A few of you have asked me about how to manage the business side of being an artist. If you are interested in making work and exhibiting or selling, sooner or later you are going to have to start finding out more about how to manage your career. Here are a couple of sites that I recommend taking a look at.
GYST was founded by Karen Atkinson to help artist keep track of there work, help with inventory, write artist statements, etc. Anything that you would need to support your practice. Take a look they some very useful services and she sells software that will help you keep organized.
www.gyst-ink.com
The Center for Cultural Innovation offers workshops that also address time management for artists, how to keep organized, how to use the web, etc. They have a workshop called the "Business Art Boot Camp" that I haven't taken personally but have heard good thing about. This organization has a lot of resources worth checking out.
www.cciarts.org/workshops.htm
I'll keep posting on this topic through out the class for those of you that are interested.
Thank you so much for posting these. I am going to check out the sites now, bookmark them and review them when I get a chance. Much appreciated! :-D
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