Making money as an INSTALLATION artist HOW-TO guide! | Art Discourse Ep 15

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It may seem impossible to make a living as an installation artist because … what exactly are you “selling”? An experience. An environment. A transformative space. A community building opportunity.

In this episode of Art Discourse we answer the question: “How do installation artists make money from their art?” We discuss NINE different ways you can get paid for your installation art. From granting to arts festivals there are so many different ways installation artists can get paid for their immersive work!

We’ll be honest, when we first started making installation artwork we didn’t have a clue what the possibilities were. We still don’t know all of them.
But after creating installations almost 5 years now we’ve found that they are a blast to create and often well funded.

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✨ HELPFUL LINKS:
Modern Fuel: https://www.modernfuel.org/
Agnes Etherington Art Centre: https://agnes.queensu.ca/
Artspace: https://artspaceptbo.ca/
ARCCO: https://directory.arca.art/associatio...
CARFAC Fee Schedule: https://carfac-raav.ca/2022-en/
Akimbo: https://akimbo.ca/
Kick Start Arts: https://kickstartarts.com/
Department of Illumination: https://www.deptofillumination.org/
Critical Mass: https://criticalmassart.com/
Artscape: https://www.artscape.ca/
STEPS Public Art: https://stepspublicart.org/
ArtworxsTO: https://www.artworxto.ca/
OAC Open Data Tables: https://www.arts.on.ca/research-impac....
Robert McLaughlin Gallery: http://rmg.on.ca/art-labgallery-a/
Andy Goldsworthy art prints: http://www.artnet.com/artists/andy-go...
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: https://christojeanneclaude.net/
Gladstone House: https://www.gladstonehouse.ca/
Nuit Blanche: https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/...
Luminato Festival: https://luminatofestival.com/
Festival of Cool: https://harbourfrontcentre.com/series...
Ontario Place: https://ontarioplace.com/en/
Lights on Stratford: https://lightsonstratford.ca/

⏰ TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Welcome banter & question selection
0:14 Episode question: How do installation artists make money from their art?
0:22 Intro with music by Amery Sandford
0:54 Funding installation projects through grants or through institutions that have funding
1:29 Corporate/commercial clients
1:53 Seize opportunities to exhibit and document
2:34 Artist fees
3:46 WTF is CARFAC
4:20 How to search for public art open calls
5:30 Community arts organizations
6:22 Project creation grants and residency programs
7:12 Making the most of it
8:02 Send the installation on tour
8:55 Art festivals
9:34 Let us know about your installation experiences

👍 ABOUT ART DISCOURSE:
Over the past 12 years Kyle and I have amassed a large number of questions from artists. Literally we’re sitting on a 70+ page Google document full of them. We often used them when planning our guest lectures for universities and colleges, but as you all know we haven’t really been doing as many of those talks recently. Which is a bummer because it’s a part of our job we really love. Sharing information is a valuable part of what Spark Box is to us, so, with that in mind, we decided to create another series for YouTube - The Art Discourse! We’ve broken the questions down into six categories and each month we’ll roll a dice to find out what the focus of the month will be. Our first dice roll was “funding/pricing/applications”

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