The Thriving Artist

The Thriving Artist


Latest Episodes

Leverage Your Non-Art Expertise for a Career Blueprint—Kristin LeVier
December 04, 2018

Kristin makes work at the intersection of art and science that connects us to the “extraordinary, strange beauty of the natural world.”

Get Your Art Into Hotels and Corporate Spaces—Rachel Berg
November 07, 2018

“Make sure you’re always retaining the rights to the work. If someone is asking you to sign the rights, there’s a problem. Because we are asking permission to use it; not to own it.”

Identifying Pivotal Opportunities for Business Growth – Nadia Fairlamb
October 02, 2018

“I consider myself a business owner, and my business is art. So I know that I’m running a business, and every artist that I know that’s making money is doing it the same way.”

Generate Powerful Publicity: A Sistine Chapel Mindset – Todd Scalise
August 16, 2018

"The tipping point in my business was being able to educate people about why what I'm doing is different."

Leverage Your Creative Skills to Improve Your Finances – Christina Empedocles
June 25, 2018

"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
May 12, 2018

"The thing that trips students up the most is embracing that a commercial approach to art is OK."

Getting Down to Business – April 2018 newsletter - Clark Hulings Fund
April 30, 2018

Insights into the Business of Visual Art

How Creative Entrepreneurs Build Investment Capital – Alice Loy
April 17, 2018

“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
March 25, 2018

“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.”