Arts and Creative Enterprise : Library & Database Resources

The Art of Relevance

The Art of Relevance is your guide to mattering more to more people. You'll find inspiring examples, rags-to-relevance case studies, research-based frameworks, and practical advice on how your work can be more vital to your community. Whether you work in museums or libraries, parks or theaters, churches or afterschool programs, relevance can work for you.

Marketing on a Shoestring Budget

Here's a one-stop marketing guide just for small museums and historic sites. In an age when many local historical associations and museums take money from their marketing budget because resources are tight, which can start a vicious cycle of reduced marketing reach, lower visitation, and then even less money for marketing, this guide will help those who need it the most expand their marketing reach as inexpensively as possible.

A Short Guide to Writing about Art

Coverage of essential writing assignments includes formal analysis, comparison, research paper, review of an exhibition, and essay examination.

Creative Communities

Examines the impacts of arts and cultural consumption and production on local economies.

Value Proposition Design

Value Proposition Design helps you tackle the core challenge of every business -- creating compelling products and services customers want to buy. A sequel to Business Model Generation this book explains how to use the "Value Proposition Canvas" to design, test, create, and manage products and services customers actually want. Value Proposition Design is for anyone who has been frustrated by new product meetings based on hunches and intuitions; it's for anyone who has watched an expensive new product launch fail in the market. The book will help you understand the patterns of great value propositions, get closer to customers, and avoid wasting time with ideas that won't work. You'll learn the simple process of designing and testing value propositions, that perfectly match customers' needs and desires.

Flawless Consulting

This book tackles the challenges next-generation consultants face.

Artist's guide to grant writing : how to find funds and write foolproof proposals for the visual, literary, and performing artist / Gigi Rosenberg.

The Business of Being an Artist

Provides visual artists with an in-depth guide to developing and building a career as a professional artist.

Art/Work

The most comprehensive guide of its kind, Art/Work gives artists of every level the tools they need to make it in an art world.

Creative Enterprise

In the face of unparalleled growth and a truly global audience, the popularity of contemporary art has clearly become a double-edged affair. Today, an unprecedented number of museums, galleries, biennial-style exhibitions, and art fairs display new work in all its variety, while art schools continue to inject fresh talent onto the scene at an accelerated rate. In the process, however, contemporary art has become deeply embedded not only in an expanding art industry, but also the larger cultures of fashion and entertainment. Buskirk argues that understanding the dynamics of art itself cannot be separated from the business of presenting art to the public.