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opportunities for artists and arts organizations
The Cultural Council is committed to promoting opportunities for artists, arts professionals, and cultural organizations. In an effort to provide useful information we strive to list grants and other opportunities for professional development that are open to the art community.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRANTS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Jim Henson Foundation Invites LOIs for Creation of New Live Puppet Theater Deadline: 3/9/2020 (Letters of Intent)
Grants of up to $7,000 will be awarded for the creation and development of new, innovative works of live puppet theater....Ucross Foundation Accepting Applications for Fall 2020 Artist Residencies
Deadline: 3/1/2020
The program provides visual artists, writers, and composers in residence with uninterrupted time, workspace, and living accommodations....
College Art Association Accepting Applications for Scholarly Art Book Projects
POSTED: February 4, 2020
DEADLINE: March 15, 2020
Grants will be awarded to support the publication of book-length scholarly manuscripts in the history of art, visual studies, and related subjects....
Grants of up to $7,000 will be awarded for the creation and development of new, innovative works of live puppet theater....Ucross Foundation Accepting Applications for Fall 2020 Artist Residencies
Deadline: 3/1/2020
The program provides visual artists, writers, and composers in residence with uninterrupted time, workspace, and living accommodations....
College Art Association Accepting Applications for Scholarly Art Book Projects
POSTED: February 4, 2020
DEADLINE: March 15, 2020
Grants will be awarded to support the publication of book-length scholarly manuscripts in the history of art, visual studies, and related subjects....
J.M. Kaplan Fund Invites Applications From Nonprofit Publishers
Posted: January 24, 2020
Deadline: March 1, 2020
Grants of up to $15,000 will be awarded to support the publication of nonfiction books about the urban experience; natural and historic resources; art, architecture, and design; cultural history; and civil liberties and other public issues....
Review Opportunity HERE
National Endowment for the Arts-Grants for Arts Projects
Deadline February 13, 2020
Projects may be large or small, existing or new, and may take place in any part of the nation’s 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories.
Review Opportunity HERE
The Community Foundation of NE Florida Individual Artists Art Ventures Grants
Deadline March 12, 2020
The Individual Artist Grants are designed to help Northeast Florida artists emerge to the next level of their artistic careers.
The maximum grant request is $3,500.
Review Opportunity HERE
2020 Florida Alliance for Arts Education Summit
June 25-27
Florida's premier arts education conference
More info HERE
Creative Capital Award Application Info Session - Online
Learn how artists can apply for the Creative Capital Award valued at $100,000, including $50,000 in project funding, and an additional $50,000 in career development services—all dedicated to supporting artists complete their innovative project ideas.
The application, opening February 2020, is free and open to artists working in all disciplines across the country.
Review Opportunity HERE
Posted: January 24, 2020
Deadline: March 1, 2020
Grants of up to $15,000 will be awarded to support the publication of nonfiction books about the urban experience; natural and historic resources; art, architecture, and design; cultural history; and civil liberties and other public issues....
Review Opportunity HERE
National Endowment for the Arts-Grants for Arts Projects
Deadline February 13, 2020
Projects may be large or small, existing or new, and may take place in any part of the nation’s 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories.
Review Opportunity HERE
The Community Foundation of NE Florida Individual Artists Art Ventures Grants
Deadline March 12, 2020
The Individual Artist Grants are designed to help Northeast Florida artists emerge to the next level of their artistic careers.
The maximum grant request is $3,500.
Review Opportunity HERE
2020 Florida Alliance for Arts Education Summit
June 25-27
Florida's premier arts education conference
More info HERE
Creative Capital Award Application Info Session - Online
Learn how artists can apply for the Creative Capital Award valued at $100,000, including $50,000 in project funding, and an additional $50,000 in career development services—all dedicated to supporting artists complete their innovative project ideas.
The application, opening February 2020, is free and open to artists working in all disciplines across the country.
