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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 artists into THRIVING artists. Tune in for insights from other artists, art industry experts, art collectors, and...
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90 episoade
How to Build a Robust Creative Economy That Rewards Everyone—including Artists
How do we live in a robust culture? How do we produce a robust culture at a time when we are fracturing, polarized, and creative enterprise is an afte...
Virtual & 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 into the cult...
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: Quantum R...
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 branding a...
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 business tha...
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 the first...
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 our own w...
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. Owner of T...
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. Founded in 1...
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 class of ou...
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 demonstrating ar...
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 contexts. N...
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 innovative collabo...
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-founder of T...
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 is abstrac...
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 New York Cit...
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 Advisor for t...
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 licensing agreeme...
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 Department...
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 from Rock...
Leverage Your Non-Art Expertise for a Career Blueprint
Kristin Levier is a sculptor and a 2018 Executive Fellow with CHF’s Art-Business Accelerator Program. After two decades as a molecular biologist, she...
Get Your Art Into Hotels and Corporate Spaces
Rachel Berg is a New York City-based Art Advisor. She is the director of curation at Museum Editions, which specializes in placing art in hotels, rest...
Identify Pivotal Opportunities for Business Growth
Nadia Fairlamb is a sculptor who works with wood and mirror glass, and she also teaches art to young people through various educational programs in Ha...
Generate Powerful Publicity: A Sistine Chapel Mindset
Todd Scalise is the founder and CEO of Higherglyphics, a creative placemaking firm that manages large-scale public art projects from start to finish:...
Leverage Your Creative Skills to Improve Your Finances
Is it realistic for artists to think "One day, I'll retire"? Christina Empedocles knows about the financial concerns of artists. A working artist repr...
Build a Brand That Gets a Response
Building a brand means creating an expectation and giving your audience a chance to anticipate and desire what you’re making. We cover a lot of ground...
How Creative Entrepreneurs Build Investment Capital
Alice Loy is the co-founder and CEO of Creative Startups, an accelerator program with a presence in the US, the Middle East, and Asia. An expert in th...
Do Art Fairs Pay Off?
Do working artists need art fairs, even after securing representation? An artist himself, Ray Beldner explains the decision-making processes of develo...
How to Grow Your Customer Base and Increase Sales
Steve Pruneau serves as the Chairman of CHF's Board and is the founder of Free Agent Source Inc., a management consulting company that applies sharing...
Engage New Sales Avenues to Increase Art Income
Aaron Laux is an artist who makes 100% of his income from his art—a rarity in the profession. In this episode, Aaron and podcast host Daniel DiGriz di...
Identify Product-Market Fit for Entrepreneurial Success
Arree Chung is an author, illustrator, designer and art director in the gaming industry, and founder of Storyteller Academy. In this episode, Arree an...
The Learned Skills of Successful Entrepreneurs
John Furth is the CEO of the advisory group Furth & Associates. A consultant for over 26 years, he has held senior positions as the head of strategy g...
What Independent Publishing Can Teach Visual Artists
Eric is the Chairman, Publisher, and CEO of Streamline Publishing, Inc. which publishes Fine Art Connoisseur and PleinAir Magazine. A career entrepren...
Why Are You Working for Free? Examining Arts Labor
Alexis Clements is a Brooklyn-based artist, journalist and documentary filmmaker. Her writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, ...
How to Collaborate with Museums
Seth Hopkins is the Executive Director of the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, GA. In this episode, Seth and podcast host Daniel DiGriz discu...
Best Practices to Engage With Curators
Dr. Catherine Futter is the Director of Curatorial Affairs at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. Starting her career as a decorative arts cur...
How to Meet Stakeholder Demands
Holly Van Hart is a visual artist based in Silicon Valley, and a Clark Hulings Fund Business Accelerator Fellow. In this episode of the Thriving Artis...
Find the Best Representation for Your Art
Stephanie Birdsall is a painter who has exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London and the National Arts Club in New York. She has rec...
Translate Social Media to Sales
Gregg Chadwick is a Santa Monica–based artist who has been painting for three decades, and his work has been exhibited in national and international g...
On Selling Tools of the (Art) Trade
Ron Whitmore co-owns and operates Artisan, an art-supply store that serves as a community hub for artists in its two locations—Santa Fe and Albuquerqu...