Resources for Individual Artists
Iowa Arts Council Individual Artist Grants – Looking for funding for a project? Take a look at our grant programs - http://www.iowaartscouncil.org/funding/artist-project-grant/index.shtml.
Opportunities for Artists – Look here for arts opportunities both in and out of state -http://www.iowaartscouncil.org/publications_&_resources/in-box.shtml.
Iowa Artists Directory and Rosters - the rosters are a resource for finding artists in Iowa, get listed – http://roster.iowaartscouncil.org/.
Buyiowaart.com – a sales site operated by the Iowa Arts Council, exclusively for Iowa artists to sell their work - click here (http://www.iowaartscouncil.org/buyiowaart/index.shtml) to read more about the process.
Check these out!
- Charm the Media addresses working effectively with those who can get your work to the masses! This presentation was given by Michael Morain (the Des Moines Register's Arts Writer) at the No More Starving Artists conference in Des Moines in June of 2007.
Click here for a PDF version.
- An article titled The Business of art published in the July, 2007 edition of ArtScene magazine. The article gives some fantastic advice on making a living as an artist in Iowa.
Click here to download a PDF
Other Useful Links:
- Artists Foundation: Some of this information contained here applies to directly Massachusetts, but can also be very useful to artists all over! http://www.artistsfoundation.org/art_pages/resources/resources_arts.htm
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