M i d - M a n h
a t t a n L i b r a r y
Presents
Making an Artist’s Life Work
An Artist
Career Development Lecture by
Jackie Battenfield
Monday June 22, 2009
6:30 p.m. on the 6th floor
Mid-Manhattan Library
The New
York Public Library
40th Street and 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10016
212-340-0871
Elevators access the 6th floor after
6p.m.
All events are FREE and subject to last minute change or cancellation.
The Art Collection is pleased to host the fifteenth
lecture in the series addressing the growing needs and concerns of independent
creative workforce in New York City.
Too many talented visual artists feel lost or
frustrated professionally because they lack fundamental business skills and the
confidence to promote themselves and manage their career.
The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What you Love provides artists with
the information, tools and techniques for developing and sustaining a
professional life. It introduces valuable tactics – from planning and
assessment to time management and negotiation – which are seldom offered to
visual artists in ways that are relevant to their practice.
Jackie Battenfield will
address the essential skills any artist can develop to grow and sustain their
professional life. She will offer advice on how to plan, promote, fund,
organize, and build community.
There will be time reserved to address questions
from the audience.
Jackie Battenfield is an artist known for
her luminously colored paintings and prints of natural forces which explore her
fascination with the most abstract qualities of landscape--storms, clouds,
brushfires, and water ripples. She has made a living from her studio practice
for over twenty years. Jackie teaches professional practice classes for visual
artists in the graduate program at Columbia
University, and the
Professional Development Program at the Creative Capital Foundation. She is the
author of The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love.
The book is based on her art career and the professional skills classes she has
taught for over fifteen years.
The development of the
book is a NYFA Sponsored Project and has been supported by The Sam & Adele
Golden Foundation for the Arts, Inc., and the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation.
You can visit the book's website at: www.artistcareerguide.com
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