The Art Biz
Looking for art career inspiration and ideas while you’re working in the studio or schlepping your art across the country? Alyson Stanfield helps you be a more productive artist, a more empowered artist, and a more successful artist.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 240
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
My Best Practices for Working with an Assistant (#59)
Four and a half years ago I hired the best assistant I have ever had at Art Biz Success. She has been loyal, prompt, and 200% dependable.
She was 21 years old at the time—about to turn 22—and had jus…
00:19:18 |
Thu 20 Aug 2020
Adding E-Commerce to Your Website with Lynn Goldstein (#58)
Why wouldn't you make it easier for people to buy art directly from you?
That's what Lynn Goldstein thought. She built a shopping cart for her website earlier this year. And the sales rolled in immed…
00:48:03 |
Thu 16 Jul 2020
Elevating Women and People of Color with Adri Norris (#57)
Adri Norris was born in Barbados and raised in New York and New Mexico. A former U.S. Marine, she says she was raised to be a leader—to help people and improve lives.
Adri is on a mission to tell sto…
00:52:28 |
Thu 09 Jul 2020
How to Name Your Art Business (#56)
One of the first steps an artist makes when turning professional is to decide on an art business name, and many new artists make this more complicated than it should be.
Allow me to bottom line this …
00:15:56 |
Thu 25 Jun 2020
Artists Help Feed America with Sandra Felemovicius (#55)
Sandra was born in Mexico City and received her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1995. She uses lines, marks, patterns, and textures to speak metaphorically and poetically of thi…
00:43:29 |
Thu 18 Jun 2020
Silence=Complicity #BlackLivesMatter (#54)
This is a special episode of the Art Biz Podcast, which features my recent comments about #BlackLivesMatter on social media and to my students and subscribers.
I don’t know where I’ll be going from h…
00:09:15 |
Mon 15 Jun 2020
Embracing a New Meaning for Her Sculpture During Covid with Carmen Mariscal (#53)
Born in California, raised in Mexico City, Carmen Mariscal had been living in Paris for many years when our paths crossed. She's been sheltering in place with her family in the north of France during…
00:40:50 |
Thu 11 Jun 2020
Making Art While Grieving Loss with Jan Heaton (#52)
For the past 11 years, Jan Heaton has been grieving at the same time she has had an active art career. First was the 10 years of her daughter's illness. Then, in 2019, her daughter's passing.
I felt …
00:51:19 |
Fri 22 May 2020
An Imperfect Journaling Practice (#51)
On the Art Biz Podcast I usually talk with artists who have a studio practice and a business lesson to share. But I’ve been changing things up during Covid-19, as I’ve wanted to focus on what you can…
00:45:20 |
Thu 07 May 2020
Writing Your Artist Statement (#50)
In this episode I want to talk about a document you can revisit (or perhaps face for the first time) that gives you power (control) over how your art is perceived.
Yes, I’m talking about your artist …
00:27:11 |
Thu 30 Apr 2020
A Year of Cleaning with Daryl Johnson (#49)
Daryl D. Johnson gathers inspiration for her paintings of clouds from kayaking, gardening, and motorcycling. The views are familiar, but the subtext is the underlying chi, the sweeping momentum.
She …
00:38:21 |
Thu 23 Apr 2020
Why Make Art Now (#48)
During the Covid-19 outbreak, the Art Biz Podcast will focus on what you can do now to stay in control of your art business.
Before you can even begin to think about business at a time like this, you…
00:14:22 |
Thu 16 Apr 2020
Using Real Mail to Delight (#47)
During the Covid-19 outbreak, I am taking a break from the usual format. The Art Biz Podcast will focus on what you can do now to stay in control of your art business.
This episode has a huge happine…
00:11:24 |
Wed 08 Apr 2020
Structure Your Days to Be in Control of Your Art Business Now (#46)
For the foreseeable future, I’m dedicating the Art Biz Podcast to what you can do now to stay in control of your art business. It’s just going to be me talking. Episodes will be shorter and more freq…
00:13:20 |
Wed 25 Mar 2020
The Impatient Artist: How Much Time Will Your Art Career Take? Encore (#45)
Cynthia Morris helps writers, artists and entrepreneurs make their big dreams a powerful reality. Cynthia is a certified coach, teacher, author and artist. In 1999, she founded Original Impulse, a bo…
00:38:04 |
Thu 12 Mar 2020
A Live Painting Business with Jennie Tucker (#44)
In 2014 then-promising artist Jennie Tucker received a challenge out of the blue from a friend: Paint my wedding. At my wedding. In front of all the guests.
Most of the artists I know and love would …
00:47:48 |
Thu 27 Feb 2020
Turning Journaling into Audio for Your Art Show with Cathy Read (#43)
One of the most important lessons in my course, Magnetic You, involves meditating on your art. You read that right. Meditating on your art. ****I insist that art speaks when you give it the time and …
00:34:39 |
Thu 13 Feb 2020
How Art Biz Success Is Evolving in 2020 (#42)
Art Biz Success has been around since 2002, but we have probably undergone more changes in our business in the last two years than in the previous ten years combined.
In this episode I'm joined by te…
00:45:39 |
Thu 30 Jan 2020
Art Safaris and Consistent Promotion with Alison Nicholls (#41)
Alison Nicholls leads Art Safaris in South Africa for National Geographic. The two back-to-back sessions sell out every year, and she loves teaching in this environment.
Alison gives equal weight to …
00:41:47 |
Thu 23 Jan 2020
Focusing on Making Work That Matters with Suzanne Gibbs (#40)
Suzanne Gibbs is an artist and author based in Portland, Oregon.
Two years ago, she entered my Art Biz Inner Circle and began taking full advantage of everything that was offered. As an aside, althou…
00:39:44 |
Thu 02 Jan 2020
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