Review Opportunity HERE
OPPORTUNITIES WITH OPEN OR ONGOING DEADLINES
Joan Mitchell Foundation - Emergency Grants for Individual Artists
Deadline: Open
Description: The Joan Mitchell Foundation provides up to $6,000 in emergency support to US-based visual artists working in the mediums of painting, sculpture, and/or drawing, who have suffered significant losses after natural or man-made disasters that have affected a region on a broad scale. Beginning February 4, 2019, the Foundation will be accepting applications from artists affected by Hurricanes Florence, Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Michael; California wildfires; or other events of this nature or scale. Artists can apply to the Foundation for funding for up to three years after such an event.
Review Opportunity HERE
Artfully Reimagined Invites Submissions for 'Reimagine It' Grants
Deadline: Open
Description: Five percent of eco-friendly online retailer Artfully Reimagined's profits go to artists devoted to creating works from recycled objects, in the form of Reimagine It Grants. These unconditional, non-matching awards are made directly to individual artists to help launch or support careers in the inspiring world of repurposed art. Awards are based on the creative excellence of works submitted for review and are awarded to a limited number of artists of outstanding talent. Submitted pieces must be an original work; created within the past twelve months in the United States; and be made with a minimum of 70 percent of found, reclaimed, recycled, repurposed, vintage, or upcycled objects. At the time of application, the applicant must be at least 18 years old and a citizen of the United States.
Review Opportunity HERE
Craft Emergency Relief Fund Accepting Applications From Craftspeople in Need
Deadline: Open
Description: The Craft Emergency Relief Fund is a national nonprofit organization that provides small grants of up to $3,000 to professional craftspeople who have experienced a recent career-threatening emergency such as illness, accident, fire, or natural disaster. (Other services provided by the organization include referrals to craft suppliers who have agreed to offer discounts on materials and equipment to craftspeople eligible for CERF funds, and booth fee waivers in partnership with certain craft show producers.) Applicants must be a professional artist working in a craft discipline (e.g., woodworkers, fiber artists, metalsmiths, glass artists, potters, and furniture makers) who has suffered a recent career-threatening emergency and is a legal resident of the United States.
Review Opportunity HERE
The Academy Grants Program
Deadline: Ongoing
Description: The Academy Grants program directly supports the overall mission of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: to recognize and uphold excellence in the motion picture arts and sciences, inspire imagination, and connect the world through the medium of motion pictures. The program also supports the Academy’s commitment to diversity in the industry. Diversity encompasses artists as well as audiences; the cultural and geographic communities to which they belong; their age, gender, race, ethnicity, disabilities, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, and gender identity. The Academy seeks to fund proven and rising institutions that open pathways for storytellers from a wide range of backgrounds, and especially those from underserved communities.
Review Opportunity HERE
The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences
Deadline: Various
Description: The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences is a worldwide network of people devoted to forwarding the interest of "awesomeness in the universe." Established in 2009, the foundation distributes $1,000 grants on a monthly basis to projects and their creators. The money is pooled from ten or more self-organizing "micro-trustees." The chapters are autonomous and organized by the trustees around geographic areas or topics of interest. The Awesome Foundation application process is open to all people and organizations. For complete program guidelines and application instructions, as well as examples of previously funded projects, see the Awesome Foundation website.
Review Opportunity HERE
The Cultural Center at Ponte Vedra Beach
Deadline: Various
Description: The Cultural Center at Ponte Vedra Beach (CCPVB) hosts six invitational visual arts exhibitions annually in its museum quality galleries. The center’s Curatorial Committee reviews artist’s submissions on a quarterly basis and exhibitions are generally scheduled a year in advance. Shows are approximately six weeks in duration, and may consist of solo, two-person or group exhibitions of two/three-dimensional work by local, regional and national artists at the discretion of the committee. Submissions are limited to artists residing in the U.S. Submissions for artists who have been in an invitational exhibition at CCPVB within the past three years will not be considered. Submissions should consist of recent work that is typical of that anticipated to be shown. There is no submission or review fee.
