Published in 2018
136 pages
Beth Pickens is a Los Angeles-based consultant for artists and arts organizations. She is the author of the book Your Art Will Save Your Life (Feminist Press, 2018) and the pamphlets Making Art During Fascism and On Artists and Hopelessness. She provides career consultation, grant writing, fundraising, and financial, project, and strategic planning services for clients throughout the US. Before relocating to Los Angeles in 2014, she was based in San Francisco where she served as Senior Program Manager at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Managing Director of both RADAR Productions and the Queer Cultural Center. She specializes in supporting queer and trans artists, women, and artists of color.
What is this book about?
Writing in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, Beth Pickens reminds burgeoning artists that their work is more important now than ever, and advises on fostering creativity, sustaining an innovative practice, and navigating institutional funding as an individual. Partially a self-help book, partially a political manifesto, Pickens combines practical advice for those seeking out a creative career while contextualising it for the current time.
