The Thriving Artist Podcast

How can an artist ensure that their art career is a sustainable enterprise long into the future? Carla Crawford is a figurative painter and Business Accelerator Program participant. She works in the classical tradition and focuses her latest works on displaced migrants.In this nearly hour long show, Carla addresses the importance of making your art career sustainable, how to address lags in sales, and the cross-pollination of traditional and contemporary. This is such an incredible talk that the topics are best expressed as quotations from Carla herself:Establishing a Sustainable Art Practice:“We all want to spend all our time in the studio, but how are you going to sustain that over your lifetime? It’s such an important thing to be able to master.”Mastering the business side of art is “a completely different scale from what you’re doing in the studio, but it’s essential.”On starting over after completing a solo show or big project: “I think it comes back to that idea for me of having