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OAN Partner Profile: Brooklyn Artists Gym

There’s no sauna and no pool (sorry!), but Brooklyn Artists Gym offers visual artists exactly what they need for a “healthy” career: affordable space and a supportive community.

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The Audience is Always Right: Why Your Work Must Be Marketable

This one might make you upset, but it’s come to my attention that some of you need a swift kick in the ass, so grab your blankie and put your therapist on speed dial and keep reading.
Chad M. Bauman of the venerable Arena Stage recently reported playwrights’ complaints that marketing directors “kill new work” because [...]

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Empowered by Scrap

Artists are natural entrepreneurs. In general, they are innovative, enthusiastic, hard-working, highly intelligent, and resourceful. That last attribute is the subject of this post…resourcefulness.
Entrepreneurs come up with a great idea, then go out and find the resources or develop the capabilities to “make it happen.” Or, they look at what they already have available and [...]

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Featured Member: Available Light Theatre

Available Light Theatre of Columbus, Ohio, is a fellowship of artists dedicated to building a more conscious and compassionate world by creating joyful and profound theatre. In this interview, artistic director Matt Slaybaugh describes his company’s work and its dedication to keeping theatre accessible to all, even during dark economic times.

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Featured Members: Morrigan McCarthy and Alan Winslow - Project Tandem

Documentary photographers Morrigan McCarthy and Alan Winslow are cycling around the United States, aiming to raise awareness about what everyday Americans are doing to help the environment. Entitled “Project Tandem”, their journey will culminate in late 2009 with a multimedia piece for the web, as well as a traveling exhibition of photographs and audio interviews.

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Download + Practice + Upload = Carnegie Hall? Maybe…!

In only the last week I’ve heard about several innovative ways that musicians are using the internet to not only connect with one another, but to collaborate and produce finished pieces of music despite limitations of distance, time and physical space. Good ideas are meant for sharing…

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What Artists Want, Need, and Desire: Generational Demands

More results from our 2008 national survey aimed at better understanding your professional development needs. So far, we have discussed the universal and career phase needs of artists. Now, I’d like to quickly touch on some of the generational needs we discovered in our research.

Generation Y (born between 1980-1994) - The older half of Gen [...]

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