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Lessons in Sustainability: Five Questions for Sharon Louden
Sharon Louden teaches at the Chautauqua Institution. Sharon Louden needs no introduction. A successful artist, editor, author and advocate for artists, Sharon’s transparent and earnest approach to...
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Organizing Tax Returns? Top Tips for Artists!
Tax time isn’t fun for most people, but it’s especially hard on artists who have a diverse range of income from freelance jobs, gigs, commissions and part time jobs. That’s why every tax season, our...
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A Page from Our Handbook: Designing and Building Your Artist Site
In Detroit, Rola Nashef and Donavan Glover receiving their Creative Capital Artist’s Tools Handbook The following post comes from the Professional Development Program’s (PDP) Artist’s Tools and...
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Have Art, Will Travel: Unlocking Europe’s Festival Circuit with Kurt Perschke
Artist leader Kurt Perschke at the installation of the “Red Ball Project” at Le Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris “I came up, like a lot of visual artists, assuming I would be attempting to have the...
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A Page from Our Handbook: Funding Your Work – Proposal Basics
Check out Creative Capital artist Kristina Wong’s latest show at REDCAT. Image: Amy Tierney Every few weeks we post tips straight from the Professional Development Program’s Artist’s Tools Handbook, a...
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Space to Bloom – Upcoming Grant and Residency Opportunities
Photo credit: TaleamorPark.org Sometimes the most essential ingredients to the successful completion of a project or piece of work are the uninterrupted time, space and resources every piece needs in...
View ArticleCrowdfunding Tips from Jennifer Fox
Earlier this year, Jennifer Fox (2005 Film/Video grantee) raised over $150,000 on Kickstarter for her new film My Reincarnation, making hers one of the most successful film campaigns in Kickstarter’s...
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Podcast: New Media in the Marketplace
Jason Salavon, Karolina Sobecka, Stephen Vitiello, Marina Zurkow Over the years, we’ve found that a number of the artists we support in our Emerging Fields category have questions about how they can...
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Artful Learning Online: Our New Webinars for Artists
As you likely know by now, Creative Capital’s Professional Development Program (PDP) just launched its new Online Learning Program for artists working in all disciplines nationwide. Drawing on PDP’s...
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Meet Our Newest Internet for Artists Workshop Leader, Brad Stephenson
Brad Stephenson presenting at a recent Internet for Artists workshop at the Montana Arts Council in Kallispel, MT Brad Stephenson is our Professional Development Program’s newest Internet for Artists...
View ArticlePDP Brings Practical Tools to Artists in Nashville
The Arts & Business Council in Nashville hosted its second Professional Development Program Core Weekend workshop for local artists in late September. The workshop has been described as a “crash...
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Artist to Artist: Lisa Bielawa and Arturo Vidich Talk Performance in the...
Lisa Bielawa will stage a musical performance at Berlin’s Tempelhof Field May 10-12. Artists Lisa Bielawa (2006 Performing Arts) and Arturo Vidich (2013 Performing Arts) have more in common than meets...
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Artist to Artist: John Sutton and Juan William Chávez Talk Public Space,...
Concept rendering of SuttonBeresCuller’s “Mini Mart City Park” John Sutton: So, a little bit of background to start: I’m a 2008 Visual Arts grantee—one third of the group SuttonBeresCuller—and I’ve...
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Artist to Artist: Jennifer Monson and DD Dorvillier on the Body as Archive
DD Dorvillier and Jennifer Monson in “RMW(a) & RMW,” 2010. Photo by Val Oliveiro. As part of our “Artist to Artist” interview series, choreographers and long-time artistic collaborators DD...
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Artist to Artist: Neal Medlyn and Jessica Almasy Discuss America
Neal Medlyn and Jessica Almasy Listen online to the podcast of this conversation, or subscribe through iTunes. Neal Medlyn: Hey everybody. It’s me, Neal Medlyn. I’m here with Jessica Almasy from The...
