Yesterday's blog ended with reference to "Other" and "Outsider" art. These are not my terms but the "official" nomenclature that the art industry uses to reference art that doesn't fit Western contemporary art discourse, yet. In 1960's lingo, its the art of "counter culture". I'm old enough to have observed
Profit-Legacy Continuum A "professional" artist is defined as spending the greater amount of their time doing some aspect of their art, including teaching, writing and marketing their art. Other sources of income may supplement the artist's copyright income but it isn't the major focus of their time. For analysis purposes, I've
Over the past decade, I've observed a personal rhythm to balancing activities within my art practice, and interfacing it with "the other"; and creating income to support all this. My style seems to be based on "delayed gratification". One year I might focus on writing many exhibition and funding proposals,
"Independent" Visual ArtistsWow! I know its an incredibly big subject because there's probably as many types of careers as there are independent visual artists. Firstly, let me clarify the arguable concept of "independent visual artist" or art practice. "Independent visual artist" in my view refers to an artist who creates
Book distribution - http://www.artengine.ca/sandra/book/index.htm I prefer to sell the book, "The Business of Art for Canadian Visual Artists" through a third party retailer. Because I'm so small being both the author and publisher, the retailer must pay me up-front for the books. This is not the norm in the Canadian publishing
Artwork Presentation: I'm not a framer of artwork but to reduce my expenses I must assemble my own custom cut matts and metal frames for an upcoming solo exhibition at the Centrepointe Theatre, August 28 to September 30, 2009. The latest ten photomontage images in the Arctic Crisis print series are