Marketing Crafts And Visual Arts

This guide provides basic knowledge of marketing techniques and intellectual property for artisans, craft entrepreneurs and visual artists. It identifies relevant IP issues and ways of protecting creative output and lays out the costs and benefits. The chapters include: understanding the value of intellectual property; linking intellectual property to business development and marketing throughout the business cycle; how to protect crafts and visual arts; case studies.

This Guide provides basic knowledge and understanding of marketing techniques and of intellectual property (IP) issues to artisans, craft entrepreneurs and visual artists. It gives examples of situations where obtaining formal IP protection ought to be considered, explains how to implement marketing and IP strategies, and presents case studies of managing IP assets. Bibliographical references are included.

Addresses and telephone numbers are provided for hundreds of contacts, complemented by easy-to-read commentary and special interviews.

The classic handbook for launching and sustaining a career that "explodes the romantic notion of the starving artist," (The New York Times) with a brand-new chapter on Internet art marketing Now in its sixth edition, How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist is the definitive guide to taking control of your career and making a good living in the art world. Drawing on nearly three decades of experience, Caroll Michels offers a wealth of insider's information on getting into a gallery, being your own PR agent, and negotiating prices, as well as innovative marketing, exhibition, and sales opportunities for various artistic disciplines. She has also added a new section on digital printmaking and marketing in this emerging field. Most notably, this sixth edition contains an entirely new chapter: "Art Marketing on the Internet." Michels offers criteria for selecting an ideal Web designer for your online portfolio and for organizing your Web presence, and shares proven methods for attracting curators, dealers, and private clients to your site. She also addresses vital legal concerns in the age of e-commerce, including copyrighting and registering your art, and finally, the appendix of resources, consistently updated online at Michels's site the Artist Help Network, is fully revised.

A technical manual to assist artists and creative practitioners to market their work. Covers topics such as market research, pricing work and online marketing and is illustrated with examples, exercises and case studies.

Getting art there: an artist's marketing manual.