How artists can avoid being taken advantage of by predatory people and business models Pop quiz: what do P.T. Barnum’s grotesque FeeJee Mermaid and the Enron scandal have in common? Though at vastly different scales and in very different industries, both were scams intended to gently part the innocent and ignorant from their hard earned […]

I’m an art collector. Well, no. I fantasize about being an art collector. In my imagination, where I drink a highball every day at five o’clock sharp and go on long vacations to places where the temperature never dips below 70, I’m an art collector. I love art, but I’ve never plucked up the courage […]

Branching out in your art business from the primary revenue streams of sales of originals and prints can be a very smart move. It’s all about diversifying your income so that if one gallery dries up, you can still count on money coming in. When setting up passive income streams like print-on-demand products and the […]

What is exclusivity? Exclusivity, in a contract with a client who is requesting a custom piece, prevents the artist from creating and/or selling reproductions of the original work. In other words, you paint a piece, the client pays you, you transfer ownership of the piece to the client, and you can’t sell prints of that […]

What’s the difference between an art show and a craft fair? Why is it so important? Identifying the differences between the two types of shows isn’t about making a value judgment or asserting that one is better than the other. On the contrary, they can both be fun, great for networking and attracting new customers, […]