Review Opportunity HERE
Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program
Deadline: Various
Description: The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University is accepting applications for its 2019-20 Fellowship Program. Through the program, stipends of up to $77,500 over twelve months (and additional funds for project expenses) will be awarded to individuals working in the creative arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and mathematics to pursue a project within their respective field. In addition, some support for relocation expenses will be provided (where relevant). In addition to the stipend, fellows receive office or studio space and access to libraries and other resources at Harvard during the fellowship year, which runs from early September 2019 through May 31, 2020. Visual, film, and video artists may apply for either one or two semesters. In the event that they come for one semester, the stipend is $38,750.
Review Opportunity HERE
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Accepting Grant Applications From Artists in Need
Deadline: Open
Description: The mission of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation is to aid, internationally, those individuals who have worked as artists over a significant period of time. The foundation's dual criteria for grants are recognizable artistic merit and financial need, whether professional, personal, or both. The foundation welcomes, throughout the year, applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors, and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. Applications are encouraged from artists who have genuine financial needs that are not necessarily catastrophic. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time and can be used by the applicant for all legitimate expenditures relating to his or her professional work and personal living (including medical) expenses. The size of the grant is determined by the individual circumstances of the artist. Professional exhibition history will be taken into consideration. Artists must be actively exhibiting their current work in a professional artistic venue such as a gallery or museum. The foundation does not accept applications from commercial artists, video artists, performance artists, filmmakers, crafts-makers, computer artists, or any artist whose work primarily falls into these categories. In addition, it does not make grants to students or for academic study or to pay for past debts, legal fees, the purchase of real estate, moves to other cities, personal travel, or to pay for the costs of installations, commissions, or projects ordered by others.
Review Opportunity HERE
The Americana Foundation Grant
Deadline: Various
Description: The Americana Foundation supports educational and advocacy programs that address the sustainable growth and development of American agriculture and community food systems, the conservation and preservation of the nation's natural resources, and the protection and presentation of expressions of America's heritage. As part of this mission, the foundation is accepting applications for its American Heritage program, which seeks to promote knowledge, preservation, and accessibility of America's heritage through educational opportunities for future conservators and curators and the preservation and presentation of unique collections. grants will be awarded for the preservation and/or acquisition of high style, classic, handcrafted furniture from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as their placement with charitable and educational institutions and/or the U.S. government; career development support for curatorial and conservation internships within major institutions and universities; and restoration projects for heritage buildings and cultural landscapes that are listed or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. Priority will be given to one-year projects that are supported by multiple sources and are sustainable over time. In the past, grant amounts have ranged between $15,000 and $50,000.
Review Opportunity HERE
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Deadline: Ongoing
Description: Established as part of Lee Krasner’s legacy, the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant was set up to support and strengthen the creative lives of artists. A competitive grant for artists with extensive exhibition records, this grant has a long list of impressive alumni. Since its start in 1985, the foundation has granted over 65 million dollars in award money to artists in over 77 countries. Artists must be actively exhibiting their current work in professional artistic venues, such as gallery and museum spaces. Awards range from $5,000 to $30,000, depending on need and circumstance.
Review Opportunity HERE
The Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant
Deadline: No Deadline
Description: This grant program is intended to provide interim financial assistance to qualified artists whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation. Each grant is given as one-time assistance for a specific emergency, examples of which are fire, flood, or emergency medical relief. The maximum amount of this grant is $15,000.
Review Opportunity HERE
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
Deadline: No Deadline
Description: Provides prompt funding for innovative visual and performing artists who have unanticipated, sudden opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding or who incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates. Grants are offered in amounts up to $2,500.
Review Opportunity HERE
Deadline: Open
Description: The Joan Mitchell Foundation provides up to $6,000 in emergency support to US-based visual artists working in the mediums of painting, sculpture, and/or drawing, who have suffered significant losses after natural or man-made disasters that have affected a region on a broad scale. Beginning February 4, 2019, the Foundation will be accepting applications from artists affected by Hurricanes Florence, Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Michael; California wildfires; or other events of this nature or scale. Artists can apply to the Foundation for funding for up to three years after such an event.
