What if there were a central, comprehensive art-industry resource that you could access 24/7 from anywhere in the world? And what if that resource instantly connected you to a community …
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Attention, figurative painters: Mark your calendars for the 2018 Figurative Art Convention & Expo (FACE), which takes place from November 7th – 10th in Miami, Florida. This immersive four-day event …
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Thank you to all of the visual artists who applied for our 2019 Art-Business Accelerator Fellowships. We will be naming our new Fellows in November 2018, and the 2019 program …
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Following a portfolio review, a gallerist told the artist who goes by the Instagram handle Wait What Show that “darn,” despite loving her paintings, “I don’t represent young women because they’re …
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We thank the Dallas arts community for making CHF’s latest Art-Business Summit a huge success. From the kickoff Art-Business Congress at Turner House on Friday, September 7th, to the weekend-long workshops at …
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There’s a lot of advice out there about how to improve your business, which can make it hard to know where to look for impactful content. In a recent CHF …
Alex Mathers is a writer and illustrator who captured our attention with his writing on how to increase value in the creative marketplace, and what success means for artists. The …
“I see a lack of confidence standing in people’s way, they don’t trust what they’re thinking, they don’t trust what they’re painting, and as soon as they get a little confident I see a huge change.”
I pay attention and am trying to learn more about the business side of things—by knowing my numbers, testing my choices and decisions, and tracking the results.
2017 Accelerator Fellow Where did you grow up? In Glendora, a suburb of Los Angeles. When/how did you first know that you wanted to be an artist? I’ve wanted to …
2017 Accelerator Fellow Where did you grow up? Nashville, Tennessee, a.k.a. The Music City. When/how did you first know that you wanted to be an artist? As a small child, …
2017 Accelerator Fellow Where did you grow up? I am a Midwesterner at heart—born and raised in Evanston, Illinois. The house I grew up in was within walking distance of …
2017 Accelerator Fellow Where did you grow up? Saskatoon in Saskatchewan, Canada. When/how did you first know that you wanted to be an artist? I don’t recall one particular moment, …
2017 Accelerator Fellow Where did you grow up? I was born near Los Angeles. When I was eight, my family moved across the country to a small town in Western …
2017 Accelerator Fellow Where did you grow up? La Canada, California, near Pasadena, in the Los Angeles area. When/how did you first know that you wanted to be an artist? …
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