Jackie Battenfield teaches Professional Practices in the Graduate Program of Columbia University. She is the author of The Artist’s Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love, Da Capo Press, 2009. For the last thirty years, Jackie has made … [Continue reading] about Jackie Battenfield
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Free Thinking
“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky It is all too easy to be swept up in the current of popular thinking. In these days of social media, the mob mentality is less … [Continue reading] about Free Thinking
Adam Simon
Adam Simon is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY, known both for his paintings and for public projects around the presentation and distribution of art. Simon’s paintings mine cultural phenomena; newspaper layout and content, stock … [Continue reading] about Adam Simon
William J. Simmons
Photo by Zach GrossWilliam J. Simmons is Provost Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Southern California. Simmons did his BA at Harvard University and spent three years at the Graduate Center, CUNY and taught at the City College of New … [Continue reading] about William J. Simmons
Need Funding? Find it Here
Artists need funding. It’s a fact of life that just can’t be got around. Whether to travel, exhibit or simply move forward in your career, funding is an all-important component of any artistic career. But sometimes it can feel … [Continue reading] about Need Funding? Find it Here