You Are in Charge of Your Art Career! Lori McNee,Artist/blogger, art tips, quote junkie, poetic painter, novice photographer, friend to birds and animals, busy mom living a healthy mountain life! www.finearttips.com By guest author/artist advisor: Aletta de Wal Source: Lori McNee / www.finearttips.com Gone are the days of art professionals taking care of you. We are each responsible for our own lives and our own choices as artists. The sooner you learn to take control of your art career, the better. Sometimes it is just a matter of looking at things you already know, and assessing this information in an organized manner. Other times, you need to learn from the experience of artists who have gone before you, so that you can cut through the chaos and complexity to succeed more quickly at making a living making art. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, most galleries took artists under their wing, developed their careers and handled most or all of the aspects of showing and selling. For those services, they expected loyalty and took a small commission on sales. Many artists still want the illusion of security offered by representation (and some artists still find it!). Times have changed….....As the world embraced an entrepreneurial and individualistic approach to commerce, the art world followed. Now galleries come and go, commissions are larger and dealers do less for you. You Must Make Your Own Career Decisions! Many artists still believe that all they have to do is create their art and success will follow. You need to operate an art business like any other small business. There are now many sources of help for artists and art collectors. They are called art professionals. Some of their services overlap but most have special talents and distinct services: Art Advisors purchase or lease art for private collectors: Art Consultants purchase or lease art for corporations, health-care facilities and other organizations in the public and private sector: Art Curators advise private collectors and museums on acquisitions and loans of art: Artist Representatives are private dealers who represent artists: Gallery Dealers are retail art dealers who present quality works of art and guarantee authenticity and archival quality: Artists who want to build a successful art business successful have to start by taking a hard look at what they want, why they want it. Then they must decide what it will take to get there. Success doesn’t just happen while you are sitting around thinking about it. Success is not accidental. It is intentional and based on action. Failure for artists often happens when they interpret common art career events such as lack of sales, not winning awards or not being accepted by galleries as personal or artistic rejection or they do not build resilience or learn from their experiences. Attitude is the key to the ease of your career development. Your attitude about your business is possibly the strongest influence on your level of success as an artist. If you are totally committed (and most artists are), you can learn what you need to learn to have the career you wish. Aletta de Wal http://www.artistcareertraining.com Artist Advisor Artist Career TrainingIf you would like to comment, login. Current Comments:
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