Workshop: Becoming a Full-Time Artist: Managing a Career Transition to the Arts

This workshop focuses on the unique challenges that face artists who have built careers in other industries, and who are now ready for full-time careers as artists.  We will present strategies for artists to build a new (or expand an existing) network in the arts and re-brand themselves as professional artists.  We will tackle issues such as finding opportunities to be featured in the press, expanding contacts with curators and art dealers and building on a lexicon of current art industry standard "language" and knowledge to be taken seriously as an artist ready for the international stage.

The format for this workshop will consist of an interactive presentation, followed by small group breakouts focused on problem-solving and a final Q&A.

This workshop is great for artists who have reached a milestone in their life (e.g., retirement, return from maternity leave, vocational change) and are ready to devote themselves fully to building a career as a renowned artist.

• Date: Thursday, March 19

• Time: 7-9pm

• Location: 195 Broadway, Brooklyn

• Cost: $50, includes drinks and light bites

• Purchase tickets: LINK

About the facilitator: Audra Lambert is an independent curator and art critic based in New York City and Founder/Editor-in-Chief of ANTE.mag, focused on under-the-radar contemporary art. Audra is Founder/Chief Curator of Antecedent Projects (2014), a New York City-based curatorial consultancy focused on site-specific projects. Her current curatorial project, Hey, Wow: Works by Oded Halahmy, remains on view at the Yeshiva University Museum through March 2020, with recent curatorial projects at La Esquina NYC and Fountain House gallery. She has curated exhibitions with the New York City Parks Department's Arsenal Gallery (2017), FLUX Art Fair (2016), White Roof Project (2015) and more. Audra served as Curatorial Manager for Art in Odd Places 2018: BODY, and contributes to HuffPost Arts & Culture, A/D/O Blog, Americans for the Arts, Artefuse and Quiet Lunch, among others.