Starting Your Career as an Artist: A Guide to Launching a Creative Life

An integral resource for aspiring artists, this third edition updates key pieces of the classic Starting Your Career as an Artist.

In this comprehensive manual, veteran art career professionals Angie Wojak and Stacy Miller show aspiring artists how to evaluate their goals and create a plan of action to advance their professional careers, and use their talents to build productive lives in the art world. In addition, the book includes insightful interviews with professional artists and well-known players in the art scene. The third edition features a chapter on social media and includes interviews with artists, museum professionals, and educators, as well as new chapters on how to navigate the post-pandemic art world. All chapters cover topics essential to the emerging artist, such as:

•Using social media to advance your practice

•Health and safety for artists

•Artist’s resumes and CVs

•Finding alternative exhibition venues

•Building community through networking

•Collaborating and finding mentors

•Refining career aspirations

This invaluable resource is sure to encourage and inspire artists to create their own opportunities as they learn how the creativity that occurs inside the studio can be applied to developing a successful career in the art world.