Over the last few years, as I've engaged with my local art community and built my art business, I've had dozens of engaging conversations with people in my area about marketing, production, and art. We've shared tons of ideas and built each other up as a small business owners and as artists.
And I always left these conversations feeling energized and a sense of being full of potential for growth. It was during a recent meeting that I realized I should be recording these for others who might want to make money with their art but don't know where to begin.
The name, Art for Profit's Sake, is inspired by a conversation I had with another artist two years ago. She asked me "Why do you make art?" My cynical self responded with "To Make money." She proceeded to point out that if that was really the case, I'd be doing something else, like Crypto mining or accounting.
She made a good point- it's the desire to create something that drives me, and the renumeration for it is a tangible reward for my hard work. That's what I hope to explore in the conversations that this podcast will provide.
My first episode is a conversation with Elizabeth Eleanor Davis, Black Abbey Studios, who has found success with her art in a more traditional manner via selling original paintings and prints of her originals.
I follow that up with a jump in the opposite direction with Madame Berry, GlitchBerry, who's business more closely resembles my own. We discussion finding products and building communities of fans through different social media avenues.
In an effort to prevent Gatekeeping, I am recording these episodes via Riverside.fm and editing the RAW audio files via Adobe Audition. Finally, the episodes are uploaded and distributed through Spotify for Podcasters. I plan on this being a weekly episode.
At this point, I'm completely new to each step of the process and hope to improve as I record more episodes. I've tried using my laptop's (Surface Pro Studio) and my Headphone's (Sony WH-100XM5) microphones and neither have sounded as good as I'd like, so I'll be shopping for a new mic soon.
I hope you enjoy learning about podcasting with me and I hope you enjoy these engaging conversation with how different artists have found success and avoided failure in their businesses.
