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About Us

Professional Artist Magazine is the industry’s foremost business magazine for visual artists. Founded in 1986, Art Calendar acts as a beacon to guide artists on their journey toward making a living with their art.

Written by knowledgeable industry pros and successful working artists, Professional Artist Magazine offers artists practical business advice on subjects such as art marketing, art law, portfolio development, exhibition presentation, communication skills and sales techniques, as well as advanced technical applications of photography, computer and Web tools. It also offers the most extensive and recent listings of Calls to Artists, including galleries reviewing portfolios, juried competitions, grants, fellowships, festivals, publishing opportunities and residencies.

Best described as “The Artist’s Guide to Making It,” Professional Artist Magazine is the only subscription-driven, business-oriented magazine published specifically for visual artists. There are no “how-to-paint” articles — Professional Artist Magazine readers have already found their voice and established their own unique style. Professional Artist Magazine enables professional artists to make a living doing what they love, providing them with fresh and innovative ideas, along with the all of the necessary tools to sell their work and further their careers. Offering professional artists more than any other art publication, Professional Artist Magazine has established itself as the ultimate resource for visual artists.

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Meet the Professional Artist Magazine Team:
Diana Moses Botkin is a wife, mother of five, and award-winning artist who enjoys painting a variety of subjects, from figurative to landscapes. An Oklahoma native, she now lives and works in north Idaho, where she stays busy with family chores, painting commissions, marketing her work, writing for Art Calendar magazine, and the Painting-a-Day movement. She says this about her Painting-a-Day blog, “Maybe I should call it ‘A Painting Every Other Day’. It’s often a challenge to keep up with all I do!”

Find out more about Diana and her work at www.DianaMosesBotkin.com,
http://DianaMosesBotkin.blogspot.com/,
www.DailyPainters.com and www.DianaMosesBotkin.imagekind.com/lifeimages
Molly Crabapple draws for The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Marvel Comics and Playgirl, and has work hanging in galleries across the country. Her work is a hyper-detailed, Victorian-inspired take on love, malice, and artifice — in other words, the stuff that makes New York tick. She also runs Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School, a burlesque life drawing session with nearly 50 branches around the world. In her free time, she likes coffee.

See more at www.mollycrabapple.com and www.drsketchy.com
Paul Dorrell founded Leopold Gallery in 1991, in Kansas City. Prior to that, he worked as Director's Assistant at the Hill-Stead Museum of French Impressionism in Farmington, Connecticut. As an art consultant, Dorrell's clients include Warner Brothers, H&R Block, the National D-Day Memorial, the Mayo Clinic, and scores of private, civic and corporate collectors. He consults with clients on a daily basis, both those seeking paintings and sculpture, and artists seeking successful careers. He has also consulted on dozens of monumental installations, from Washington to Los Angeles. Dorrell is the author of the acclaimed guidebook for artists, Living the Artist's Life. This straightforward and often amusing work instructs on how to assemble a viable career in the visual arts.

Visit his blog at www.PaulDorrell.com
Contributing writer and communications consultant Ligaya Figueras has been an independent publishing professional since 2000. Ligaya specializes in business writing, marketing, and media relations for visual and performance artists, writers, nonprofit organizations and specialty service providers. Her business management and lifestyle articles have been featured in numerous magazines and newspapers including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Writer, Missouri Life, St. Louis Magazine, Silent Sports, and publications by the American Society of Cinematographers, the U.S. Soccer Foundation and Rails-to-Trails Conservancy. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the St. Louis Publishers Association. When she’s not writing or scouring the art world in search of talented professional artists, Ligaya indulges her passion for food as a vegetable gardener, berry forager and food columnist for Sauce magazine. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with her husband and two sons.
Eric Maisel, Ph.D., is the author of more than 30 books, among them Creativity for Life, Fearless Creating, and The Van Gogh Blues (a Books for a Better Life finalist). Maisel holds Bachelor’s degrees in Philosophy and Psychology, Master's degrees in Creative Writing and Counseling, and a Doctorate in Counseling Psychology. He is a California-licensed marriage and family therapist, and a creativity coach and trainer of creativity coaches, provides regular segments for Art of the Song Creativity Radio, and hosts two shows on the Personal Life Media Network: The Joy of Living Creatively and Your Purpose-Centered Life. Dr. Maisel is widely regarded as America's foremost creativity coach and has taught thousands of creative and performing artists how to meet the challenges of the creative life.

Find out more at
www.ericmaisel.com,
or listen to the show The Joy of Living Creatively at http://blogs.personallifemedia.com/creative/
and the show Your Purpose-Centered Life at http://blogs.personallifemedia.com/purpose/.

