Event Host: Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise
Short Description: This 90-minute talk discuses the fundamental skills artists need to develop and sustain a professional life. It provides an overview of Battenfield’s widely acclaimed book, The Artist’s Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love, and covers tips on how to plan, promote, fund, organize, and build community. There will be time to address audience questions.
The Department of Art, Arts Initiative, Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise, and Professor Sergio Soave’s Marketplace Empowerment for Artists Grant supported by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, welcome artist, author and professor Jackie Battennfield.
Artists today have unprecedented access to opportunities and potential worldwide circulation of their work. More than ever before, artists must manage themselves: they must be knowledgeable and well informed to juggle multiple venues and an increasingly international market. They need to develop flexible systems to respond to future changes and continue to thrive.
This 90-minute talk discuses the fundamental skills artists need to develop and sustain a professional life. It provides an overview of Battenfield’s widely acclaimed book, The Artist’s Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love, and covers tips on how to plan, promote, fund, organize and build community. There will be time to address audience questions.
Free and open to all.
Jackie Battenfield is an artist who is known nationally for her luminous paintings and prints of natural forces. For over twenty-five years, she has made a living from her art and is a popular motivational speaker on the challenges of sustaining a successful career in the visual arts. Battenfield teaches professional practices at the School of Arts, Columbia University and for the Creative Capital Foundation. Battenfield is the author of The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love, Da Capo Press, 2009, now in it’s sixth printing.
The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation (EHTF) is a family foundation established in 1986 by Emily Hall Tremaine. Based in Connecticut, the Foundation seeks to promote innovative solutions to basic and enduring problems in the United States through grantmaking programs related to art, environment, and learning disabilities. In addition to annual grantmaking, the Foundation also hosts periodic convenings of non-profit organizations, government agencies and other stakeholders to facilitate collaboration among sectors to achieve common goals.
