Category: Arts Business Practice

Art is a Business

5/4/2017

The Joys of Matching Passion with Profession
Whether it’s about drawing, sketching or painting – art has acquired the status of business. Few adult artists today, who attended painting classes as children, would have dreamed that one day their love of art would repay them in terms of a profession. But if you ask any prominent art professional about the secret to making a success in the arts, there’s one thing that they will say:
Start out early!

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The Code of Practice for Artists

6/20/2016

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NAVA
National Association of Visual Art
Level 1 The Gunnery
43-51 Cowper Wharf Road
Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
Australia

PO Box 60
Potts Point 1335 NSW Australia
+612 9368 1900
nava@visualarts.net.au

One of the best publications I have seen for artists, it has everything. And it is FREE.

The link will lead you to the download. It provides clear practical and ethical guidelines of standard practices within the art sector. An essential tool for the negotiation of contracts, agreements and conduct of business between art practitioners and galleries, agents, dealers, buyers, sponsors, commissioners and what money an artist should paid.

https://visualarts.net.au/code-of-practice/

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Martina Pook has been involved in the art industry since 1982 and held many positions within the arts scene. With a degree in commercial illustration / graphic design and some classical training in the arts, she is a teaching artist, an art show judge and conducts art workshops and art business presentations and seminars.

Privately, her first passion is Christian humanitarian work, helping neglected and abused children and is deeply interested in the combat against child slavery and human trafficking.

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