Successful Artist's Career Guide

With real-world advice on everything from bidding for freelance jobs and pricing artwork, to filing for taxes and getting health insurance, to building a network of connections within the community, readers will learn to navigate the business of being an artist. Exercises and worksheets will help readers figure out where their interests and strengths lie and how to use these to their advantage. Interviews with artists who have carved out successful careers for themselves and an index of useful organizations and list of additional reading provide further resources to would-be professional artists.