Updating the calendar, checking deadlines, choosing show entries, negotiating exhibits, tracking expenses, promoting work....whew! When do I actually get to make art? That is the true struggle of the artist. All we really want to do is make things - always more ideas than time - but we also need to attend to the business end of our creative lives. The care and feeding of the art career is multi-faceted and it is really easy to ignore the part where we don't get to draw, paint, cut, paste or sculpt.
In a sense, creating is the reward for tending to the business side. And tending to the business hopefully allows us to show our work, sell our work, buy supplies, pay some bills, and actually feel like a grown-up in the art biz. It's definitely a circular world: one task feeds the other!
Business is my to-do list today, and the reward for those jobs well done is studio time. Hurray!
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