The Artist's Guide
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The Artist's Guide by Jackie Battenfield
Using a tough love approach" to pursuing a career in the visual arts, Jackie Battenfield expands on her highly successful classes and workshops to provide a comprehensive guide for both emerging and mid-career artists. Providing real-life examples, illustrations, and step-by-step exercises, Battenfield offers readily applicable advice on all aspects of the job. Along with tips on planning and assessment, she presents strategies for self-management, including marketing, online promotion, building professional relationships, grant writing, and portfolio development. Each chapter ends with an insightful Reality Check" interview, featuring advice and useful information from high-profile artists and professionals. The result is an inspiring, experiential guide brimming with field-tested techniques that readers can easily apply to their own career.
Booklist, 6/1/09 "A readable, realistic, and practical field guide to professional success in the visual arts..A wealth of reproduced art and profiles of artists complete this inspiring, useful, and, given the rise in do-it-yourself careers, timely resource." Joanne Mattera, ArtBlog: Marketing Mondays, 6/15/09 "This book explains the art world and offers clear and useful steps to setting goals and achieving them--information that until recently most artists never learned in art school...This is one well-timed and well-written book." NEWSgrist.com, 6/18/09 "It is an experiential guide brimming with field-tested techniques that readers can apply to their own practice. With equal parts of practicality, warmth, good humor, and insight, Battenfield demystifies the path artists travel towards a flourishing career." Peggy Payne, Peggy Payne's Boldness Blog, 6/16/09 "[Jackie Battenfield] knows what she's writing about." The Expat Blog, 6/18/09 "Offers clear and useful steps to setting goals and achieving them."
Jackie Battenfield's work is represented in over a thousand collections worldwide. She teaches a course in professional development in the visual arts at Columbia University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780306816529 |
| ISBN 10 | 0306816520 |
| Title | The Artist's Guide |
| Author | Jackie Battenfield |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hachette Books |
| Year published | 2009-06-09 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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