“There is a shame around making money off of swag or reproductions or something else that isn’t art—but that is making money off of art.”
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Digital Art Market Innovations: How to Engage Online and Off
Elizabeth Corkery is an installation artist and CHF Business Accelerator Fellow (2015-2016). Elizabeth, in conversation with CHF’s editorial coordinator, discusses the development of online art sales, and strategies that are …
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Fail Better – October 2017 newsletter
Dear Friends: This month’s Thriving Artist Podcast is full of advice to artists on the right ways to work and engage with museums: Seth Hopkins breaks down how “we can make the market bigger …
How to Collaborate with Museums – Seth Hopkins
“Art is a cool business—it’s the only one I know where the customer often buys dinner.”
Artist Federation Launching
Soft launch of The Artist Federation, an artist-organized, CHF-sponsored professional–entrepreneurial skills and collaboration network for artists is underway. Provisional chapters are being formed by artists in North Carolina (Crystal Coast chapter), California …
Maria Brophy Podcast Tops Charts
The Thriving Artist Podcast has seen 25,000 downloads since its 2015 launch and an amazing sequence of guests. The May episode “Every Artist is a Business Owner” with Maria Brophy …
Art Business Summit–Signups!
It’s a go! The Second Annual Art Business Summit is scheduled for April 6-7 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Get your tickets! This is going to be an amazing event …
Fellows Focus on Capitalization
October in CHF’s Business Accelerator Program: the graduate Fellows are focusing on capitalization. The Fellows have acquired the core skills of defining a business objective and breaking it into actionable …
The Power of Rejection
This month at CHF, we’re talking about failing better—dealing with our failures and rejections in ways that are constructive instead of stagnating. In their blog post Use Rejection as …
How to Network and Gain Visibility
Art has long been driven by networks—as much so in Renaissance Italy and 19th Century France as in today’s globalized art world. The visibility of a contemporary artist is often …
Calling All Visual Artists: Connect, Develop & Thrive!
Join us in Denver on June 20th for our latest boots-on-the-ground event. On Tuesday, June 20th, CHF and Windows to the Divine will host a business-development forum for professional visual …
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Rare Clark Hulings Piece Available
Tell your favorite collector about this once-in-a-lifetime piece! Glenna Goodacre has collaborated with the heirs of the Clark Hulings estate, Mary and Elizabeth Hulings, to support the Clark Hulings Foundation with …
Best Practices to Engage With Curators – Dr. Catherine Futter
They’re not separate at all—the market and museum—there are galleries now where there’s very little work in the exhibition that’s for sale. They’re publishing books and ‘competing’ with museums. The lines are becoming blurrier and some of that is positive.”
Making Art Work in the 21st Century – September 2017 newsletter
Dear Friends: It wasn’t so long ago that the word “podcast” was coined. Now it has its own day—September 30 (see below). Just one more example of the rapidity with which …
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Marketing ‘Difficult’ Art – CHF Interviews Janet Culbertson
Janet Culbertson is an award-winning eco artist who has been making art for over five decades. In this conversation with Jennifer Orbom, Janet discusses marketing ‘difficult’ art, her business’ evolution, …
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