Business/Legal Information: Visual Art

Training is an important component of both our marketing services and our product design and development services. Every project involves some type of formal or informal training. In-country, much training occurs as design and production consultants work with individual businesses. The intense one-on-one exchanges between fellow craftsmen, or between merchandising experts and producers are powerful. Lessons learned here last a lifetime. We also offer broader workshops about business issues such as planning, costing and pricing, and customer service. Where the need arises, we also conduct technical workshops to address specialized needs.

Monthly newsletter that summarizes key developments at art councils around New York State.

This classic guide is the ultimate source on key business practices and industry standards from the foremost authority in professional photography. From standard practices in stock and assignment photography to special one-time decisions such as acquiring a digital workstation, this "business bible" provides the latest answers to any legal or business question an aspiring or professional photographer can ask. In eleven in-depth chapters, over two dozen industry experts offer practical guidance on such topics as estimating prices, formalizing agreements, using electronic technology, and much more. This completely updated Sixth Edition also features dozens of ready-to-copy legal and business forms, helpful checklists, and an extensive cross-media bibliography.

30 handy, ready-to-use forms for a craftsperson's every need fill this practical guide, with detailed instructions for completing each one, along with negotiation checklists and advice on standard contractual provisions. This indispensable book includes forms for sales; resales with royalty rights; commissions; limited editions; exhibition loans; gallery agreements; consignments; licensing contracts; lecture agreements; copyright applications; permission forms, agreements with independent contractors; and others. In addition, a CD-ROM with electronic versions of each form is provided, making this package the cutting-edge business guide for craftspeople.

This practical guide contains 26 ready-to-use forms on a CD with detailed instructions. Forms include: artist-gallery and licensing agreements; contracts for sales, commissions, limited editions.

This volume serves to help photographers organize and promote their businesses as well as minimize legal vulnerability. It contains thirty-one business and legal forms, step-by-step instructions, advice on standard contractual provisions, thorough discussion of contractual issues relevant to the industry, and unique negotiation checklists to help photographers operate with the highest standards of professionalism.

Thoroughly updated and expanded, this classic handbook teaches emerging artists all the strategies they need to know for selling artwork on their own or through dealers. The book's new sections target today's vital issues: creating a web site; obtaining copyright/trademark protection on the Internet; coping with censorship of controversial art; and dealing with the new realities of funding sources. Additional chapters tell how to find galleries, arrange exhibitions, apply for grants, land survival jobs doing custom decorative art or teaching, and other relevant topics. Out of print.

This is the definitive guide to starting and running a successful photography studio. It offers strategies and practical advice on every aspect of the business, including location, financing, and pricing; equipping the studio; selling to wedding, portrait, commercial, and art photography markets; creating a sound business plan; handling paperwork; and much more. Lists of important organizations and sources are provided as well.

Filled with successful strategies for serving clients in today's flourishing art market, this definitive guide provides techniques for increasing sales opportunities and revenues in an ever-expanding field. Details are provided on how to generate leads, navigate new markets and reach top decision-makers, establish a profitable fee/commission structure, and write and present winning proposals. How to handle and install art, art program management, professional ethics, marketing, publicity and advertising are addressed.

Everything artisans need to know for turning their crafts into a lucrative income is spelled out in this guide to tapping into today¹s booming craft show industry. Based on his extensive experience and success both as an exhibiting crafter and as a teacher/promoter of craft shows, the author tells readers exactly how to market and price crafts, select shows, work with promoters, create effective booth displays, and deal with customers to build skyrocketing sales. Straightforward language and easy-to-follow instructions make this the essential business companion for anyone who wants to flourish in the world of craft shows.

Written by a leader in the world of stock photography, this completely revised and updated third edition of How to Shoot Stock Photos That Sell provides practical, detailed advice on every area of producing, marketing, and selling stock photography—from the basics of planning and producing a shoot to running a successful stock business. New to this edition is updated information on digital photography, including techniques for shooting with digital cameras and using digital imaging, as well as surefire ways to market stock photography on the Web.

Guide helps craftspeople to understand the law and successfully tackle the business and legal issues they face every day.

This highly acclaimed reference book presents a comprehensive overview of the legal issues faced by anyone working in the visual arts. The narrative text is arranged into twenty-four chapters covering: copyright, contracts, censorship, moral rights, sales (by artist, gallery, or agent), taxation, estate planning, museums, collecting, and grants. The book suggests basic strategies, gives information to help with further action, and contains many sample legal forms and contracts. This edition is a complete revision, providing not only updated legal information, but also covering the ever-increasing importance of new media and electronic rights.

