Want generous patrons who believe in you and are interested in funding your particular work?
Published: Wed, 01/23/19
Attention Artists:
I am pouring all of this out of my head and onto a computer screen near you, for free on 28 January 2019:
What never to say in a letter to a potential patron
(When you make this social faux pas, donors perceive you as greedy and don’t take your work seriously)
How to frame the dream you have, be it a painting or a film, so that it gets funded
(This old-school fundraising technique used by the Kabakovs practically guarantees that your letters will be read with pleasure and responded to generously)
AND...
Why you need to add this phrase about your work to your correspondence
(If you do this you get ongoing support that continues year after year. If you don’t do it, patrons resent you because they feel like ATM machines and stop donating)
Want in?
Donor-Based Funding For Artists is taking place live on 28 January 2019 at 1:30pm EST.
Click here to get signed up automatically
You will walk out of the webinar with a step-by-step method you can use to find patrons that are interested in funding your particular work (without bothering the people you already know or feeling like you’re asking for a handout).
Listen, not knowing these writing errors and social faux pas means that the best art, the best ideas will go unfunded.
And then the dream will die and the world will be robbed of one more expression that might have changed at least one person’s life, because art can do that on the most subtle level.
Don’t let that happen to your work.
See you on Monday!
Brainard Carey
PS: There will be a replay, but only for those who register. So click the link above even if you can’t make it to the live session.
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