How to Build a Robust Creative Economy That Rewards Everyone—including Artists
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The Thriving Artist
The THRIVING ARTIST PODCAST is a feature of the Clark Hulings Foundation, which exists to provide training, professional introductions, and funding for working artists, to turn working artis...
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20 of 90 episodesVirtual & Analog Art
“We’re going to need more art—all of it—to solve the world’s challenging problems. Creative intelligence is what it takes to inject life int...
Clark Hulings—Archetype of the Independent Artist
James D. Balestrieri is the Clark Hulings Foundation’s Writer-in-Residence. He is currently working on a new book on Hulings, Clark Hulings:...
Stock Art Can Go to Hell: Corporate Art Without Compromise
Artist and illustrator Melissa Whitaker works full-time for companies across the US, bringing her signature pop-graphic-noir style to their...
Virtualize Your Art Career: Part 2
In the second episode of this two-part podcast, Carolyn Edlund weighs-in on how artists can shift their sales strategies and build an art bu...
Virtualize Your Art Career: Part 1
Carolyn Edlund is the Sales & Events Director at the Clark Hulings Foundation, and our resident subject matter expert in Sales Strategy. In...
Selling Art in The New Normal: Marketplace, Native Communities, and Virtual Reality
The Virtual Edition of The Santa Fe Indian Market offers an amazing atmosphere of delight and awe at a time when most of us are cooped up in...
Build Your Own Future With Or Without The Establishment
Artist Ashley Longshore has never waited for industry gatekeepers to open doors for her: she’s a wildly successful, self-made entrepreneur....
Lockdown: Artists Double Down on Building Robust Businesses and Self-Help Networks
It’s a timely moment to be interviewing the team from CERF+, a leading nonprofit focused on safeguarding artists’ livelihoods nationwide. Fo...
These Artists Graduated Training But are Entrepreneurs for Life
Find out how working artists become thriving artists. This is the biggest podcast we’ve ever recorded, featuring 18 voices: the graduating c...
Data Science in the Arts: Report on the Working Artist
Two years in the making, CHF’s Report on the Working Artist (ROWA) is a truly groundbreaking piece of research: the first of its kind demons...
Infiltrate the Business World in the Name of Art
Noah Scalin is an artist based in Richmond, Virginia, whose sculpture, installation, and photography use everyday items reassembled in new c...
Artists Are Solving Atomic-Level Problems
Cyndi Conn is the Executive Director of Creative Santa Fe, a non-profit arts and community development organization that emphasizes innovati...
Classical Skills for Modern Art Careers: The Case for Training and Tradition
Mandy Theis @mandyfineartist is a figurative painter and art educator, and graduate of the Aristides Atelier. She is the president and co-fo...
Fearlessly Take On The Big Daddy Ugly Goal
Willy Bo Richardson is a painter based in Santa Fe, New Mexico and an alumnus of CHF’s Art-Business Accelerator program. Visually, his work...
If You Build It, They Will Ignore It. Unless…
Mary McBride is the chair of the Arts and Cultural Management and Design Management graduate programs at Pratt Institute School of Art in Ne...
Tighten Your Sales Strategy, Then Refuse to Compromise
Donna is a painter based in Beaufort, North Carolina; she’s a graduate Fellow of CHF’s Art-Business Accelerator Program, and an Emeritus Adv...
Lock Down Your Rights to Your Own Art
Emily is an Intellectual Property Attorney with over 14 years of experience handling copyright and trademark, including business and licensi...
Make the Gig Economy Work for You
Angela is a Washington DC-based speaker, trainer, consultant, and president of TKC Incorporated. With clients including Marriott, the State...
Get to Emerging Artist Status and Beyond
Bonnie Clearwater is the director and chief curator at Nova Southeastern University (NSU) Art Museum in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Originally...