Hello all. This group is dedicated to those who derive, or wish to derive their income from their metalwork.

I truly believe that it is possible to be an artist and make a living at it. It just means educating yourself on things that might not be so familiar to you, and things you might not be so comfortable with.

This group is geared towards questions of pricing, shows, galleries, online sales, overhead, billing, taxes, math, business goals, motivation, risk taking, making a dream into reality. And anything else that gets you to your goal.

I am a self taught metal artist who now owns her own business. I fully sustain myself through my art, and am just starting to really grow as a company. To get to this point I have had to educate myself on things that the 'artist' usually shies away from. But the way I see it, if you have to do things you do not like for other bosses, it is going to be much more fun doing it for yourself.

I hope you will join me here.

Be well,
Alex in Welderland

blog entry

Title	Author	Replies	Last reply
Content Spamming and Tagging or Spamdexing	webminster	24	04/03/2007 - 16:27
Photographing Work?	paisleymermaid	12	02/26/2008 - 13:30
new website/buisness card	feorge	17	02/17/2008 - 17:39
Ideas about Business cards?	Valerie Rock	12	11/10/2006 - 01:32
Strange Markets for Sword Makers	webminster	10	12/03/2006 - 16:20
Spread yourself around. You never know what will happen. It could be miraculous.	Alex in Welderland	2	03/26/2007 - 22:29
Selling Online	Alex in Welderland	3	10/28/2006 - 12:05
How to get the word out.	browbrew	8	10/27/2006 - 16:28
Bronze Urn estimate needed	Alex in Welderland	1	11/16/2006 - 12:16
Oh the stress of it all...	Emfairmeadows	17	10/25/2006 - 15:18

event

Title	Author	Replies	Last reply
CHAT time	Valerie Rock	2	11/09/2006 - 20:02

image

Title	Author	Replies	Last reply
easiest way	B.J. Severtson	2	03/19/2008 - 11:35
work in progress for "DIRTY SHOW '08"	don thibodeaux	6	01/23/2007 - 19:23
morphed back again	B.J. Severtson	0	03/03/2008 - 19:19
tighter bracelet	B.J. Severtson	0	03/03/2008 - 19:17
morphed	B.J. Severtson	0	03/03/2008 - 19:15
This is great!!!	don thibodeaux	6	01/22/2007 - 20:51
3 panel wall piece returns from being nickel plated	don thibodeaux	4	01/20/2007 - 21:14
stainless steel chimney	don thibodeaux	0	04/22/2007 - 15:13
work in progress	don thibodeaux	2	01/23/2007 - 19:15
cetner panel	don thibodeaux	0	01/20/2007 - 21:25
left panel	don thibodeaux	0	01/20/2007 - 21:21
Imploding Cube	simmsie	8	11/19/2006 - 19:04