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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
Amy Smith and dancers from Headlong Dance Company performed at the 2015 Creative Capital Benefit. It’s a well-worn cliche, but it’s true: “Knowledge is power,” and nowhere is this more apparent than in...
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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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Arts Business Management – Streamline Your Time
The business side of a creative practice is never the most exciting aspect of an artist’s career, but it is an indispensable one. On March 27th, composer and Creative Capital awardee Artist Leader...
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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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