Contact him at ericmaisel@hotmail.com.
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Steve Meltzer is an award-winning photojournalist living and working in the Pacific Northwest. He studied photography with photographers Cornell Capa, Roman Vishniac, Duane Michaels and Oliver Gagliani. His work has appeared in publications around the world, and he has had gallery exhibitions of his work in the U.S. and in France, and in 1977, Steve created West Stock, the first photography agency to sell photos online and on CD-ROMs. For more than 30 years, Steve has photographed art for artists and craftspeople around the nation. In June of 2007, Steve’s book, Photographing Arts, Crafts & Collectibles (Lark Books 2007), was released. His new book, Capture The Light, is available at Amazon.com.

Contact him at stevefotos@cs.com or visit www.stevefotos.com
Renée Phillips is the Director of Manhattan Arts International. She recently co-curated “Celebrate The Healing Power of Art,” an online exhibition at www.ManhattanArts.com through March 2009. Known as “The Artrepreneur Coach,” she counsels artists worldwide in private consultations and group workshops. She is the author of Presentation Power Tools For Fine Artists, Success Now! For Artists: A Motivational Guide For The Artrepreneur, and The Artists Complete Guide to New York Art Galleries. She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA).

Articles with advice for artists can be found at www.manhattanarts.com and www.renee-phillips.com.

You may e-mail questions to her at renee@renee-phillips.com
Alyson B. Stanfield is an artist advocate and art-marketing consultant. She is the author of I’d Rather Be in the Studio! The Artist’s No-Excuse Guide to Self-Promotion. The book and her free weekly newsletter are available at ArtBizCoach.com
Residing most of her life in coastal communities, Annie Strack developed a passion for painting seascapes and earned a reputation as a leading figure in the field of contemporary maritime art. She’s an Official Authorized Artist for the U.S. Coast Guard, and earned Signature Membership in five artist societies. Her artwork has received hundreds of awards and hangs in more than 1,000 public, corporate, and private collections worldwide. She is a popular juror for art competitions, and is a much sought after lecturer and art demonstrator for numerous art organizations, civic groups and schools. She teaches workshops on painting, photography and art marketing. Annie draws experience from her former career in corporate management to build a successful art career, and she shares her knowledge of business and marketing in her articles.

Visit her at www.AnnieStrackArt.blogspot.com
Milon Townsend is the author of seven books, including Advanced Flameworking, Volume I, Making & Marketing Better Work, The Marketing Companion Workbook, Focus on Flamework, and Patriot Dreams, a contemplative volume in response to 9/11. He has also produced a series of videos, demonstrating the techniques that he has developed, making them available to other artists in his field. He is a regular contributor to five magazines, on the topics of art business, art technique and creativity. He is a board member of The Arts Business Institute, a nonprofit organization that assists artists in acquiring the skills to succeed in their careers. He has created works for Pres. George Bush (the elder), Arnold Palmer, and Cyrus Vance. Corporate clients include Bristol-Myers-Squibb, AT&T, Ford, & BusinessWeek magazine. His work has been featured on the covers of Omni and Aviation Week & Space Technology magazines. Milon has taught at RIT’s School of American Crafts, at Urban Glass in NYC, been a visiting artist at RISD and is a regular teacher at The Studio at the Corning Museum. He lives and works just outside a small village near Rochester, New York, with his wife Kiyoko and their son Timo.

Contact him at milon@rochester.rr.com
Fulltime artist Jack White is a seasoned veteran who has been in the trenches of art marketing for 38 years. Selling his first painting for $10, he climbed his way to the top, earning the title of Official Texas State Artist. He was also an Admiral in the Texas Navy. Nineteen years ago Jack taught his wife, Mikki Senkarik, to paint and using his marketing knowledge has helped her reach great heights in her career.

For the past decade, Mr. White has written encouraging, helpful articles for Professional Artist Magazine, destroying myths, and revealing well-guarded marketing secrets. Mr. White has written six art marketing books that are available online at www.senkarik.com. The books teach things you never learned in art school and help dispel so many of the untruths artist have been taught by well meaning teachers and friends.

For those of you interested in reading a turn page novel, Jack’s latest book Ten Years in Texas will be available in hardcopy through Amazon. Com and Borders.com February 2008.
A former art consultant and assistant office manager at Hoypoloi Gallery in Orlando, Florida, Louise Buyo is the assistant editor of Professional Artist Magazine. In 2007, she graduated from the University of Florida with a B.A. in Art History, and has also studied at the Pratt Institute and the Paris Research Center. Louise served as a curatorial assistant in the exhibitions department at the Orlando Museum of Art and in the contemporary art department of the Harn Museum of Art.

In her blog (http://artseenorlando.wordpress.com), she reviews and shares details of Orlando's art scene.

Louise can be reached at LBuyo@professionalartistmag.com
Kim Hall is a Florida artist and writer who serves as Professional Artist Magazine Editor. After earning her bachelor's degree in Art from the University of Central Florida, she went on to study residential design, and completed graduate work in arts management. She worked as a freelance artist and writer, and served as the editor of the Celebration Independent Newspaper in Celebration, Florida, before coming to Professional Artist Magazine.

You may contact her at khall@professionalartistmag.com