interest to artists, managers, students, professionals, and researchers in the fields of the arts, creativity, economics, and development. The author is Emeritus Professor at the University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Download or read book I Am a Professional Artist written by Gilli Moon and published by Warrior Girl Music. This book was released on 2002 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A professional artist and motivational speaker offers artists who have chosen the professional path advice, encouragement, and some hard truths. (Careers/ Jobs)
Download or read book How to be a Successful Entrepreneur Selling your Art written by J.D. Rockefeller and published by J.D. Rockefeller. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An artist doesn't need to starve for their passion. Outdoor shows, brick and mortar locations, the internet and the availability of more venues has made it easier for creative entrepreneurs to showcase and sell their work. Selling artwork is, however, a competitive endeavor, and that has forced artists to produce beautiful and quality work that is competitively priced. To be successful with your ambition, you need to crunch the numbers, gradually build your business and create sales in low-cost venues before you move on to bigger arenas.Selling artwork or anything for that matter is an important business skill. Not everybody possesses the gift or talent to venture into the life of selling. However with this in mind, we should at least be able to sell one thing: and that's ourselves. For an entrepreneur, your ability to convince potential buyers that you are someone capable of doing business with is vital for success. There's no secret between the connection of art and money. A shocking idea is one that states that no artist is destined for starvation and poverty. If you are a passionate and creative artist, you can make some good money from your work, feel great about it and generate a massive following of supporters for your career. And that's true! You may ask yourself why so many artists falter in the quest to make a living from art? The positive thing however is that many artists fail simply not because they don't have the creativity or talent to produce great work, but rather because they haven't been adequately trained to represent themselves properly to build customer bases and actually sell their amazing work. If you look at it this way, the olden day way of generating fame and fortune as an artist was about receiving favors of gatekeepers. Starting with patronage systems in Europe all the way to museums and galleries of our modern days. The olden way was simply about groveling for endorsements for outsiders, who at the time collected massive percentages of what artists earned in exchange for representation. This was of course very effective for the gatekeepers. Although the olden day method still works for a fewer number of artists, the drawback is its zero-sum game, which makes it hard to break in. The good thing is that there are more clear alternatives.
Download or read book The Death of the Artist written by William Deresiewicz and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply researched warning about how the digital economy threatens artists' lives and work—the music, writing, and visual art that sustain our souls and societies—from an award-winning essayist and critic There are two stories you hear about earning a living as an artist in the digital age. One comes from Silicon Valley. There's never been a better time to be an artist, it goes. If you've got a laptop, you've got a recording studio. If you've got an iPhone, you've got a movie camera. And if production is cheap, distribution is free: it's called the Internet. Everyone's an artist; just tap your creativity and put your stuff out there. The other comes from artists themselves. Sure, it goes, you can put your stuff out there, but who's going to pay you for it? Everyone is not an artist. Making art takes years of dedication, and that requires a means of support. If things don't change, a lot of art will cease to be sustainable. So which account is true? Since people are still making a living as artists today, how are they managing to do it? William Deresiewicz, a leading critic of the arts and of contemporary culture, set out to answer those questions. Based on interviews with artists of all kinds, The Death of the Artist argues that we are in the midst of an epochal transformation. If artists were artisans in the Renaissance, bohemians in the nineteenth century, and professionals in the twentieth, a new paradigm is emerging in the digital age, one that is changing our fundamental ideas about the nature of art and the role of the artist in society.
