I AM AN ARTIST
A note to family, co-workers, and self for artists who make a living outside their art.
The Artists Raising Kids Compendium
A report from our Artists Raising Kids project: 130 artist parents surveyed, 20 artist parents interviewed, and 50 artist parents convened for a workshop/conversation. Lots of crowd-sourced thinking from our surveys, and an overview essay of what we learned.
Un/Distracted: Making Art in the Age of Interruption
We surveyed 350 artists and held two in-person roundtables asking: How do you make art and still answer all those emails? How do you manage the distractions and interruptions of social media, apps an notifications? Artists (of course) are counter-designing the compulsive design of apps and online platforms. We gathered all their techniques and strategies into this compendium.
What Artist Residencies Can Do For Artist Parents and Vice Versa
I was part of a national working group of artists, residency spaces, and funders looking at how residencies can better work with artist parents. Here’s our printable poster with easy medium, and hard solutions. You can read more about the process (and lots of other great artist parent resources at Cultural Reproducers.
The Simple Art of Fundraising
by Damian Sinclair
Damian is a longtime friend of Artists U and a genius at helping artists raise money from individuals. He is the real deal and has worked grassroots with artists across disciplines and understands why fundraising is hard for us. His book takes you through the internal barriers we have to asking for money and lays out a clear, doable process for building a base of individual donors.
He has generously partnered with us to offer this book for free to artists. Wanna thank him? He's
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