The Indispensable Roadmap Artists Need to Navigate Their Careers"The Profitable Artist's chapters address a spectrum of practical topics for working artists." -Artsy.net While all art is unique, the challenges artists face are shared regardless of background, experience, and artistic medium. With decades of experience training and helping artists worldwide, the expert staff of the New York Foundation for the Arts-in conjunction with outside professionals-have compiled a "best practices" approach to planning and organizing an art career. In The Profitable Artist, Second Edition, NYFA has identified common problems, examined specialized areas of strategic planning, finance, marketing, law, and fundraising, and distilled these topics in such a way that readers can digest them and apply them to their own experience and practice. This newly revised edition has made considerable updates to reflect changes in the legal and financial landscapes, the vast shift in the tools and culture of both social media and fundraising, and proven planning methodologies from the startup community. All of this continues to be presented in an accessible manner, which encourages artists to apply the information and techniques in a way that is true to their personal and artistic integrity. This invaluable guide appeals to artists in all disciplines of the literary, media, performing, and visual arts-from recent art school graduates to established artists undertaking new arts businesses to artists seeking more from their careers at any stage.

Reaching Cloud Nine is a real-life chronicle of how a man's soul is linked to a spiritual force that defines our destiny as well as the impact people who enter a person's life have. This a journal-based account of a young man's struggle to share his life with his community, help those in need and then lose it all in the process. The struggle to recapture his body, spirit and soul is heartwarming and motivational, giving the reader insight to the spiritual connection we all have with the universe.

This work contains seven short stories, all of which deal with the human spirit with an undercurrent of Christianity-that within each of us is the capacity to do good or evil.

This work contains seven short stories, all of which deal with the human spirit with an undercurrent of Christianity-that within each of us is the capacity to do good or evil.