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After Someone Makes a Purchase
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If Galleries Vanish
If Galleries Vanish [Subscribe to the International Association of Creative and Performing Artists free newsletter NOW and get your free gifts!] Art galleries—as we’ve known them since the rise of the modern art market in places like Paris and New York City—have long...
The Hidden Loneliness of the Creative Life
The Hidden Loneliness of the Creative Life The Many Roads That Lead to Isolation and Sadness Loneliness is one of the least acknowledged realities of the creative life—and one of the most damaging. From the outside, artists often appear surrounded: by audiences,...
What Artists Actually Need Right Now
What Artists Actually Need Right Now And How the IACPA Will Help When people talk about “supporting the arts,” the conversation almost always collapses into a single word: funding. Funding matters, of course. But to imagine that money alone addresses the lived...
A Worldwide Home for the Creative Spirit
A Worldwide Home for the Creative Spirit Why the International Association of Creative and Performing Artists Matters Now The International Association of Creative and Performing Artists (IACPA) was founded on a simple but increasingly radical premise: that creative...
Where Artists are Gathering
This is where artists are gathering. The International Association of Creative and Performing Artists. Come join them. The first home for artists worldwide. Take a quick peek – I know you’ll love it!
A New Home for Artists–Come Be a Part!
My new initiative, the International Association of Creative and Performing Artists, has just opened its doors. This is the first global home for artists and you will want to be part of it! Visit here, learn more, and subscribe to our free newsletter. You’ll get...
10 Tips for Using Blue to Maximum Effect
10 Tips for Using Blue to Maximum Effect Exploit Blue’s Emotional Baseline Blue is widely experienced as calming, trustworthy, and spacious. Use it as an emotional ground from which other feelings can emerge—rather than as the emotional climax itself. Vary Temperature...
Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions for Visual Artists
[Please take a look at my latest book, Brave New Mind, which teaches the invaluable skill of serene readiness. Perfect for artists!] Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions for Visual Artists Resolve to Separate Making Art from Monetizing Art Do not let market logic colonize...
10 Ways that AI can help visual artists
[Please subscribe to Eric Maisel: Thinking Aloud, which brings you a new “Tales of the Creative Life” every Tuesday and a new “The Craft of Coaching with Eric Maisel” every Thursday. You can subscribe for free here.] TEN WAYS THAT AI CAN HELP VISUAL ARTISTS Here are...