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Artist to Artist: Miwa Matreyek and Janie Geiser on Collaboration, Wonder and...
Janie Geiser (left) and Miwa Matreyek (right) As part of our “Artist to Artist” interview series, Miwa Matreyek (2013 Performing Arts) and Janie Geiser (2000 Performing Arts) sat down to discuss...
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Artist to Artist: Queen GodIs Interviews Tracie Morris about Poetry,...
Tracie Morris (left) and Queen GodIs (right) As part of our “Artist to Artist” interview series, Queen GodIs (2013 Performing Arts) and Tracie Morris (2000 Performing Arts) met up at the Brooklyn...
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Artist to Artist: Cory Arcangel and Julia Christensen on Media Fluidity and...
Cory Arcangel & Julia Christensen As part of our “Artist to Artist” interview series, Cory Arcangel (2006 Emerging Fields) and Julia Christensen (2013 Emerging Fields) connected over the phone to...
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Artist to Artist: Documentary Filmmakers Marshall Curry & Penny Lane
Penny Lane and Marshall Curry As part of our “Artist to Artist” interview series, Marshall Curry (2008 Film/Video) and Penny Lane (2012 Film/Video) connected over the phone to talk about their past and...
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Artist to Artist: Amy O'Neal and Degenerate Art Ensemble Discuss...
Haruko Nishimura in Degenerate Art Ensemble performance As part of our “Artist to Artist” interview series, Seattle-based artists Joshua Kohl and Haruko Nishimura of Degenerate Art Ensemble (2013...
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"Born to Fly" Filmmaker Catherine Gund Interviews Elizabeth Streb
STREB Extreme performing FORCES As part of our “Artist to Artist” interview series, filmmaker Catherine Gund spoke with choreographer Elizabeth Streb (2000 Performing Arts) about their new film “Born...
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Artist to Artist: eteam and Center for Land Use Interpretation
In our “Artist to Artist” series, we invite two Creative Capital artists whose art practices rhyme in some illuminating ways. Recently, we got the eteam (2009 Emerging Fields) duo and Matthew Coolidge...
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Internet for Artists: Ideas for Effective Blog Posts
A well curated artist blog can supplement your website, increase your audience’s understanding of your artistic practice and raise your online profile. But sometimes, just the idea of starting a blog...
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Be the Advocate Your Art Deserves: 4 Ways to Better Document Your Work
Documentation of On the Impossibility of Freedom in a Country Founded on Genocide and Slavery, a performance by Dread Scott, 2014. Produced by More Art. Photography by Mark Von Holden Photography (c)...
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Congratulations to Stacey Kirby on her ArtPrize 8 Win!
Excerpt from Stacey Kirby’s “The Declaration Project” What would you do with $200,000? That’s the question facing performance installation artist Stacey Kirby who recently won the $200,000 grand prize...
View ArticleDeveloping a Promotional Strategy
In your arts practice you will always have individuals and groups of people with whom you want to be connected. These connections could be related to an upcoming event, a search for new funding,...
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Internet for Artists: Best Practices for Effective Emails
This is an excerpt from our Internet for Artists (IFA) Handbook. The IFA handbook is a collaborative online resource given to participants of Creative Capital’s Internet for Artists workshops. On...
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Telling Our Stories on Our Terms — The Power of Strategic Marketing
The dangerous power of negative marketing, clockwise from top left: Detroit = miserable (photo by Rebecca Cook for Reuters); Occupy Wall Street = directionless (photo by Odell Payne); “A Fire In My...
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Tips and Tools: Advice from a First-Time Grant Winner
“Assent” by Laine Nixon, Courtesy of Laine Nixon Abstract painter and Professional Development Program alumna Laine Nixon recently applied for and won her first major arts grant: the John Ringling...
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Financial Literacy: A Cheat Sheet for Artists
Segregate Artistic and Personal Finances For artists, it is helpful to separate your personal and artistic finances. It’s important to use good bookkeeping practices for your self-employment, and it...
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