The Fine Artist's Guide to Marketing and Self-Promotion: Innovative Techniques to Build Your Career as an Artist

by Julius Vitali

Overview

Filled with innovative tips and advice for the fine artist on a budget, The Fine Artist's Guide to Marketing and Self-Promotion teaches you how to function as your own press agent. Learn how to create attention grabbing publicity videos, press releases, and e-mails; exhibit and publish your work in magazines and newspapers; assemble grant proposals; write effective résumés; use slides, CDs, Web sites, and other photographic and digital reproductions to get your work into the public eye, and how to qualify for arts-in-education residencies and artists’ communities.

This updated book also features extensive listings of organizations, services, publications, and other vital resources, along with in-depth profiles of successful artists who have developed effective techniques for marketing and promoting their work. If you’re ready to take charge of your art career, you can’t afford to be without the information contained in this handy guide.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781581159875
Publisher:	Skyhorse Publishing
Publication date:	08/01/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	3 MB

Editorial Reviews

These two new books guide the novice through the often painstaking but rewarding process of self-promotion. Vitali has successfully made a living from his art since 1979. Here he provides a comprehensive approach to organizing and building an art career. He includes information on everything from producing your own high-quality promotional slides to the best places to park when delivering a work in New York City. He offers tips on grant writing and working with the media for maximum exposure. Although the annual Artist's and Graphic Designer's Market and Photographer's Market are still more comprehensive references, there should be room on the shelf for Vitali's amazingly detailed and practical guide. President of a publishing services, product development, and licensing consulting firm, Moore describes strategies for success mainly in the commercial world of greeting cards and gift wrap. She gives advice on analyzing the market to discover what is most likely to sell to manufacturers and the general public. Negotiations of license agreements and the pros and cons of hiring a licensing agent are discussed. The second half of the book provides samples of various work-for-hire, license, and agent agreements. For licensing information in a concise form, libraries may want to stick with Caryn R. Leland's Licensing Art & Design (Allworth, 1995); the only advantages of Moore's book are additional sample agreements and a chance to see things more from the giftware manufacturer's viewpoint.Judith Lesso, West Virginia Univ. Libs., Morgantown

Library Journal

The author discusses strategies and techniques for gaining public recognition for art work including marketing, networking, exhibitions, corporate support, grants, preparing a resume and portfolio, and photographing one's work. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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