Keep that Art Career Mooooooving!!! Clemson University's Gunnin Library Art & Art History: Professional Resources Page!

Check our Clemson University's Gunnin Library's Art & Art History: Professional Resources Page!

Art & Life

• The Art Life: On Creativity and Career
  

  Published by the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
  ARCH N66 .A78 2012
• Seven Days in the Art World
  

  By Sarah Thornton. A behind-the-scenes day in the life of seven art venues: The auction, the crit, the fair, the prize, the magazine, the studio visit, the biennale.
  N8600 .T485 2008 Cooper Library, 1st floor.

Funding!

• Artists communities : a directory of residencies that offer time and space for creativity
  

  ARCH REF NX110 .A767 2005
• Artists & writers colonies : retreats, residencies, and respites for the creative mind
  

  ARCH REF NX110 .B69 2000
  Directory of artists' colonies, patrons, fellowships, and scholarships.
• Guide to Getting Arts Grants
  

  ARCH NX705.5.U6 L53 2006
• InfoEd SMARTS at Clemson (FAQ)
  

  Set up your profile to receive e-mail alerts of new federal, corporate, and non-profit funding opportunities which match your criteria on a daily basis via InfoEd SMARTS. Here's all the information you need to get trained and get started.
• The American Center for Artists
  

  Offers guidance on both private and public sources of grants for artists.
• The Foundation Center's Guide to Grantseeking on the Web.
  

  HG177 .F68 2003 ed. Cooper Library
• National Endowment for the Arts
  

  Note that public money is reserved for public arts organizations-- unless your work qualifies as "folk or traditional arts." In which case, the NEA invites you to apply for a grant.
• South Carolina Arts Commission
  

  Look here for details of this fiscal year's grants to individual artists. Note that fellowships in visual arts or crafts are not offered every year.
• United States Artists
  

  United States Artists (USA) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to investing in America's finest artists and to illuminating the value of artists to society. USA Fellowship grants of $50,000 each are awarded to 50 outstanding performing, visual, media, and literary artists every year. Learn more about their Fellows selection process.

Art Career & Marketing Guides

• Arts & Numbers: A Financial Guide for Artists, Writers, Performers, and Other Members of the Creative Class
  

  ARCH HG179 .L88 2013
• How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist: Selling Yourself Without Selling Your Soul
  

  ARCH N6505 .M46 2009
• Accelerating on the Curves: The Artist's Roadmap to Success
  

  ARCH N8350 .A23 2010
• Advanced Strategies for Marketing Art: Innovative Ways to Boost Your Art Career
  

  ARCH N8353 .S625 2011
• Art & Reality: The New Standard Reference Guide and Business Plan for Actively Developing Your Career as an Artist
  

  ARCH N8600 .A19 1997
• Art Market Research : A Guide to Methods and Sources
  

  ARCH N5200 .M39 2006
• Art Marketing 101: A Handbook for the Fine Artist
  

  ARCH N8353 .S63 2004
• Art Marketing Handbook: Art Marketing in the 21st Century
  

  ARCH REF N8600 .G6597 2003
• The Artist's Guide to New Markets: Opportunities to Show and Sell Art Beyond Galleries
  

  ARCH N8600 .H33 1998
• The Artist's Resource Handbook
  

  ARCH N8600 .G69 1996
• The Artist-Gallery Partnership: A Practical Guide to Consigning Art
  

  ARCH REF KF947 .C7 1998
• Business and Legal Forms for Fine Artists
  

  ARCH KF390.A7 C68 2005 + ARCH Media (CD-ROM)
• The Business of Art: Markets, Auctions, Appraisals, Galleries
  

  A wonderful subject guide by Susan Craig, Art & Architecture Librarian, University of Kansas.
• The Business of Being An Artist (4th ed.)
  

  ARCH N8600 .G7 2010
• Fine Art Publicity: The Complete Guide for Galleries and Artists
  

  ARCH N8600 .A2 2005
• The Fine Artist's Career Guide: Making Money in the Arts and Beyond
  

  ARCH N6505 .G657 2004
• The Fine Artist's Guide to Marketing and Self Promotion
  

  ARCH N8600 .V57 2003
• The Potter's Professional Handbook
  

  ARCH TT920 .B7 1999
• The Practical Handbook for the Emerging Artist
  

  ARCH N6505 .L39 2002

Portfolio Resources

• The Architect's Portfolio : Planning, Design, Production
  

  ARCH NA1996 .L84 2010
• Building Design Portfolios: Innovative Concepts for Presenting Your Work
  

  ARCH NC1001 .E48 2006
• Designing a Digital Portfolio
  

  NC1001 .B355 2010 (Cooper Library, 1st floor)
• Digital Portfolio : 26 Design Portfolios Unzipped
  

  OVERSIZE NC1000 .M3 2000 (Cooper, 2nd floor)
• The Graphic Designer's Guide to Portfolio Design
  

  NC1001 .M94 2005 [Cooper Library, 1st floor]
• Marketing your Creative Portfolio : Making the Leap from Creating a Portfolio to Getting a Job as a Professional Creative : A Workbook for Visual/Spatial Learners
  

  ARCH N8350 .H86 2003
• Show Case : Developing, Maintaining, and Presenting a Design-tech Portfolio for Theatre and Allied Fields
  

  2nd ed., published in 2011. (electronic book)

All of this is thanks to:

Your Librarian

Kathy Edwards 

kathye@clemson.edu 

Emery A. Gunnin Architecture Library
2-112 Lee Hall
864.656.4289