Making It in the Art World: New Approaches to Galleries, Shows, and Raising Money [Paperback]

Brainard Carey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 15, 2011

Everything you need to know to turn your artistic passion into an income!

Learn how today’s artists survive, exhibit, and earn money, without selling out! This book explains how to be a professional artist and new methods to define and realize what success means. Whether you’re a beginner, a student, or a career artist looking to be in the best museum shows, this book provides ways of advancing your plans on any level.

Making It in the Art World is an invaluable resource for artists at every stage, offering readers a plethora of strategies and helpful tips to plan and execute a successful artistic career. Topics include how to evaluate your own work, how to submit art, how to present work to the public, how to avoid distractions in the studio, and much more.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

"The global art world of the 21st century is increasingly complex, and
hard-hearted.  Tens of thousands of art school graduates and
self-educated artists enter the scene every year, and in their own way,
each wants to make a living from their work, while pursuing a
meaningful career. The prospects for success are slim, yet the flow
of new talent continues unabated.

In a remarkably useful guidebook for artists trying to find their
way, the artist Brainard Carey has spelled out in a clear and concise
manner, a series of strategies and techniques that, taken as a whole,
are the equivalent of that elusive course in real-world preparedness
that most art schools gloss over or simply ignore.  In addition to
his thoughtful and thorough approach to the subject, Carey's candor
and complete lack of cynicism and posturing makes this book a
must-read for any emerging artist."
-David Ross, 

Writer, curator. Formerly, director, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Boston Institute of Contemporary Art

About the Author

Brainard Carey was born in Manhattan, New York, and grew up in Yonkers. After attending undergraduate art school at SUNY Purchase, he moved to Rhode Island and opened a gallery and began publishing a literary magazine. Carey then moved back to New York City, where he met Delia Bajo, and cofounded Praxis, which was invited to be in the Whitney Biennial in 2002 and to be in a solo show there in 2007, as well as other venues around the world. Carey also has a mentoring/ educational business that helps artists to write grants, exhibit, and advance their careers. He splits his time between New York City and a studio in New Haven, Connecticut, where he has a radio show on Yale radio WYBC called The Art World Demystified.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Allworth Press (November 15, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1581158688
• ISBN-13: 978-1581158687
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #219,772 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #77 in Books > Arts & Photography > Business of Art

More About the Author

Brainard Carey was born in Manhattan, raised in Yonkers, NY, and is a conceptual artist and author with his wife, Delia Carey who is also an author and artist and lives in New York City and New Haven with their son.
Carey publishes an educational newsletter to develop the professional careers of artists.

http://www.yourartmentor.com

http://www.twobodies.com

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical Visionary, November 27, 2011

By 

trudonna - See all my reviews

This review is from: Making It in the Art World: New Approaches to Galleries, Shows, and Raising Money (Paperback)

I am going to begin this review by making use of some of the advice in Brainard's book and gush a bit.

THANK YOU!!!! Thank you for your time, your openness, your thoughtfulness, your savvy... Thank you for sharing. Thank you for bringing the facts and fictions to light and considering the whole person as artist. Thank you for repeating things we should all know but often don't consider. Thank you for setting up the workbook in a specific and doable fashion. Thank you for all you do.

If you are an artist old, young, fresh or worn out, just beginning or well into the artistic life this book has ideas, answers, encouragement, real life examples and steps to follow. You can use it as a jumping off place and/or as a plan to live your life the way you choose.

I believe the "creative" path is given less honor and acclaim in our daily lives, social strata, financial considerations, etc. than it deserves. There is a line in a movie I adore "Tea with Mussolini" that hangs with me. " to take part in the creative life is to be a part of the divine plan." That may be a bit of a summary, not the exact words, but you get the gist. This book if widely read and the suggestions followed by the creatives of this world, the next world will see us differently.

I could hardly get through the whole book and on to writing this review for my own mind and heart clicking off all of the ideas and dreams and possibilities for my own creative life that reading it was instigating. I am so glad that I am a member of Brainard's mentoring email program so I can remain intimately under his influence.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical, real, encouraging, November 19, 2011

By 

T. Lloyd - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Making It in the Art World: New Approaches to Galleries, Shows, and Raising Money (Paperback)

Brainard Carey's "Art Mentor" emails were the most encouraging, relevant and practical art advice I have ever received. He is an invaluable resource when it comes to thinking beyond the canvas or the conventional. It is because of his ideas and perspective (be courageous, simply ask, develop relationships and community) that I launched a non-profit arts collective specifically targeting an ignored demographic. A year later we boast a small membership of 30 to 50 national and international dynamic females over the age of 40, we have a growing social media following and we have a familiar name within our Los Angeles arts community.

I don't think I would have had the courage, or downright audacity to what I am doing (and rather successfully) had I not had access to Brainard Carey. I believe his ideas and advice are some of the best and I wholeheartedly recommend this book to any artist at any level of their career. It truly is a must have for you library.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, January 9, 2012

By 

Liane - See all my reviews

This review is from: Making It in the Art World: New Approaches to Galleries, Shows, and Raising Money (Paperback)

What a joy to find such an accessible, insightful, encouraging author in this world where many artists (like myself) feel their paths are unclear and their talents, unexplored.
This book, like an angel, falls into your lap at just the right time before you give up on your dreams of being a professional, successful and thriving artist. There IS a place for us in this world! And this book reminds us that it can be a KIND world.
This book shattered many of my long-lived visions of 'starving artist' as the only option. I would recommend this author to anyone wishing to re-kindle their passions and wishing to make a solid LIVING out of them.
Brainard Carey has reminded me, as Henry David Thoreau said, to ''Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.''