I’ve worked with creative and performing artists for thirty-five years as a family therapist, couples’ counselor, and creativity coach. Over the course of that time I’ve acquired a good feel for why...
You have an important gallery show coming in a few months but you’ve fallen behind on your painting. Next week you’re supposed to meet with the gallery owner and you really don’t want to tell him how...
Artists who hope to make money need customers. The tens of millions of tourists who travel annually comprise one category of customer. Some tourists come to a given locale such as Santa Fe,...
A creative escape is a little time-out-of-time that you carve from your schedule to devote to running away to your art. A creative escape is like getting away for a romantic weekend with your lover...
To celebrate Professional Artist's 30th anniversary, we are gifting our readers with 30 complimentary articles from our archive. This is a complimentary copy of an article from the February 2008...
Many artists are producing visual art in one sort or another. It is a straightforward matter of supply and demand that not all of these people will be able to make money from their efforts. If you...
I believe it was a ’56 Buick. I know it cost me $50. It was my first car, and I drove it mostly drunk — I was drinking quite a bit in the Army. I would leave Fort Dix sober, it being only Friday...
Are you worried that you may be repeating yourself in your art and not moving forward? A creativity coaching client recently said to me, “I just painted something I really like. But it looks an awful...
Virtually all of us tend to waste small increments of time and throw away 15 minutes here and 40 minutes there, arguing that we are doing so much already that those windfalls need not be used...
For you, creating art is one of your life purposes, and one of your meaning opportunities, which are the activities that you use to define yourself. Are there others? There probably need...
