Fractured Atlas is proud to announce the launch of its latest Fractured U. online course: Getting Your Sh*t Together, developed by artist/arts administrator/educator/guru Karen Atkinson.

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Fractured Atlas is proud to announce the launch of its first Fractured U. video workshop: Independent Contractors vs. Employees: What’s the Difference?.

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Fractured Atlas is proud to announce the launch of its latest Fractured U. online course: Social Media Marketing for Arts Professionals.
Social media has revolutionized arts marketing in the 21st Century. The whole infrastructure of the art and entertainment industries has been flipped, dissected, inverted, twisted, exploded and imploded due to technology; the Internet; the seemingly [...]

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This week I was fortunate to have the opportunity to spend a couple of days in Madison, WI at the Bolz Center for Arts Administration. The center’s director, Andrew Taylor, invited me to meet with his MBA seminar students to discuss the state of the arts, Fractured Atlas’s business model, and other exciting things.
This was [...]

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Recently, I’ve been conducting interviews with mid-career artists to locate some consistent practices that have worked for career advancement and business development in the arts. Interestingly, negotiation continues to surface as a critical skill and unfortunate pitfall.

“Artists have to learn business, because they are constantly negotiating…you are constantly negotiating with business people…it’s harder for [...]

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“As a photographer, I am actually a small business owner as much as I am an artist.” – Anonymous Survey Respondent
In our quest to better understand the professional development needs of artists, we went beyond the survey/interviews and researched various external sources to find out what artists, arts managers, and industry experts were saying about career [...]

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