Starting Your Career As An Artist

Starting Your Career as an Artist is a comprehensive guide full of effective tools and sound advice for artists seeking to advance their professional careers. Veteran art career professionals Angie Wojak and Stacy Miller show aspiring artists how to evaluate their goals, create a plan of action, and use their talents to build a productive life in the art world. Chapters cover topics essential to the emerging artist, such as building community through networking, collaborating, and finding mentors; setting up a studio; health and safety for artists; artists#xE2;#xAC;" resumes and CVs; developing marketing plans; finding alternative exhibition venues; and refining career aspirations. In addition, the book includes inspiring and insightful interviews with professional artists and well-known players in the art scene.#xA0;

Angle Wojak is the director of career services at Parsons The New School for Design. Trained as a painter and printmaker, she earned her MFA from the University of Missouri and her BFA in illustration from the School of Visual Arts. Stacy Miller has her Ed.D. from Teachers College Columbia University and currently teaches in the photography department at Parsons The New School for Design. She earned her MA in Museum Leadership at Bank Street College of Education in New York City and her BFA in sculpture and media studies at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.