Art Business

Learn tips and professional advice on how to sell your art, as well as guidance for maintaining your website or blog, staying organized, and other important aspects of art business.

Is Starting a Blog Right For You?

Have you ever asked yourself if you should start a blog? Maybe you have a blog, but aren’t quite sure what to do with it? There’s plenty of advice online about how to blog, but each writer and audience is unique, so it’s important to consider why you’re blogging in the first place. You need…

Its Your Time to Shine

What a stagnant world it would be if we didn't share our skills. Teaching each other what we know pushes our civilization forward, in all areas, including art. One of my favorite sayings is, learn the rules, and then break them. With my appetite for education and mental expansion, I learn everything I can from…

A Full-Fledged Traveling Art Studio

While looking through the newest issue of Studios (Summer 2014), I couldn’t help but notice one thing that several of the articles have in common—at least three of the featured artists credit their mothers for their creativity. While I wasn't looking for that link, it is fitting, since Mother’s Day is just around the corner.…

Are You Ready to Take Your Art Business Online?

Because I blog, host online seminars, and spend a lot of time on social media, people I encounter during live social interactions often ask me for advice regarding their art business. Should I be on Facebook? Do I have to do Twitter? Blogs-are they in or are they out? What about online teaching? Newsletters? In…