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Your Art Will Save Your Life

Beth Pickens

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A candid and encouraging guidebook about creating art as political upheaval, censorship, and oppression become normal.
Paperback / softback
17-July-2018
136 Pages
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A candid guidebook about art-making in the midst of oppression-"a slim, necessary revelation" (Maggie Nelson,The Argonauts).

Visiting the Andy Warhol Museum as a teenager, Beth Pickens realized that art was imperative for reflecting-and thus remaking-the world. As an adult, she has dedicated her life to arts nonprofits and consulting, helping marginalized artists traverse the world of MFAs, residences, and institutional funding.

Writing in the aftermath of the 2016 election, Pickens reminds emerging artists that their art is more important than ever. She gives advice on fostering creativity and sustaining an innovative practice as conversations about grants, public programming, and arts funding in schools grow ever-more heated. Part political manifesto, partpractical manual, this resourcereminds us that art has always been a tool of resistance.

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A candid guidebook about art-making in the midst of oppression-"a slim, necessary revelation" (Maggie Nelson,The Argonauts).

Visiting the Andy Warhol Museum as a teenager, Beth Pickens realized that art was imperative for reflecting-and thus remaking-the world. As an adult, she has dedicated her life to arts nonprofits and consulting, helping marginalized artists traverse the world of MFAs, residences, and institutional funding.

Writing in the aftermath of the 2016 election, Pickens reminds emerging artists that their art is more important than ever. She gives advice on fostering creativity and sustaining an innovative practice as conversations about grants, public programming, and arts funding in schools grow ever-more heated. Part political manifesto, partpractical manual, this resourcereminds us that art has always been a tool of resistance.

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