For Artists, Makers & Creators
This is part 6 of our ongoing series on Art & Entrepreneurship. In the first half of this post, I interviewed Melanie Brummer – a very accomplished artist – about the artist as an entrepreneur. I’m glad to bring to you the second part of our interview. In this part of the interview, we […]
Melanie Brummer is an entrepreneur, an author, a trainer, an artist and a manufacturer of custom textiles for the fashion industry, who lives in South Africa. She’s taught in Skill Centers, Fashion Colleges and Craft Schools and many more venues. She is an expert in dye and print techniques. She’s been working in this industry […]
Continuing along in our series on Art & Entrepreneurship, we’ll talk about several practical ways to actually monetize your creative works and earn some money from what you create. Running a business and creating art are two separate but important issues creators and makers face. The demands of creating make it easy for us to ignore […]
How to Gain Freedom to Continue Expressing Yourself Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. ~ Amy Lowell In the previous article in this series, when I talked about mastering your creative skill for the benefit of others, I […]
The Untold Story of How Money Affects Your Creative Passion “Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.” ~ Andy Warhol I’m certain you’ve heard the statement that making money from your passion kills the passion. How true is this? Just like you, I’ve heard this statement bandied […]