Whether you are a designer, illustrator, photographer, or fine artist, you can increase your income by licensing your creative images. This book will show you how by providing expert coverage of the following areas: how to protect your ideas with copyrights, patents, and trademarks; model licensing agreement; a negotiation checklist to evaluate deals; how to maximize royalties; how to find manufacturers and distributors; and licensing in Cyberspace. The revised edition now covers the licensing of multimedia and electronic rights.

Rich with seasoned advice and practical tools for conquering fears behind the camera, this book is a motivational guide for anyone wanting to advance in the world of photography as a career or hobby. Following a review of basic equipment, training, and the digital revolution, the author outlines career avenues and options; ways to trigger inspiration; current photography trends and markets; grant information, creative business strategies, contests, clubs, and professional associations; and business, legal, and ethical issues.

This classic trade reference tool provides photographers with a wealth of time-tested information on everything from estimating prices, identifying pricing factors, negotiating fair deals, and much more. Chapters include practical information on the economics of photography, cutting-edge negotiation techniques, and the specifics of pricing electronic media. Over fifty pages of at-a-glance pricing charts help photographers tailor their pricing to suit any sales situation. Plus, readers will also find a complete “buyer’s guide” for art directors and editors, a comprehensive glossary, and dozens of ready-to-use worksheets and forms for even more instant help. A must-have addition to every photographer’s bookshelf.

Craftspeople, hobbyists, students, teachers, and crafts dealers will find this an authoritative and thorough source of information on selling in today's marketplace. Drawing upon profiles of established artisans and the helpful insights of small-business entrepreneurs, this unique guide not only gives tactics for promoting and marketing crafts, but also provides the necessary forms for getting a business up and running. The book details how to network effectively and build a customer base, listing organizations, business associations, and crafts publications that offer further sources of information. Filled with easy-to-understand examples and sample forms and contracts, this book provides the essential tools for prospering in the crafts business, as well as the resources needed to keep savvy as business grows.

This complete set of forms has everything a photographer needs to run and organize a stock photography business. Step-by-step instructions and helpful advice accompany forms to organize shoots, travel, resources, clients, markets, and to manage every detail of day-to-day operation. You'll find: insurance and tax forms; estimate, delivery memo, and invoice; pre-shoot checklist; model and property releases; film test form; and much more.

The second edition of this definitive guide is for gallery owners, dealers, and artists' reps who want to understand the law and successfully tackle the business and legal issues they face every day in their field. Written by an esteemed arts lawyer and lecturer, the book covers all legal aspects of a gallery business­ from trademarks and copyright to contracts, consignments, taxes, product liability, advertising, catalog sales, and customer relations­saving the reader thousands of dollars in attorney's fees. The author also advises how to find a good lawyer if one is needed.

A thorough discussion of the legal and business issues of everyday concern in professional photography. Topics covered include: copyright, defamation and libel, censorship and obscenity, business organization and taxes, working and living space, contracts and remedies, agents, estate planning, digitization, and more. Drawing numerous examples from legal cases involving photography to illustrate the law, the book will enable photographers to conduct business confidently and know when to seek legal assistance.

Strategies and tactics for to negotiate effectively with clients, vendors and other photographers.

A bimonthly newsletter that summarizes federal legislation pertaining to the arts.

The ACLU provides information on censorship issues facing artists.

Benefits include: below wholesale craft supplies, professional business consulting, endless craft ideas and concepts, training and awards, and a directory of craft shows fairs and festivals that members rate.

Membership benefits include access to business, legal, and commercial sources. Membership brochure can be downloaded online.

Tackles the business end of things, compiling details on tax deductions, and allowable business expenses, financial statements and management, local art laws, and bookkeeping methods. A fine approach for artists and curators alike. Available at Amazon.

A&U is an unusual hybrid publication whose readership reflects a cross section of society: leading intellectuals, business and civic leaders, artists, AIDS educators, AIDS activists, doctors, pharmacists, and others who are well-informed about the disease.

(11 issues) Every month, this publication brings you more than 25 categories of listings, including: Grants and fellowships, awards, national, regional and international juried competitions, arranged state-by-state, residencies and artist colonies, fairs, festivals and expos where you can sell your artwork without the middle-man, museums, university galleries, and nonprofit spaces reviewing proposals for solo and group shows, percent-for-art and other open competitions, publishing opportunities, positions open, conferences and trade shows, networking opportunities. Also includes articles on self-promotion and exhibition strategies, doing business on the Internet, maximizing your web site, using e-mail,the ins-and-outs of licensing, publishing, printing, and marketing reproductions of your work, financial management, art law, etc.