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Book Recommendations
Below are books recommended by the Artists Thrive Community. If there are others you recommend, please let us know.
The Social Profit Handbook
The Essential Guide to Setting Goals, Assessing Outcomes, and Achieving Success for Mission-Driven Organizations
By David Grant
The Essential Guide to Setting Goals, Assessing Outcomes, and Achieving Success for Mission-Driven Organizations
By David Grant
Arts & Numbers
A Financial Guide for Artists, Writers, Performers, and Other Members of the Creative Class
By Elaine Grogan Luttrull
A Financial Guide for Artists, Writers, Performers, and Other Members of the Creative Class
By Elaine Grogan Luttrull
Create Your Art Career
Practical Tools, Visualizations, and Self-Assessment Exercises for Empowerment and Success
Rhonda Schaller
Practical Tools, Visualizations, and Self-Assessment Exercises for Empowerment and Success
Rhonda Schaller
Making Your Life As An Artist:
A guide to building a balanced, sustainable artistic life.
by Andrew Simonet
A guide to building a balanced, sustainable artistic life.
by Andrew Simonet
The Profitable Artist, 2nd Edition
A Handbook for all artists in the Performing, Literary, and Visual Arts
By New York Foundation for the Arts
A Handbook for all artists in the Performing, Literary, and Visual Arts
By New York Foundation for the Arts
Art/Work
By Heather Darcy Bhandari & Jonathan Melber
By Heather Darcy Bhandari & Jonathan Melber
The Art of Activism: Your All-Purpose Guide to Making the Impossible Possible (book & workbook)
By Steve Dubcombe & Steve Lambert
By Steve Dubcombe & Steve Lambert
Artivism of Returning Citizens: Artist Activists of the Nation’s Capital Impacting the Prison Abolition Movement
Your Brain on Art
by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross
by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
by Tricia Hersey
by Tricia Hersey
Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
by David Bayles and Ted Orland
by David Bayles and Ted Orland
Walking in This World: The Practical Art of Creativity
by Julia Cameron
by Julia Cameron
Letters to a Young Artist
by Anna Deavere Smith
by Anna Deavere Smith
Company Of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
by Paul Jarvis
by Paul Jarvis
The Story of NFTs
Artists, Technology, and Democracy
By Amy Whitaker & Nora Burnett Abrams
Artists, Technology, and Democracy
By Amy Whitaker & Nora Burnett Abrams
Creative Trespassing
How to Put the Spark and Joy Back Into Your Work and Life
By Tania Katan
How to Put the Spark and Joy Back Into Your Work and Life
By Tania Katan
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