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All or nothing thinking is costing you your career (opens the original)
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I catch myself doing it all the time.The gallery didn’t respond so the art world is closed to me. The grant application was rejected so my work doesn’t matter. One bad critique and suddenly everything I’ve been making for three years feels worthless.None of those conclusions follow from what actually happened. But I’m not operating on logic in those moments. I’m operating on fear.All-or-nothing thinking compresses a complicated reality into two mutually exclusive categories. Success or failure.
Monday Masterclass: Pricing your work - Week 3 (opens the original)
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WEEK 3: SAYING THE PRICE OUT LOUDThis is the week everyone has been waiting for and also the week everyone has been dreading.Because knowing your price is one thing. Saying it out loud to another human being who is standing in front of your work and asking how much — that is another thing entirely. Read more
Social media for artists in 2026. or not. (opens the original)
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A couple of days ago I had the honor of hosting Rotem Rozental’s USC Roski curator class in my studio. It was such a great conversation and one of the questions they asked was about the importance of social media for artists and in the art world. I wanted to expand on that here because it’s a bigger conversation than we had time for.Let me be direct about something first.You do not have to be on social media to be a working artist.I know that runs counter to almost everything you’ve been told fo
The Art World(s) Podcast with Mary Anna Pomonis (opens the original)
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Welcome to The Art World(s) Podcast with Kristine Schomaker.These conversations started before the pandemic as the Shoebox Speaker Series, when we all gathered in person at the studio at the Brewery. It moved to Zoom and kept going. Over the years we’ve talked to gallerists, curators, collectors, writers, lawyers, artists, and more, people who know things that working artists need to know.About this episodeMary Anna Pomonis came to Shoebox with a lot to share. This conversation covers her practi
How much do you want it? (opens the original)
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I ask myself this question more than almost any other.Not as a motivational thing. Not as a push to work harder or hustle more. As an honest audit. Because the answer tells me something true about where my energy should go and where I’ve been spending it on things I don’t actually want as much as I think I do.How much do you want the gallery show?Enough to research the gallery and understand their program? Enough to go to their openings and actually look at the work? Enough to write the email, s
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