3 Lessons Learned from Sculptor Sabin Howard About Art and Business
https://youtu.be/V0tbsp37JWM Sabin Howard is an internationally renowned classical figurative sculptor based in New York City. He is an Independent Artist, like Leonardo Di Vinci and Michaelangelo, meaning that he represents his business, not a representative or a gallery owner. Like the great masters, Sabin wanted his art to be public. He didn’t want the art […]
Arts Council Preys Upon Artists in Their Community
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMBnMtxhdzQ The Pocono Arts Council will keep preying upon artists in their community, unapologetically. PS if you tire of this blah, blah, blah. Hang on. My response is coming 🙂 Ann – In light of your recent facebook post and Youtube video, I would like to take this opportunity to explain the Pocono Arts Council’s […]
Biggest Mistake Artists make in their Careers
I was recently interviewed for an article profiling successful artists. The interviewer asked, “What are the biggest mistakes that you see artists making in planning their careers?” That was easy to answer. The biggest mistake that I see an artist making early, and sometimes too late, is that they do not recognize and or respect […]
The Artist Statement. Is it just Bull$hit?
Before I taught Kate Bradley how to sell her art, without feeling like a sell-out, she was trying desperately to sell her art through art galleries. Galleries insist that you write an artist statement. Here was Kate’s artist statement. My paintings combine the real and the abstract; flat planes of color juxtaposed with modeled, three-dimensional […]
Must Artists Suffer for their Art? (optional)
Oh please. Those who know me know that’s not my plan. Now does suffering inform an artist’s work? Maybe. Art is not literal; it is emotive. So feelings inform an artist’s work and they are central to the artist’s unique voice. And life experiences and a certain depth of emotion develop an emotional register that […]