In this column, NYFA Program Officer Edith Meeks interviews performing artists about issues relating to their working careers. Here, she speaks with David Sharp about artists and finance.

Edith Meeks: You’ve made a pretty unusual career combination of dancing and corporate financial consulting. Do you make any connection between the two?
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A budget is simply a plan for how you earn, spend, save and invest your money. Creating your budget is one of the first things you should do as you begin to organize your personal finances.

Why? Because having a budget is the key to making your money work for you. Until you actually calculate how much money you earn after taxes - and until you figure out how much money you spend every month - it's impossible to establish a savings or investment plan that will work.
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In Money Basics, we asked you to figure out a very basic math question. Namely, how much do you spend?

Now, in Spending Basics, you'll get to analyze some of your spending routines. Specifically, you'll be looking at the basics of buying a home, purchasing a car, and the way you use a piece of plastic called a credit card to buy nearly everything else.
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In order to succeed in your career some financial investment is usually necessary, and the career of the fine artist is no exception: art supplies are expensive, art schools can be astronomical, and finished works may have to be framed, crated, shipped, and insured. There are outlays for postcards, postage, portfolios, brochures, slides, and even perhaps a website. And then there's the question of vanity galleries.
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Script for "Marketplace" commentary

Poetry Magazine, the long-struggling publication, received a 100 million dollar bequest recently from pharmaceutical fortune heir Ruth Lilly. It’s stirred up a hornets nest in circles that frown on mixing art and money. But commentator and arts critic Ann Daly says it’s about time. more...

CAR collaborative partner GYST (Getting Your Sh*t Together) is an LA-based artist-run company that has developed an excellent software to help artists to stay on top of their careers. In December and January they are offering a discount on the new version of the software to CAR users.

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