How do we live in a robust culture? How do we produce a robust culture at a time when we are fracturing, polarized, and creative enterprise is an afterthought?Let's remind ourselves of where we are. If you look around, you see political fragili

Virtual & Analog Art—Daniel DiGriz

Nov 26th, 2021 16m 13s

“We’re going to need more art—all of it—to solve the world’s challenging problems. Creative intelligence is what it takes to inject life into the culture, to drive effective leadership, to drive new ideas. We don’t have to choose. We can have o

Clark Hulings—Archetype of the Independent Artist

Mar 24th, 2021 54m

James D. Balestrieri is the Clark Hulings Foundation’s Writer-in-Residence. He is currently working on a new book on Hulings, Clark Hulings: Quantum Realist. Jim is the proprietor of Balestrieri Fine Arts, a consulting firm that specializes in

Stock Art Can Go to Hell: Corporate Art Without Compromise

Jan 26th, 2021 1h 20m

Artist and illustrator Melissa Whitaker works full-time for companies across the US, bringing her signature pop-graphic-noir style to their branding and storytelling. Melissa’s clients include Madpipe and Free Agent Source. Commissions include

Virtualize Your Art Career: Part 2

Oct 14th, 2020 35m 5s

In the second episode of this two-part podcast, Carolyn Edlund weighs-in on how artists can shift their sales strategies and build an art business that will weather these tough times, as well as being resilient to future changes. Contrary to po

Virtualize Your Art Career: Part 1

Sep 30th, 2020 53m 44s

Carolyn Edlund is the Sales & Events Director at the Clark Hulings Foundation, and our resident subject matter expert in Sales Strategy. In the first episode of this two-part podcast, Carolyn joins us to answer questions about making a creative

Selling Art in The New Normal: Marketplace, Native Communities, and Virtual Reality

Aug 29th, 2020 1h 19m

The Virtual Edition of The Santa Fe Indian Market offers an amazing atmosphere of delight and awe at a time when most of us are cooped up in our own worlds of social distance. SWAIA Executive Director Kim Peone joins CHFs Executive Director Eli

Build Your Own Future With Or Without The Establishment

Jun 8th, 2020 30m 57s

Artist Ashley Longshore has never waited for industry gatekeepers to open doors for her: she’s a wildly successful, self-made entrepreneur. Owner of The Longshore Studio Gallery in New Orleans and two high-traffic Instagram profiles, her partne

Lockdown: Artists Double Down on Building Robust Businesses and Self-Help Networks

May 1st, 2020 50m 8s

It’s a timely moment to be interviewing the team from CERF+, a leading nonprofit focused on safeguarding artists’ livelihoods nationwide. Founded in 1985—by and for materials-based artists and craftspeople—their core services are education prog

These Artists Graduated Training But are Entrepreneurs for Life

Feb 19th, 2020 1h 6m

Find out how working artists become thriving artists. This is the biggest podcast we’ve ever recorded, featuring 18 voices: the graduating class of our most recent Art-Business Accelerator cohort, their Advisors, and CHF team members Daniel DiG

Data Science in the Arts: Report on the Working Artist

Nov 21st, 2019 37m 40s

Two years in the making, CHF’s Report on the Working Artist (ROWA) is a truly groundbreaking piece of research: the first of its kind demonstrating artists’ pivotal role in our changing economy. In this engaging conversation, CHF’s data analysi

Infiltrate the Business World in the Name of Art

Aug 17th, 2019 56m 52s

Noah Scalin is an artist based in Richmond, Virginia, whose sculpture, installation, and photography use everyday items reassembled in new contexts. Noah did a major installation in Times Square in the winter of 2019, and is working with The Kr

Artists Are Solving Atomic-Level Problems

Jul 12th, 2019 59m 35s

Cyndi Conn is the Executive Director of Creative Santa Fe, a non-profit arts and community development organization that emphasizes innovative collaboration between diverse groups of people with varying skills, knowledge, experiences and opinio

Classical Skills for Modern Art Careers: The Case for Training and Tradition

Jun 15th, 2019 32m 36s

Mandy Theis @mandyfineartist is a figurative painter and art educator, and graduate of the Aristides Atelier. She is the president and co-founder of The Da Vinci Initiative—a foundation that supports skill-based learning in K-12 art-classrooms.

Fearlessly Take On The Big Daddy Ugly Goal

May 29th, 2019 45m 34s

Willy Bo Richardson is a painter based in Santa Fe, New Mexico and an alumnus of CHF’s Art-Business Accelerator program. Visually, his work is abstract and colorful, with a repeating motif of stripes. Willy subtracts the trappings that conditio

If You Build It, They Will Ignore It. Unless…

May 9th, 2019 50m 9s

Mary McBride is the chair of the Arts and Cultural Management and Design Management graduate programs at Pratt Institute School of Art in New York City. An executive coach, a frequent international speaker, and a visiting professor in Spain, Tu

Tighten Your Sales Strategy, Then Refuse to Compromise

Mar 12th, 2019 1h 1m

Donna is a painter based in Beaufort, North Carolina; she’s a graduate Fellow of CHF’s Art-Business Accelerator Program, and an Emeritus Advisor for the 2019 group of Fellows. Her work is representational, and explores the nautical and coastal

Lock Down Your Rights to Your Own Art

Feb 18th, 2019 1h 6m

Emily is an Intellectual Property Attorney with over 14 years of experience handling copyright and trademark, including business and licensing agreements, infringement, prosecution, and litigation, and educating artists on the legal aspects of

Make the Gig Economy Work for You

Jan 23rd, 2019 51m 30s

Angela is a Washington DC-based speaker, trainer, consultant, and president of TKC Incorporated. With clients including Marriott, the State Department, AARP, and 40Plus of Greater Washington, she works with adults in mid-life and beyond, helpin

Get to Emerging Artist Status and Beyond

Jan 12th, 2019 47m 36s

Bonnie Clearwater is the director and chief curator at Nova Southeastern University (NSU) Art Museum in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Originally from Rockland County, New York; she has also been the Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Museu

Leverage Your Non-Art Expertise for a Career Blueprint

Dec 4th, 2018 1h 15m

Kristin Levier is a sculptor and a 2018 Executive Fellow with CHF’s Art-Business Accelerator Program. After two decades as a molecular biologist, she became a full-time studio-artist 13 years ago. As a wood sculptor, Kristin makes work at the i

Get Your Art Into Hotels and Corporate Spaces

Nov 7th, 2018 1h 1m

Rachel Berg is a New York City-based Art Advisor. She is the director of curation at Museum Editions, which specializes in placing art in hotels, restaurants, and corporate environments. She’s also president of Live Artfully, their in-house ate

Identify Pivotal Opportunities for Business Growth

Oct 2nd, 2018 47m 52s

Nadia Fairlamb is a sculptor who works with wood and mirror glass, and she also teaches art to young people through various educational programs in Hawaii, where she is based. Her work speaks to the integral link between culture and environment

Generate Powerful Publicity: A Sistine Chapel Mindset

Aug 16th, 2018 55m 48s

Todd Scalise is the founder and CEO of Higherglyphics, a creative placemaking firm that manages large-scale public art projects from start to finish: funding, art, design, construction, and merchandising. An artist himself, he knows the importa

Leverage Your Creative Skills to Improve Your Finances

Jun 25th, 2018 45m 59s

Is it realistic for artists to think "One day, I'll retire"? Christina Empedocles knows about the financial concerns of artists. A working artist represented by several San Francisco-based galleries, Christina also runs Insight Personal Finance