The Thriving Artist™ Podcast
Insights into the Business of Art
ABOUT THE SHOW: The Thriving Artist TM podcast features insightful interviews with artists, collectors, gallerists, and other leading experts on visual art as a business and the business of visual artists with host Daniel DiGriz. The series employs a highly digestible podcast format to provide an informal business learning course built around each guest's knowledge and experiences. A production of The Clark Hulings Foundation, the show is available here and on your favorite audio platforms:
- All
- Brand Story & Marketing
- Career Blueprint
- Financial
- Legal & Logistics
- Peer Networks
- Pivotal Projects
- Sales Conversations
- Sales Strategy
- Technology
Leverage Your Creative Skills to Improve Your Finances – Christina Empedocles
“Your art practice will change; it’s absolutely necessary to plan for it. I don’t want to hustle to find rent money when I’m 80!”
Build a Brand That Gets a Response – Jenny Darroch
“The thing that trips students up the most is embracing that a commercial approach to art is OK.”
How Creative Entrepreneurs Build Investment Capital – Alice Loy
“Creatives can, and should, own the companies that creatives work at—creative people are uniquely suited to understand opportunities and problems and therefore develop solutions for market opportunities.”
Do Art Fairs Pay Off? – Ray Beldner
“Having one-on-one face time with an artist is what the viewer wants, it’s a good way to sell art and look at art.”
How to Grow Your Customer Base and Increase Sales – Steve Pruneau
“It doesn’t matter what your art is, if your intention is to earn a living from it and thrive in your art, that proposal will help you figure out how you’re going to get there.”
Engage New Sales Avenues to Increase Art Income – Aaron Laux
It’s been an evolution to be a professional artist, and it’s taken me a long time to get here….I’m coming around to really seeing this as not only what I do, but my lifestyle and my income.”
Identify Product-Market Fit for Entrepreneurial Success – Arree Chung
“The best way to learn business is to start doing it.”
The Learned Skills of Successful Entrepreneurs – John Furth
“Successful people say ‘Yeah, I failed, but I did learn, and this is how I’ll apply it to the next thing I do.'”

