Working Artist

Career Options for Creatives (Finding a Job)

Karen Atkinson | Posted 07.27.2011

Karen Atkinson

Many artists hold down a number of jobs in their life. The key is to find a job that allows you to keep making your work and that is satisfying or at least challenging.

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My Modern Metropolis | Posted by Alice on December 30, 2010 at 2:00pm | Posted 05.25.2011

Though we've evolved over the past few years, there's one central theme to My Modern Met that's never changed. By sharing today's best modern day expe...

Getting Your Sh*t Together: Ask GYST (Keeping Track of Information for a Work of Art)

Karen Atkinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Karen Atkinson

What are the basic pieces of information I should keep track of for each work of art I make and sell? Kimberly B., Painter Los Angeles, CA It is vita...

Creatives at a Crossroads

Janelle Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

Janelle Brown

If the only real option left is to work in advertising, shilling Shrek 11, why would anyone bother? Certainly, people don't fantasize about moving to LA to make viral Pampers commercials.

In Praise of the Working Artist

Ben Lee | Posted 05.25.2011

Ben Lee

I first came to Los Angeles to make an album in 1996. Having grown up in Australia, I had a very romantic, and probably not uncommon, view of Hollywood as one giant star-making machine.