Review Opportunity HERE
Artfully Reimagined Invites Submissions for 'Reimagine It' Grants
Deadline: Open
Description: Five percent of eco-friendly online retailer Artfully Reimagined's profits go to artists devoted to creating works from recycled objects, in the form of Reimagine It Grants. These unconditional, non-matching awards are made directly to individual artists to help launch or support careers in the inspiring world of repurposed art. Awards are based on the creative excellence of works submitted for review and are awarded to a limited number of artists of outstanding talent. Submitted pieces must be an original work; created within the past twelve months in the United States; and be made with a minimum of 70 percent of found, reclaimed, recycled, repurposed, vintage, or upcycled objects. At the time of application, the applicant must be at least 18 years old and a citizen of the United States.
Review Opportunity HERE
Craft Emergency Relief Fund Accepting Applications From Craftspeople in Need
Deadline: Open
Description: The Craft Emergency Relief Fund is a national nonprofit organization that provides small grants of up to $3,000 to professional craftspeople who have experienced a recent career-threatening emergency such as illness, accident, fire, or natural disaster. (Other services provided by the organization include referrals to craft suppliers who have agreed to offer discounts on materials and equipment to craftspeople eligible for CERF funds, and booth fee waivers in partnership with certain craft show producers.) Applicants must be a professional artist working in a craft discipline (e.g., woodworkers, fiber artists, metalsmiths, glass artists, potters, and furniture makers) who has suffered a recent career-threatening emergency and is a legal resident of the United States.
Review Opportunity HERE
The Academy Grants Program
Deadline: Ongoing
Description: The Academy Grants program directly supports the overall mission of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: to recognize and uphold excellence in the motion picture arts and sciences, inspire imagination, and connect the world through the medium of motion pictures. The program also supports the Academy’s commitment to diversity in the industry. Diversity encompasses artists as well as audiences; the cultural and geographic communities to which they belong; their age, gender, race, ethnicity, disabilities, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, and gender identity. The Academy seeks to fund proven and rising institutions that open pathways for storytellers from a wide range of backgrounds, and especially those from underserved communities.
Review Opportunity HERE
The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences
Deadline: Various
Description: The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences is a worldwide network of people devoted to forwarding the interest of "awesomeness in the universe." Established in 2009, the foundation distributes $1,000 grants on a monthly basis to projects and their creators. The money is pooled from ten or more self-organizing "micro-trustees." The chapters are autonomous and organized by the trustees around geographic areas or topics of interest. The Awesome Foundation application process is open to all people and organizations. For complete program guidelines and application instructions, as well as examples of previously funded projects, see the Awesome Foundation website.
Review Opportunity HERE
The Cultural Center at Ponte Vedra Beach
Deadline: Various
Description: The Cultural Center at Ponte Vedra Beach (CCPVB) hosts six invitational visual arts exhibitions annually in its museum quality galleries. The center’s Curatorial Committee reviews artist’s submissions on a quarterly basis and exhibitions are generally scheduled a year in advance. Shows are approximately six weeks in duration, and may consist of solo, two-person or group exhibitions of two/three-dimensional work by local, regional and national artists at the discretion of the committee. Submissions are limited to artists residing in the U.S. Submissions for artists who have been in an invitational exhibition at CCPVB within the past three years will not be considered. Submissions should consist of recent work that is typical of that anticipated to be shown. There is no submission or review fee.
Review Opportunity HERE
Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program
Deadline: Various
Description: The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University is accepting applications for its 2019-20 Fellowship Program. Through the program, stipends of up to $77,500 over twelve months (and additional funds for project expenses) will be awarded to individuals working in the creative arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and mathematics to pursue a project within their respective field. In addition, some support for relocation expenses will be provided (where relevant). In addition to the stipend, fellows receive office or studio space and access to libraries and other resources at Harvard during the fellowship year, which runs from early September 2019 through May 31, 2020. Visual, film, and video artists may apply for either one or two semesters. In the event that they come for one semester, the stipend is $38,750.
