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Creative Well-Being & financial instability

Below are the best resources we could find on Creative Well-Being and financial instability.

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Choose Yourself!

The world is changing. Markets have crashed. Jobs have disappeared. Industries have been disrupted and are being remade before our eyes. Everything we aspired to for “security,” everything we thought was “safe,” no longer is: College. Employment. Retirement. Government.

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Arts & Numbers: A Financial Guide for Artists, Writers, Performers, and Other Members of the Creative Class

The creative class—artists, actors, writers, musicians, freelancers, dancers, performers, and the like—are known for applying their passion for creative expression to everything they do. Perhaps the one thing that most fills this group with apprehension is the rigid world of numbers.

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The Freelancer’s Bible: Everything You Need to Know to Have the Career of Your Dreams―On Your Terms

Amazingly, one-third of the American workforce is freelance―that’s 42 million people who have to wrestle with not just doing the work, but finding the work, then getting paid for the work, plus health care, taxes, setting up an office, marketing, and so on.

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Real Artists Don’t Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

Bestselling author and creativity expert Jeff Goins dismantles the myth that being creative is a hindrance to success by revealing how an artistic temperament is in fact a competitive advantage in the marketplace. The Starving Artist Is a Myth.

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Creative, Inc.: The Ultimate Guide to Running a Successful Freelance Business

As the hipster classic Craft, Inc. did for crafters, this book will teach all types of creatives illustrators, photographers, graphic designers, animators, and more how to build a successful business doing what they love.

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Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays by 40 Working Artists

In this day and age, when art has become more of a commodity and art school graduates are convinced that they can only make a living from their work by attaining gallery representation, it is more important than ever to show the reality of how a professional, contemporary artist sustains a creative...

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Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles

If you are an artist, you need to make your art. That's not an overstatement—it's a fact; if you stop doing your creative work, your quality of life is diminished.

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NFTs Are Fueling a Boom in Digital Art. Here’s How They Work | WSJ

Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, have exploded onto the digital art scene this past year. Proponents say they are a way to make digital assets scarce, and therefore more valuable. WSJ explains how they work, and why skeptics question whether they’re built to last.

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How Can We Pay for Creativity in the Digital Age?

There’s still money to be made, but it’s mostly not the creators who are getting rich.

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Why Must Artists Be Poor? | Hadi Eldebek

The arts bring meaning to our lives and spirit to our culture—so why do we expect artists to struggle to make a living? Hadi Eldebek is working to create a society where artists are valued through an online platform that matches artists with grants and funding opportunities—so they can focus on their...

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