Overall Resource

• How to Support Artists' Thriving at Scale - Fractured Atlas Opportunity Scan done by Helicon Collaborative

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Artist Compensation Framework

• IFACCA | Report: Researching Artists’ Working Lives - An introduction to understanding research around paying artists

• Exhibition Payment Guide - Guidelines for paying artists for exhibitions in nonprofit arts spaces.

• How the National Endowment for the Arts Funds the Arts - A comprehensive overview of government arts funding.

• W.A.G.E. - Focused on regulating the payment of artist fees and establishing sustainable labor relationships between artists and the institutions.

  • W.A.G.E. Certification - Certification for non-profits committed to paying artists equitably.

  • W.A.G.E. Fee Calculator - Calculates equitable pay rate for artists based on nonprofit's TAOE.

• Paying the Artist – Policy by the Arts Council of Ireland to ensure the fair and equitable remuneration and contracting of artists

• Teaching Artists Guild Pay Rate Calculator – determine a living minimum wage for teaching artists in your community.

 

Transparency

• Sternberg Press | Are You Working Too Much? Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art - Collection of academic essays regarding the structures that contribute to low wages for artists.

• Why Are Artists Poor? The Exceptional Economy of the Arts - Understanding the "economy of the arts" as atypical.

• Americans for the Arts | Report: Americans Support Increases in Government Arts Funding - Facts and figures regarding public opinion of arts funding.

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Budgeting

• Exhibition Payment Guide – created by a-n (UK’s largest membership organization for professional visual artists) these guidelines help all looking to paying artists for exhibitions in nonprofit arts spaces.

• ArtUp: 10-Step Budgeting Process for Nonprofit Organizations - The success and usefulness of your nonprofit budget largely depends on the process used to create it. You will take away a proven 10-step budget process that will get everyone involved and ensure that your budget reflects your organization’s mission, strategic plan, and programmatic priorities

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Responding to Individual Differences

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