With the COVID-19 pandemic's devastating effect on practicing artists, Assets for Artists has redesigned its free business and financial education programming to provide artists with more distance-learning opportunities that focus on pandemic recovery and largely retain the intimate cohort-focused style of in-person workshops. Taxes for Artists & Preparing for a Downturn … [Read more...]
Useful Links
Online Sales and e-Commerce for Craft Artists
MASS MoCA's Assets for Artists presents: Online Sales and e-Commerce for Craft Artists with Ayumi Horie and Alicia Goodwin on Thursday, October 29, 2020, 6:00 - 8:00 PM EDT. Are you preparing to sell handmade work during the holiday season, but have questions on maximizing your online sales? Assets for Artists is hosting a new webinar on that very topic, specifically … [Read more...]
Captioning Your Videos
If you've made a video but haven't added captions, have you really said enough? You've created a video. It could be a work of art itself, or a documentation of another work (a dance or interactive installation, for instance), or a reading of a literary work, or an explanatory video, or any number of the ways creative people utilize moving images. If your video includes sound … [Read more...]
Arts News Roundup Jun 29
A periodic news round-up for Massachusetts artists. From March to May, we put together assemblages of news related to the COVID-19 crisis. COVID-19-related news has been less frequent of late, but there is no shortage of important news. So we thought we'd continue with these updates. Chatting about Reopening Plans Responding to the COVID-19 crisis, Mass Cultural … [Read more...]
COVID-19 Arts News Roundup May 28
A periodic round-up for artists of news related to the COVID-19 crisis. State Budget Update The pandemic has canceled, delayed, and/or scrambled plans across the cultural sector. You may be curious how this applies to our annual state budget process. Mass Cultural Council's Communications Director Bethann Steiner explains how COVID-19 is affecting – and possibly delaying … [Read more...]