The Professional Artist Podcast: Art Business Transformations
The Professional Artist Podcast: Art Business Transformations
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If you want to make it in the art world, talent is key - but so is mastering the business side. The Professional Artist Podcast is where fine artists meet commerce.
Co-hosts Miguel L. Mayher and Cristina Demiany guide visual artists through an audio gallery, exploring how to show and sell your art, land commissions, apply for artist grants, art licensing, and much more. This is where you begin growing your art career.
Miguel L. Mayher is the Director of Education at the Professional Artist Association. Previously, he worked with Google Arts & Culture striking partnerships with national museums. He is also a Global Economic Symposium Young Fellow and a One Young World ambassador.
Cristina Demiany is a Senior Art Business Coach. She formerly served as Senior Program Manager at Sotheby’s Institute of Art and as Executive Director of the National Children’s Chorus.
The Professional Artist Association is a global organization dedicated to providing real-world education for visual artists, including painters, sculptors, and fine art photographers.
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The podcast focuses on vital topics for visual artists, including strategies for showcasing and selling art, navigating art commissions, applying for grants, and understanding art licensing. Episodes include insights on building gallery relationships and leveraging digital platforms to create diverse income streams.
If you want to make it in the art world, talent is key – but so is mastering the business side. The Professional Artist Podcast is where fine artists and commerce meet.
Co-hosts Miguel L. Mayher and Cristina Demiany guide visual artists through an audio gallery, exploring how to show and sell your art, land commissions, apply for artist grants, license your art, and much more.
This is where your art career begins to grow.
Miguel L. Mayher is the Director of Education at the Professional Artist Association. Previously, he worked with Google Arts & Culture, striking partnerships with national museums. He is also a Global Economic Symposium Young Fellow and a One Young World Ambassador.
Cristina Demiany is a Senior Art Business Coach at the Professional Artist Association. She formerly served as Senior Program Manager at Sotheby’s Institute of Art and as Executive Director of the National Children’s Chorus.
The Professional Artist Association is a global organization dedicated to providing real-world education for visual artists, including painters, sculptors, and fine art photographers.
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How does an artist actually get their work into a museum?
In this episode of The Professional Artist Podcast, painter Elizabeth Barlow is featured by the Professional Artist Association (https://professionalartist.com/join), the world’s fastest-growing global community for committed fine artists.
Based in California, Elizabeth has built a career that has taken her work into museums, hospitals, churches, corporate collections, and the San Francisco Opera.
Along the way, she has learned that museum opportunities often begin long before an artist ever asks a curator to consider their work.
In this episode, Elizabeth shares how artists can build genuine relationships with museums and curators, what to do when you don’t already have a connection inside an institution, and why supporting museums can be an investment in your own career.
She also explores a less obvious route into museum collections and why some opportunities need to be created rather than waited for.
“I view it as an investment in my art to get to know people, to support them and to support the museum.”
—Elizabeth Barlow
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
01:38 Empress – From Portraits in Absentia to Flower Portraits
05:13 Getting Into Museum Collections – The Long Game of Showing Up
08:28 The San Francisco Opera Donation – A Gift That Led to a Commission
09:47 The Phoenix Rose – What Survived the Fire
12:20 When Donating Work Makes Strategic Sense
13:52 Approaching Institutions Cold
15:18 Transfiguration – The Church Commission
18:17 Final Advice
Connect with Elizabeth
Website: https://www.elizabethbarlowart.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elizabethbarlowartist/
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