Review Opportunity HERE
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Accepting Grant Applications From Artists in Need
Deadline: Open
Description: The mission of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation is to aid, internationally, those individuals who have worked as artists over a significant period of time. The foundation's dual criteria for grants are recognizable artistic merit and financial need, whether professional, personal, or both. The foundation welcomes, throughout the year, applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors, and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. Applications are encouraged from artists who have genuine financial needs that are not necessarily catastrophic. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time and can be used by the applicant for all legitimate expenditures relating to his or her professional work and personal living (including medical) expenses. The size of the grant is determined by the individual circumstances of the artist. Professional exhibition history will be taken into consideration. Artists must be actively exhibiting their current work in a professional artistic venue such as a gallery or museum. The foundation does not accept applications from commercial artists, video artists, performance artists, filmmakers, crafts-makers, computer artists, or any artist whose work primarily falls into these categories. In addition, it does not make grants to students or for academic study or to pay for past debts, legal fees, the purchase of real estate, moves to other cities, personal travel, or to pay for the costs of installations, commissions, or projects ordered by others.
Review Opportunity HERE
The Americana Foundation Grant
Deadline: Various
Description: The Americana Foundation supports educational and advocacy programs that address the sustainable growth and development of American agriculture and community food systems, the conservation and preservation of the nation's natural resources, and the protection and presentation of expressions of America's heritage. As part of this mission, the foundation is accepting applications for its American Heritage program, which seeks to promote knowledge, preservation, and accessibility of America's heritage through educational opportunities for future conservators and curators and the preservation and presentation of unique collections. grants will be awarded for the preservation and/or acquisition of high style, classic, handcrafted furniture from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as their placement with charitable and educational institutions and/or the U.S. government; career development support for curatorial and conservation internships within major institutions and universities; and restoration projects for heritage buildings and cultural landscapes that are listed or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. Priority will be given to one-year projects that are supported by multiple sources and are sustainable over time. In the past, grant amounts have ranged between $15,000 and $50,000.
Review Opportunity HERE
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Deadline: Ongoing
Description: Established as part of Lee Krasner’s legacy, the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant was set up to support and strengthen the creative lives of artists. A competitive grant for artists with extensive exhibition records, this grant has a long list of impressive alumni. Since its start in 1985, the foundation has granted over 65 million dollars in award money to artists in over 77 countries. Artists must be actively exhibiting their current work in professional artistic venues, such as gallery and museum spaces. Awards range from $5,000 to $30,000, depending on need and circumstance.
Review Opportunity HERE
The Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant
Deadline: No Deadline
Description: This grant program is intended to provide interim financial assistance to qualified artists whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation. Each grant is given as one-time assistance for a specific emergency, examples of which are fire, flood, or emergency medical relief. The maximum amount of this grant is $15,000.
Review Opportunity HERE
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
Deadline: No Deadline
Description: Provides prompt funding for innovative visual and performing artists who have unanticipated, sudden opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding or who incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates. Grants are offered in amounts up to $2,500.
Review Opportunity HERE
TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Ignite: 2020 Professional Development Series
The Nonprofit Center’s Ignite: 2020 Professional Development Series is the perfect way to ensure that 2020 is your most productive, exciting, and engaging year yet! We have a full suite of four professional development series to meet every nonprofit professional’s needs.
Review Opportunity HERE.
SFFILM Westridge Grant - film makers at the screenwriting phase
POSTED: December 19, 2019
DEADLINE: January 22, 2020
Grants of up to $25,000 will be awarded in support of documentaries, short films, or series in the screenwriting phase that explore current social issues through plot, character, theme, and/or setting...
Review Opportunity HERE.
The Nonprofit Center’s Ignite: 2020 Professional Development Series is the perfect way to ensure that 2020 is your most productive, exciting, and engaging year yet! We have a full suite of four professional development series to meet every nonprofit professional’s needs.
Review Opportunity HERE.
