The Art Business HQ

WHAT THIS GROUP IS ABOUT: This group focuses on the business side of fine art (ie it's not about commercial art or tattoo parlours) and resource links for visual artists who want to sell their work and/or learn more about the business-side of being an artist.

To be included the majority of content in a lens should provide useful information for other artists.

This is how lenses are grouped below:
# The Art Business
# Pricing Your Art
# Selling Yourself as an Artist
# Newsletters and Advertising for Artists
# Communication Online & Blogging
# Marketing via Juried Competitions & Exhibitions
# Selling Art Online
# Shipping: Getting art to the exhibition / gallery / client
# Arts and Crafts Fairs
# Portrait Commissions
# The Art Economy
# Copyright for Artists
# Art Materials and Equipment
# The business of art holidays and art colonies

WHAT THIS GROUP IS NOT ABOUT: It's not about promoting the artwork of individual artists and it's not about "how to" make art.

If you want to join the group - please take the time to sample some of the existing lenses and read the module at the bottom of this group about what you need to know about joining this group and how you can having an application to join rejected.

You can find out more about the Group Master and many of the lenses in this Group by visiting Who is Making A Mark? and the popular art blog Making A Mark.

The focus of this group
This group is about the business side of being a fine artist. Applications to join the group are encouraged.

Why applications to join are rejected
Your request to join the group may be rejected if one of the following is applicable:
1) its scope falls outside the scope of this group (see above). The group is about the business side of fine art. It's not about illustration, commercial art, tattoo parlours or crafts per se etc. (You can always start a group for your own area of interest).
2) the lens does not emphasise the provision of good quality information about the fields of interest covered by this group - which is the business side of fine art (e.g. the majority of content in an acceptable lens are non-commercial links)
3) the lens is not yet well developed - reapply when it is. This includes lens which contain mainly commercially oriented links AND/OR the lens mainly comprises lists which are the results of google searches or RSS feeds (ie there is very little, if any. original input by the lens owner).
4) the lens focuses mainly on the work of an individual artist or artists. The lens is about the business side of fine art but it is not about promoting individual artists per se.
5) the lens contains no or few references which makes it relevant to the visual arts. A generic topic has to be tailor made to the business of visual fine art to be acceptable.
6 ) You failed to read any of this section. The only people I ever write too are those who missed 'by a bit' as opposed to 'by a mile'.

In addition, if I'm not sure about whether your lens fits with others in the group, I'm likely to look at other lenses you have produced to see what they say about your interests and expertise.