EFFECTIVE CAREER STRATEGIES FOR ARTISTS
Thursday, November 6, 2008, 6:00 – 8:30 p.m.
New York Irish Center, 10-40 Jackson Ave., Long Island City
http://www.newyorkirishcenter.org/ Esteemed consultant Jackie Battenfield leads a workshop on the fundamentals of career planning. Strongly recommended for Individual Artist Initiative applicants. Presenter, Jackie Battenfield http://www.jackiebattenfield.com/ From 1981-89, Jackie worked as the Director of The Rotunda Gallery, curating thirty-six exhibitions, and overseeing its development from a tiny, fledgling space to a stable, dynamic arts organization. Jackie left the gallery shortly after realizing she could apply the skills she had developed running it to her own career.
Combining insights into the art world from both a gallery director's and an artist's viewpoint, Jackie sought out exhibition and sales opportunities throughout the country. In time she built up a network of support for her work around the United States and abroad. She is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner award, and a Warren Tanner award. For nearly twenty years, she has made a living from her art and is a popular lecturer on the challenges of sustaining a successful career in the visual arts.
Jackie teaches professional practice classes for visual artists in the graduate program at Columbia University, and the Professional Development Program at the Creative Capital Foundation. She directed the post graduate seminars for The Artist in the Marketplace Program (AIM) at the Bronx Museum of the Arts for over sixteen years. Through these programs she has mentored nearly two thousand artists.
The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love will be published by Da Capo Press for release Spring 2009. It is based on Jackie's art career and the professional skills classes she has taught for over fifteen years.
Interview of Jackie Battenfield by Christopher Howard, editor of CAA News, in Good Business Is the Best Art: Artist in the Marketplace.
CAA News, Newsletter of the College Art Association, November 2005
Registration Admission is free. Registration is required. Space is limited. To register, please email your name, address, telephone number, and artistic discipline to: mblouin@queenscouncilarts.org
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