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Your Art Will Save Your Life
- Author
- Beth Pickens
- Narrator
- Beth Pickens
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 20 November 2018
- Run Time
- 2 hours 23 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
As a teenager visiting the Andy Warhol Museum, Beth Pickens realized the importance of making art. As an adult, she has worked as a consultant empowering artists. Intimate yet practical, Your Art Will Save Your Life helps artists build a sustainable practice while navigating the world of MFAs, residencies, and institutional funding.
Critics Review
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“An electrically inspiring, politically fresh, and class-conscious guide for artists who wish to engage more deeply with their process, their careers, and their lives.”
Michelle Tea, author of Modern Tarot
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“Essential reading for anyone who has ever felt overwhelmed by art, activism, or adulting.”
Ann Friedman, cohost of Call Your Girlfriend
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“Beth Pickens’s theories on art and practice have changed and enriched my life.”
Nicole Georges, author of Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home
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“Your Art Will Save Your Life is the artist’s guidebook to create, thrive, and survive amid any political shitstorm.”
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“A dense, power-punch of info.”
Portland (OR) Mercury
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“This funny, tender, totally usable guide provides a bundle of simple methods that will allow you to focus on creative projects, reenergize, grow joy, and take risks.”
Harry Dodge, artist
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“If you are a person who needs to make art in order to function, this book is from your best, smartest, coolest, most insightful, wise, learned, practical, savvy, no-bullshit friend.”
Lucy Corin, author of One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses
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Details
- Author
- Beth Pickens
- Narrator
- Beth Pickens
- Duration
- 2 hours 23 minutes
- Release Date
- 20 November 2018
- ISBN
- 9781982593780
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Memory improvement and thinking techniques, Art: financial aspects, History of art, Popular culture, The arts: general issues
Synopsis
As a teenager visiting the Andy Warhol Museum, Beth Pickens realized the importance of making art. As an adult, she has worked as a consultant empowering artists. Intimate yet practical, Your Art Will Save Your Life helps artists build a sustainable practice while navigating the world of MFAs, residencies, and institutional funding.
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