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An Independent Artist’s Survival Guide: Business Basics and Art Ethics
Are you an independent or emerging visual artist who wants to build a sustainable creative practice, while also working towards more equity in the arts?
Join artist and cultural worker Jenie Gao to learn about pricing your artwork and creative services, business planning, and best practices to help you build a financially viable arts profession that aligns with your values. Designed as an interactive session, the program will include discussion, audience questions, and opportunities to meet and learn from other artists in attendance.
Limited spaces, RSVP requested.
About the Presenter:
Jenie is a second generation Taiwanese-Chinese American and a descendant of working class immigrants. Their research and advocacy work focuses on issues of artists’ labor, cultural power, and resilient community ecosystems.
Jenie has a BFA in Printmaking/Drawing from Washington University in St. Louis (2010) and an MFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2023). Their work is in over 40 institutional collections including Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Library of Congress, Cornell University, and Stanford University. Their recent exhibitions include Museum of Wisconsin Art, South Bend Museum of Art, Pratt Munson Gallery at Munson Museum, grunt gallery, and CICA Vancouver. As a guest curator, Jenie curated Guiding Ethos, an inaugural exhibition for the Trout Museum of Art’s new building in 2025-2026, featuring 25 international artists.
Jenie’s work has been published on PBS, Stir Magazine, and Fête Chinoise. Their art residencies include Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Banff, Alberta; Women’s Studio Workshop in Kingston, New York; Art in the Park with Vancouver Board of Parks & Recreation: Decolonization, Art, & Culture; Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation in Southampton, New York; Iowa Lakeside Laboratory in Okoboji, Iowa; Proyecto’ace in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo de Arte Moderno in Chile; and more. They are a TEDx Madison speaker and gave a talk entitled The Power and Purpose of Creativity
About the Artist Salon Series:
RAG Artist Salon features art professionals leading inspirational artist talks and professional development for visual artists each month from February to November. Programs are either live-streamed online or hosted in person. Past livestreams may be viewed as on-demand videos on the RAG@Home video page.
