I recently wrote an article called “The Myth of the Starving Artist—and what it can teach us about job security.” In it, I discuss how society’s attitude towards art parallels how people feel across industries about their jobs and companies. We’re in a culture that devalues creativity and values pursuing a paycheck over the purpose […]
Tesseracting: My Highly Personal Story About Creativity
When I was in 2nd grade, a teacher handed me the book A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle. What a joy for me to read! In the book, L’Engle posits the existence of something called a tesseract. As the image above demonstrates, a tesseract is the act of bringing together two distinct points to […]
Things I Love, Weekend Edition
this week’s favorite painting is Bring on the Wonder by EffyWild This week brought an assortment of fun and silly stuff. Here are my favorites from across the web: Jon Stewart’s sendup of the death of Osama Bin Laden. Id-centric. Callous. Crude at times. Completely cathartic if you’re an American. Should we be less cavalier […]
Turning Creative Ideas into Cash: Emily Lutzker from Open Invo
[audio:https://theabundantartist.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Open_Invo.mp3|titles=Open_Invo] A few months ago I had the opportunity to meet Emily Lutzker from OpenInvo.com. Emily is a sharp artist who had a great idea: What if you could help hundreds of artists sell their creative ideas? If you’ve been reading The Abundant Artist for a while you may know that I’m a big fan […]
How Much Does It Cost You To Do Your Creative Thing?
Nicole Crist is a dancer, performer, teacher, choreographer, trainer, director. She has a company called Altitude Aerials, where she is the self-dubbed head aerialista. As a self-employed creative I’ve been pondering for years how much I charge for my art. I continuously go over past proposals and invoices; work and re-work the numbers to figure […]
