Chapter 9: Mapping the Road To Success

This chapter provides specific information and advice on making a career as a literary, performing, or visual artist.

A. Launching a Successful Career in the Literary Arts

• Where to Start
• Write Something!
• Marketing your Products
• Resources
• Community Resources

• A Hard Look at Reality
• Advice on Getting Started
• Talent Agents
• Managers
• Headshots
• Resumes
• Demo Films and Audiotapes
• Postcards
• Your Appointment Book
• A Word on Bookkeeping
• Finding Work
• Tips for Successful Auditions
• Trade Papers and Talent Directories
• Unions
• Your Rights as a Performer with a Disability
• Tips for a Successful Career
• Resources Specifically for Actors with a Disability
• Books on the Business of Acting

• Introduction: Why Do People Make Art?
• Creating A Portfolio
• Elements of a Portfolio
• Cover Letter
• Resume
• Slides
• The Artist's Biography
• The Artist's Statement
• Miscellaneous Portfolio Tips
• Showing and Selling Your Work: Why? Where? To Whom?
• The Pros and Cons of Working with Galleries
• Pricing Work
• Juried Exhibitions
• Organizing your own Exhibition
• Artist's Registries
• Small Businesses
• Municipal Spaces
• Fellowships, Residencies, and Grants
• Taxes
• The Web
• Resources for Visual Artists
• Shipping Artwork
• Slide Registries
• Useful Web Sites