SFFILM Westridge Grant - film makers at the screenwriting phase
POSTED: December 19, 2019
DEADLINE: January 22, 2020
Grants of up to $25,000 will be awarded in support of documentaries, short films, or series in the screenwriting phase that explore current social issues through plot, character, theme, and/or setting...
Review Opportunity HERE.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Social Networks
DeviantART - Review the world's largest online art community HERE
Professional Development
Open Calls, Residencies, and Fellowships
Americans for the Arts - Review national public art opportunities HERE
Alliance of Artists Communities - Review national and international artist residencies HERE
CaFÉ (Call for Entry) - Register, upload your portfolio, and review open calls HERE
Art Deadline - Review opportunities ranging from competitions, grants, public art, and exhibitions HERE
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) - Review national and international open calls HERE
ResArtis - Review national and international artist residencies HERE
Burnaway - Review national and international opportunities HERE
Alliance of Artists Communities - Review national and international artist residencies HERE
CaFÉ (Call for Entry) - Register, upload your portfolio, and review open calls HERE
Art Deadline - Review opportunities ranging from competitions, grants, public art, and exhibitions HERE
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) - Review national and international open calls HERE
ResArtis - Review national and international artist residencies HERE
Burnaway - Review national and international opportunities HERE
Funding, Grants, and financial opportunities
Career Opportunities
Are you interested in a career in the non-profit sector? Please visit the Nonprofit Center's Job Bank for a complete list of job listings and instructions on how to apply.
Planning and goal setting
How To Go From Passively Talking About Something To Actively Doing Something (In 11 Simple Steps), by Patrick Fisher
This worksheet was designed to transition you from talking about your goals to taking intention-driven actions to achieve your goals.
This worksheet was designed to transition you from talking about your goals to taking intention-driven actions to achieve your goals.
Business Plan Summary, by Creative Capital
This document was designed to provide you with an understanding of what information you should include when you're writing a basic business plan.
This document was designed to provide you with an understanding of what information you should include when you're writing a basic business plan.
Stepping It Up: Goal Setting For Creatives Workbook, by Dr. Nadia Ramoutar
This workbook was deigned to assist you in better defining your goals and dismantle barriers that prevent you from achieving your goals.
This workbook was deigned to assist you in better defining your goals and dismantle barriers that prevent you from achieving your goals.
Marketing and branding
This Is A Planning Document, by Autumn Berrang of Adjective & Co.
This worksheet was designed to get you thinking more about your brand and how you communicate that brand to your audience.
This worksheet was designed to get you thinking more about your brand and how you communicate that brand to your audience.
Apps and Online Tools
Grammarly, a free grammar checker that eliminates grammatical errors and enhances your writing.
Asana, a free web interface used to manage time and tasks whether your work independently or collaborate as a group.
Evernote, a free app used to collect, develop, and share notes, images, and audio across desktop and mobile platforms
Recommended reading
ART/WORK: Everything You Need to Know (and Do) As You Pursue Your Art Career, by Heather Darcy Bhandari and Jonathan Melber
The Profitable Artist: A Handbook for All Artists in the Performing, Literary, and Visual Arts, by Artspire (New York Foundation for the Arts)
I'd Rather Be in the Studio: The Artist's No-Excuse Guide to Self-Promotion, by Alyson Stanfield
Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life, by Susan David, PhD
Art Thinking: How to Care Out Creative Space in a World of Schedules, Budgets, and Bosses, by Amy Whitaker
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction, by William Zinsser
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative, by Austin Kleon
Legal Guide for the Visual Artist, by Tad Crawford
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, by Steven Pressfield
1,000 True Fans, by Kevin Kelly
Artists' Rights: A Guide to Copyright, Moral Rights and Other Legal Issues in the Visual Art Sphere, by Molly Torsen Stech
Field Notes From Creative Exchange: Stores of Artists with Impact From Communities Across America, by Springboard for the Arts
A Beautiful Constraint, How to Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It's Everyone's Business, by Adam Morgan and Mark Barden
