Here’s a breakdown of tax changes for those running a creative business, from Minerva Financial Art’s blog. Elaine Luttrull provides a comprehensive summary of the updates you can expect for …
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Graduating Fellows
18 Fellows are completing a rigorous graduate program for working visual artists–The Business Accelerator Program. This is the second year CHF has offered the program, in which participating Fellows gain …
Year-end Fundraiser
Inspired by the success of CHF’s Giving Tuesday campaign, it has launched an end-of-year fundraising campaign. Funds will be used to add substantial capability and content to the Clark Hulings Foundation Learning …
Cook Better Sales Letters And You’ll Bring More People to the Table
You hear this phrase, “the art of the sales letter” and it sounds like there’s a magic formula, or that it can only be done by a guru. And yet, …
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Advanced Fellowships Awarded
CHF is thrilled to award advanced fellowships to 13 Fellows for the 2018 Business Accelerator Program. 18 Fellows completed all requirements for the original one-year fellowship, including each honing a …
This Is Why We Give – November 2017 newsletter
Dear Friends: CHF is participating in Giving Tuesday, which means if you donate today on CHF’s Facebook page, your donation can be matched. Your donation at any other time is, …
Take Back Your Work: A response to #nosurprise
It is a watershed moment for awareness of workplace sexual harassment and as many working artists know, the art world is no exception. Recently, Artforum’s famed publisher resigned amongst multiple sexual …
Digital Art Market Innovations: How to Engage Online and Off
Elizabeth Corkery is an installation artist and CHF Business Accelerator Fellow (2015-2016). Elizabeth, in conversation with CHF’s editorial coordinator, discusses the development of online art sales, and strategies that are …
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Fail Better – October 2017 newsletter
Dear Friends: This month’s Thriving Artist Podcast is full of advice to artists on the right ways to work and engage with museums: Seth Hopkins breaks down how “we can make the market bigger …
The Power of Rejection
This month at CHF, we’re talking about failing better—dealing with our failures and rejections in ways that are constructive instead of stagnating. In their blog post Use Rejection as …
How to Network and Gain Visibility
Art has long been driven by networks—as much so in Renaissance Italy and 19th Century France as in today’s globalized art world. The visibility of a contemporary artist is often …
Making Art Work in the 21st Century – September 2017 newsletter
Dear Friends: It wasn’t so long ago that the word “podcast” was coined. Now it has its own day—September 30 (see below). Just one more example of the rapidity with which …
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Marketing ‘Difficult’ Art – CHF Interviews Janet Culbertson
Janet Culbertson is an award-winning eco artist who has been making art for over five decades. In this conversation with Jennifer Orbom, Janet discusses marketing ‘difficult’ art, her business’ evolution, …
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Dark Side of the Moon – August 2017 newsletter
Dear Friends: I have spent a lot of time around artists (“tell us something we don’t know,” you’re thinking). I have also spent significant time developing strategic plans of all kinds, …
How an Art Institution Can Help You Develop the Business Plan – CHF Interviews Frank Juliano
Frank Juliano is an exceptional storyteller. As Executive Director of Reeves-Reed Arboretum, his high standards for the garden, exhibited art, and educational programs aim to elevate how visitors experience nature. …
