Staying Legal
It costs a few dollars, but it’s really great to have a lawyer and/or an accountant who keeps track of all of the legal stuff like renewing your Merchant Certificate and your Business Entity Report. The important work for the…
How to Make Art, Keep Your Soul and Make Money.
How to Make Art, Keep Your Soul and Make Money.
Category Musings
The 5th Grade & How I Became an Artist
Talking to the 5th graders gave me a clear insight into how fulfilling the 5th grade was. It's when I became an artist. It's when I learned about realism & abstraction. It's when I started looking at the world with an artist's eye. Maybe it's in the 5th grade when we can clearly see who we want to be when we grow up.
Not Art Speak, Not Corporate Speak
I can throw around words like “abstract expressionism” in the semi-secret language of people who create, go to museums and understand decades and centuries by style of painting. We can speak with to each other. We have a particular language.…
Art Workers – Hiring is Hard
Hiring used to be easy I thought it would be easy to hire people to work for Avant Garb Mascots, my small, arty, mascot-making company. At first, it was easy . I was able to hire people who had grown…
Art Art Art & Money Money Money
The Museum of Modern Art helped raise me. When I was young, my friends and I would take the F train from Queens to 53rd Street and go hang out at the Museum of Modern Art -or as we called…
In Praise of Foolish Decisions
Rationality is over-rated - in praise of foolish decisions
Flirting is Marketing / Marketing is Flirting
Putting on the lipstick & the heels! When I start complaining to my, sometimes exasperated, staff that we will have no work after we finish whatever mascot we are working on….….and we will be absolutely out of money,…..nobody will ever…
The Mascot Studio – Favorite photos – Artists in the Material World
Some mascot makers at AvantGarb Mascots – Kristin, Megan and Anne and the Loudmouth Fish Laura shows off her muscles! I bought a “Boss Lady” tee shirt & it inspired a whole outfit – complete w/ my aunt’s pearls and…
Art Biz & Hiring
When first started AvantGarb (we’re a custom, mascot making company), I was the only employee. I did everything, designed, made the mascots, shipped them, did the marketing —everything.Quickly, I realized I was going to have to hire people. Just as…
Art Workers
Carlos & Jennifer “talking design” “How satisfied are we with our jobs? Gallup regularly polls workers around the world to find out. Its survey last year found that almost 90 percent of workers were either “not engaged” with or “actively…