Reprinted from my blog on the American Tapestry Alliance website, Tuesday, March 14th, 2017

Artist Interviews

Artist Services

Center for Emerging Visual Artists
Artist Services Philadelphia, USA

How’s My Dealing? 2.0 is a website where artists can review galleries, art fairs, and mail scams that take advantage of artists by charging them or being an outright rip-off.

Art Specifier’s mission is to link artists, designer, architects, art professionals and art lovers worldwide.

Craft Emergency Relief Fund CERF+ was started by artists for artists in the craft community as a grassroots mutual aid effort in 1985 and has since emerged as the leading nonprofit organization that uniquely focuses on safeguarding artists’ livelihoods nationwide.

Fractured Atlas An organization that assists artists on many levels including business insurance, online rental market place and free online software.

Blogs

Arts Business Institute has workshops, online courses, personalized business consulting for artists, a Facebook and Twitter presence as well as a blog. I took a series of short workshops with them and had a personal consultation. I found both very useful.

Fiber Art Now is an online and real life magazine for fiber art.

Praxis Center For Aesthetic Studies has professional resources for the artist.

artsy.net

entrepreneur.com

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Books

The Art World Demystified: How Artists Define and Achieve Their Goals Carey, Allworth press (April 2016) Available on Amazon

Mountain Man’s Field Guide to Grammar, Gary Spina Sourcebooks Inc ISBN -13:978-1-4022-0740-2

Business of Art

New York Foundation For The Arts

Marketing-101-how-to-share-your-story

ArtistHotline resource guide Handy resources for common artist issues

Arts Entrepreneurship

Art Business.com Find a Gallery or Artist Agent or Representative to Sell Your Art or Maybe Sell it Yourself
The Auspicious Arts Incubator is a not-for-profit arts business incubator working to help artists make money from their art

Marketing Offline Drives traffic to an artist’s art website and help to create new art opportunities. Overall, offline marketing helps to make art sales and to brand the artist and their artwork.

Praxis Center For Aesthetic Studies Is has an online course of study for marketing and promotion.

Marketing Guides

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Exhibitions

The Art In Embassies Program (AIEP) is a public-private partnership that promotes cultural diplomacy through exhibitions, permanent collections, site-specific commissions and two-way artist exchanges in more than 200 U.S. Embassies and Consulates around the world. You can join the Registry.

Art Net News is the leading online resource for the international art market, and the destination to buy, sell, and research art online. Founded in 1989 with the goal of bringing transparency to the art world, artnet’s comprehensive suite of products offers a variety of art market resources to our audience of collectors, dealers, and art enthusiasts.

Larryslist.com is an art market knowledge company providing insights, data, and access to contemporary art collectors.The Larry’s List Art Collector Database contains over 3,500 profiles of art collectors from more than 70 countries

Sebastopol Center for the Arts exhibition possibilities

Online art submission and jury systems:

CaFE (www.callforentry.org)

Entrythingy (www.entrythingy.com)

Juried Art Services (www.juriedartservices.com)

Submittable (www.submittable.com).

If you intend to exhibit as part of art or craft fairs, there’s also Zapp (www.zapplication.org).

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Grants and Funding

Art News Tips And Resources

Complete Guide to 2019 Artist Grants & Opportunities

GrantSpace FAQs about Grants

The Harpo Foundation was established in 2006 to support emerging visual artists. The foundation seeks to stimulate creative inquiry and to encourage new modes of thinking about art. We view the definitions of art and artist to be open-ended and expansive.

Mayer Foundation
Emergency Funding

Puffin Foundation
Socially Conscious

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Jobs

New York Foundation For the Arts Opportunities Listings

The Art Newspaper
Worldwide

Art Jobs
Worldwide

Christie’s
Worldwide

Art Search
USA

Arts for LA
Los Angeles CA

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Miscellaneous

Friends of Fiber Art Friends of Fiber Art tells the world that fiber art is the collectible of the 21st century and helps you find it. They facilitate opportunities and programs for the education of potential collectors.

How Do You Define Artist, Huffington Post.

Global Gallery Guide

e-artnow is an electronic information service distributing selected e-mail announcements related to contemporary visual arts. e-artnow is an artists’ initiative founded in january 2008 in Prague, Czech Republic. We provide an independent and competitive alternative to the existing electronic e-mail art news distribution with a Do It Yourself philosophy – You create your own announcement online: we send it out. We send out your exclusive e-mail announcement on the date you wish + we include you in our weekly Opening Reminder e-mail announcement.

Talking About Your Art

How to sell at craft fairs

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