Fusing Two Passions is an Art—And a Science
A prominent alumni of the CHF Art-Business Accelerator program and one of this year’s mentors, Kristin LeVier is living proof that a person can be an artist and a scientist. In her TEDx talk, The Art of Science, Kristin shows how art intertwined with science creates works of beauty. It is only with one foot firmly in both worlds that she is able to imagine and achieve the art that is her life’s work.
Kristin LeVier exemplifies being a thriving artist by taking two of her passions and using them both to strengthen each other—and she isn’t the only one. Many other artists use their skills to enhance both fields in ways that could only be possible with this combined knowledge. LeVier draws her personal inspiration from her molecular biology background, specifically focusing on tentacles, wings, leaves, and nature in motion. The MIT-trained artist links her creative roots to her first time working with a microscope as a young child. This TEDx talk won’t transport you into a science lab, but it will take you on a journey of discovery. Curl up and put your headphones in: it’s time to get inspired.
ROWA Report Breakdown and 100,000 downloads
After two years of hard work, the Clark Hulings Fund Report on the Working Artist is here! Laying out in carefully-researched detail the key part that artists play in today’s economy, our very own CHF data analysis team Daniel DiGriz and Lily Dulberg sat down to talk details on the latest episode of The Thriving ArtistTMpodcast. We now have indisputable proof of the need and demand for business education for artists!
This incredible data shows that we should be investing more in art and artists, and that doing so can change not only the culture, but the economy for the better. The ROWA report isn’t our only good news: we are proud to announce that The Thriving ArtistTM podcast has now passed more than 100,000 downloads! We have reached listeners in over 117 countries and all 50 states. Subscribe today, and listen to the show here. Isn’t it time you joined us?
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Art-Business Fellowships
The CHF Art-Business Accelerator Program is an intensive and interactive business-education program for working artists. Fellows plan pivotal business projects, produce an Investment-Grade Proposal, and acquire a business skill set that's designed to serve them throughout their careers.
Boots-on-the-Ground Education
Boots-on-the-Ground Education
CHF partners with art and business organizations that have a strong presence in a geographic area to bring face-to-face entrepreneurial learning to working artists where and when they need it most. The result is a growing network of partners and resources that ensures widespread reach for crucial labs, workshops, and training.
Self-Directed Digital Learning
Self-Directed Digital Learning
CHF's Digital Learning Portal provides education in formats that working artists already consume. Portable podcasts, expert columns, and how-to videos are here. More detailed and structured Accelerator learning modules are available by registration.
Learning Communities
Learning Communities
Like sticks in a bundle, artists are stronger together. The Artist Federation is a growing professional peer network of visual artists that's managed by artists. Individual chapters engage in skill and referral exchanges, joint entrepreneurial learning, and organization to achieve and maintain centrality in their industry.
Featured Profiles
Executive Fellows in the Art-Business Accelerator
Gregg Chadwick
Executive Fellow
Gregg paints trains and cars with historic significance. It's not just a love for things that move; Gregg sees the incredible draw of these subjects as entry points for collectors who might otherwise be alienated by the tiles and splatters of post-modern aesthetics. There's a whole world of would-be fine art lovers and aesthetes for whom physical objects tied to place and time are a door. [profile]
Willy Bo Richardson
Executive Fellow
Willy puts art in commercial spaces. But how many times do people walk by a framed painting, barely looking? By contrast, how often do people sit in a busy lobby to study art on a pedestal? Willy deletes the distractions–not of the space, but of the trappings of 'artness'. By implanting fine art as fabrics, he produces the full effect and experience of fine art emerging from the space itself, sans the stiff presentation. [profile]
Nadia Fairlamb
Executive Fellow
Nadia uses what's in front of her and teaches others to do the same. Her work is aimed at hospitality and commercial spaces that are interested in local themes (what's in front of you) and art that utilizes locally sourced materials. This is part of Nadia's theorum that the world's success depends on working together and that depends on working first with who and what you see. [profile]
Kristin LeVier
Executive Fellow
Kristin uses the detailed research methods of a molecular biologist to produce wood and metal sculptures that are vastly detailed but elegantly simple, and which connect us to the extraordinary, strange beauty of the natural world. [profile]
Belgin Yucelen
Executive Fellow
Belgin combines ancient aesthetics with high tech tools & processes to address a core issue–what kind of future we want. As cycles of innovation accelerate, we rapidly replace past achievements but, in the process, risk increasing alienation from the civilizations from which we've emerged and polarization toward each other. Just watch the news. [profile]
Blake Conroy
Executive Fellow
Blake exposes the absolute uniqueness of seemingly identical things, so we will care about them. We don't fight hard enough to save things we regard as mere forms or perceive as simply "one of" something. Blake uses layers to unmask otherwise hidden particularities in living things–debunking the notion that every sunflower, cornfield, or monarch butterfly is interchangeable. [profile]
Featured Insights
Columns, Podcasts, Views & Spotlights-On
Data Science in the Arts: Report on the Working Artist—Lily Dulberg
Millennials Aren’t Killing The Art Industry
Infiltrate the Business World in the Name of Art—Noah Scalin
Get Inspired By Pixar’s 4-Part Business Plan
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CHF's Impact
Transforming Artists' Careers
2018 Artist Impact Data
CHF Art-Business Accelerator Program
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Increased Their Total Art Income0%
View Their Art as Their Primary Income Source0%
Increased Their Prices or Profit MarginsSource: CHF 2018 Annual Report
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Working artists already have a job. They aren't looking for a handout. But to become self-sustaining, thriving artists that fill the world with art and fortify our economy with lifelong careers, they need BUSINESS training. YOU can ensure a dozen businesses thrive.
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Why Clark Hulings
The Quintessential Artist-Entrepreneur
The keys to Hulings’ success form a template for how a working artist thrives. The ingredients were the integrity of his craft, the brilliance of personal vision, his refusal to compromise on the essentials, and an unwavering understanding of the fact that, as a professional artist, he was running a business.
Practice Areas
CHF’s educational programs utilize the very practice areas that were key to Hulings’ success, including Sales Strategy, Financial Competence, Marketing from the Brand Narrative, Technology, and Peer Networks.
The Examples
For insight into the ingredients of Hulings' success as a working artist, and for stories—from how he took on the unjust taxation of artists, and how he negotiated a vendor relationship with galleries, to how he got an interfering creative director removed from a project—dig deeper into the Example of Clark Hulings or the Career Blueprint Of Clark Hulings.
