If you’re a working artist running your own small business, you know that promoting your work is essential if you want to draw in customers. Networking through Arts Alive programs, meetups, workshops, and field trips is a great way to meet other artists and learn from their marketing strategies. You may want to experiment with email marketing to drive more sales. Here’s how to write a compelling subject line, spruce up your newsletters with PDFs, and more.
Arts Alive is finding more regularity with our Arts Ambassador meetups and we encourage art lovers and supporters to join us, and sign up for the Arts Ambassador program!
Emily Sodders, artist and owner of Bird House Studio in Gilsum, has spent nearly her entire life creating commissioned works. Her media includes graphic design, custom portraiture and interior/exterior murals. A self-taught artist raised in Texas, she began her professional career at the tender age of 12, always working to meet the diverse needs of her clientele. These days, Sodders, wife to Vinny and mother to Evelyn, has been carving out more time for original works, a place where her love of art began. We’re proud to share Emily’s story, in her own words.
Arts Alive! announces the seven recipients of its first ever mini-grants program. Announced at the end of August, the mini-grants program was Arts Alive!’s attempt to connect with and learn more about the individual artists across the Monadnock region. The result of the application process, was almost 30 project proposals of community arts initiatives, creative independent projects, and ideas to invest in creative businesses. In November, a jury met to determine which of the almost 30 projects that applied would receive funding. The following projects were selected to receive a modest amount of funding to support projects and programs that increase access to the arts across the Monadnock region.
Becky Karush is a seasoned writer whose nearly 20 years of experience includes freelancing copywriting for several clients and magazines, and working for a weekly newspaper. For four of those years, she taught the Gateless Writing method, developed to give writers of all skill levels a community to read their work and listen to the work of others in a completely non-judgmental, open space. Over time, and boosted during the pandemic, Becky dedicated more of her time to hosting Gateless Writing drop-in salons open to everyone at Nova Arts Block in Keene (every Tuesday) and started a business, Read to Me, based on this method. She offers 20-plus salons each month (including free online salons), twice-weekly work-in-progress sessions and weekly coworking/revision one-on-one sessions, monthly online writing retreats, and a semi-weekly podcast (also called Read to Me) that includes readings and author interviews. We spoke with Becky about how she empowers people through writing and makes writing accessible to all:
