Quantifying Creativity

Pricing your art is different from making art; it’s something you do with your art after it’s made, when it’s ready to leave your studio and get sold either by you personally or through a gallery, at an art fair, online, at open studios, through an agent or representative, wherever. Making art is about the individual personal creative process, experiences that come from within; pricing art for sale is about what’s happening on the outside, in the real world where things are bought and sold for money, and where market forces dictate in large part how much those things are worth… Read more of this interesting article By Alan Bamberger here.

PLUS:

• ArtDeadline.Com’s handy Dandy Art Festival / Market Event Checklist
  a general checklist for things to do and bring when planning to participate in an art or craft sale / festival.
• ArtDeadline.Com’s Art Pricing Worksheet (pdf)
  A nicely organized worksheet for determining the value of your art for selling, plus additional information.
• Tips for Selling at Arts/Craft Shows
  A few thoughts on booth organization, displays, and set up to sell your items in person. Also see: AD.C’s Art Festival / Market Event Checklist & Hints’; ‘Festivals and Events: The Art of the Sale’; ‘How to Sell at Craft Fairs and Shows’…
• Many more resources available within the ARTicle Database.