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Take Back Your Work: A response to #nosurprise
It is a watershed moment for awareness of workplace sexual harassment and as many working artists know, the art world is no exception. Recently, Artforum’s famed publisher resigned amongst multiple sexual […]
Why Are You Working for Free? Examining Arts Labor – Alexis Clements
“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.”
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 […]
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.”
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
How to Meet Stakeholder Demands – Holly Van Hart
“I don’t mind letting people see the process and where I go wrong, that’s part of the creative process and what people are interested in.”
