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Presentation Tools

Photographing Art Work:  Publications and resources that provide information on how to photograph artwork, including advice on lighting, camera angles, and shooting two-dimensional and three-dimensional work. Presentation Media: Resources for artists that provide advice and information on preparing support materials for various forms of art marketing tools. including artist statements and podcasts. Website Design: Resources to assist artists with website design, including companies that offer flexible templates. Print on Demand: Resources for artists interested in using print on demand Read more…

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Money

Artist Accounting and Bookkeeping: Resources for artists that provide information on bookkeeping, accounting, and record keeping, taxes, deductions, and hobby loss challenges.  Pricing Artwork: Resources to help artists establish prices for artwork, including publications that offer advice and guidelines. Employment: Publications, organizations and other resources that provide information on careers in the arts, including those related to arts administration, education, media, museums, seminars and workshops, residencies with art service and social service agencies, and freelance art and Read more…

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Exhibitions, Commissions & Sales

Exhibition Places & Spaces, and Exhibition Planning:  Resources for artists’ exhibition opportunities in alternative spaces, for-profit and nonprofit galleries, museums, university galleries, and other venues. Also includes resources for exhibition planning and shipping artwork. Gallery Relations:  Resources for artists that provide advice and information on working with galleries and various facets of gallery relations. Corporate Art Market: Resources pertaining to the corporate art market, including how to obtain lists of art consultants and art advisors, interior designers, and Read more…

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Career

Career Development: Resources for artists that provide advice, information, and guidance on a wide range of career-related topics, including organizations and publications. Art Marketing/Career Coaches: The names and contact information of career coaches who assist artists with creative challenges, career development, and marketing and business strategies. Artworld Mailing Lists: Includes curators, art consultants, and various art press and critics mailing lists. Art Marketing: Resources that provide advice and information about art marketing strategies and promotion, including social media. Read more…

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Terms of Use

Welcome to this site. We ask that you review these Terms and Conditions, which are intended to constitute a binding license agreement that conditions your use of this site (“Agreement”). We have tried to avoid unnecessary legal verbiage and hope that you understand that we are simply trying to protect our rights in order to provide you with access to the free content available at this site. If you do not wish to be bound Read more…

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Welcome

Welcome to the Artist Help Network, which is based on the Appendix of Resources in Caroll Michels’ book How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist: Selling Yourself without Selling Your Soul (7th edition, New York: Allworth Press, 2018). Michels is a career coach and artist-advocate (www.carollmichels.com) The Artist Help Network is a work in progress and is continually being updated. Please note that the website is strictly an online career resource, and does not Read more…

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