Below you can find various other resources that will take you to your next level in your career that you may not have known you needed.

ArtBusiness.com: How Any Artist Can Price Their Art For Sale

Pricing your art is different from making art; it’s something you do with your art after it’s made, when it’s ready to leave your studio and get sold. When you price your art, you must be able to show that your prices make sense, that they’re fair and justified with respect to certain art criteria. ArtBusiness.com provides basic art pricing fundamental steps for any artist to use.

You can find there website here.

Saatchi Art

How Do I Package A Painting?: Saatchi Art includes a step by step on how to package for shipment. They include instructions for artwork smaller than 48 x 48, greater than 48 x 48, framed works, and rolled canvas paintings. Regardless if you’re a painter or not, this article can still be helpful for artists who needs to know how to package any 2D artwork.

Packaging and Shipping: Saatchi Art takes a deeper dive into prepping for shipment. Cost of shipping and shipping insurance are all included. They also touch base on the Certificate of Authenticity.

Davis Images: Mural Pricing

Davis Images includes a price chart displaying the 4 factors including, location and footage, cost of materials, intricacy of design, and the working conditions. Davis Images also provides his take on how payment of exchange should go.

You can find his website here.

Sweek Publishing

Sweek Publishing is part of Sweek, a platform where anyone can read, write and share stories all over the world. They are an online book publisher that enables you to easily publish your book and e-book at no cost. Their platform supports you during the publishing process and assists you with promoting and selling your book. Sweek offers all the functionalities you need to publish, promote and sell your book and e-book.

For more information, check out their website: https://selfpublish.sweek.com/

Infamous Musician: Best and Worst Places to Sell Your Music Gear

Infamous Musician will cover the best places to sell your musical instruments (and other music gear) to get the most money you can for them. They will also cover which places to avoid (unless you need the cash ASAP).

Take a look here: https://www.infamousmusician.com/the-best-and-worst-places-to-sell-your-music-equipment/

GYST-Ink

GYST-Ink is an artist-run company providing resources, technology and solutions created by artists. Below you will find some resources that we thought would be meaningful for artists/creatives.

Teaching for Artists: GYST explains what a teaching portfolio is and how to create one. Below you can find a few of the necessary documents needed for your portfolio:

• Cover Letter
• CV
• Teaching Philosophy
• Teaching Experience and Responsibilities
• Teaching Methods and Strategies

You can find more information here: https://www.gyst-ink.com/teaching

Elevator Speech: The elevator speech comes from the business world, and is based on the idea that you may only have the time it takes to get between a few floors to introduce yourself or talk about your work. GYST provides an exercise designed to get you comfortable with talking about your work during these short meetings. More information is provided here: https://www.gyst-ink.com/elevator-speech

Presenting Yourself: You will come across many situations where you have to present yourself and your work: job interviews, studio visits, curator visits, public art presentations, lectures, workshops, grant interviews, symposiums, teaching demonstrations for interviews, collectors, gallery talks, museum walkthroughs, reviewers/writers, presentations to funders, producers and more.  You will be able to find the considerations you should address before you present yourself on their website: https://www.gyst-ink.com/presenting-yourself

Career Options for Creative Professionals: This article highlights how to ace an interview through preparation and prep questions. If you’re interested, check it out here: https://www.gyst-ink.com/career-options-for-creative-professionals

Artwork Archive

Everything You Need to Know About Giclee Prints: Prints have become very popular. If you’re interested in capitalizing on varying and diversifying your income, this might be worth looking into for your art business strategy.

This article will discuss what you need to know to begin creating and selling reproduction prints: https://www.artworkarchive.com/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-giclee-prints

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