Your Art Will Save Your Life

By Beth Pickens

Partially a self-help book, partially a political manifesto, Beth Pickens combines practical advice for those seeking out a creative career while contextualizing it for the current time. As conversations about NEA grants, public programming, and arts funding for schools grow heated, this book is a great resource that also emphasizes the emotional/spiritual component of artmaking and draws from historical instances where art has been a tool of resistance
Beth Pickens draws from years of working in arts non-profits and artist consultation, putting a friendly face to the often-intimidating world of grants, fellowships, and promotion

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
• Release date: Apr 10, 2018
• ISBN: 9781936932306

Beth Pickens

Beth Pickens is a consultant for artists and arts organizations with a master's degree in counseling psychology and a decade of experience. She is also the author of Your Art Will Save Your Life (2018, Feminist Press). She lives in Los Angeles with her wife and pets.

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Reviews for Your Art Will Save Your Life

[hangerg_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Sent to me by a sweet friend who read a review and thought it would be right up my alley. It was to an extent, as it was a useful self-help book for artists giving good and practical advice about how to get by in the real world, to be able to make art and pay the bills too, and still have time to develop your practise and experiment etc. That bit was all good and actually quite practical and useful advice. That was about half of the book. The other half was a kind of extended wail of anguish about what a Trump governed America will be like for artists, LGBTQ people, people of colour and anyone else that somehow deviates from the norm. I get the pain, and I feel it too to some extent, but it dates the book to one very specific time and place and makes it a less useful document overall, I think. Still, it needed saying and I appreciate why this lady felt she had to say it.

[Christi Corvis · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

It feels like a bait and switch. This book talks mostly about politics.