Your Art Will Save Your Life Audiobook, by Beth Pickens Play Audiobook Sample

Your Art Will Save Your Life Audiobook

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Read By: Beth Pickens Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 1.67 hours at 1.5x Speed 1.25 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: November 2018 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781982593780

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

11

Longest Chapter Length:

54:09 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

02:00 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

13:01 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

2

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Publisher Description

As a teenager visiting the Andy Warhol Museum, Beth Pickens realized the importance of making art. As an adult, she has worked as a consultant empowering artists. Intimate yet practical, Your Art Will Save Your Life helps artists build a sustainable practice while navigating the world of MFAs, residencies, and institutional funding.

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“If you are a person who needs to make art in order to function, this book is from your best, smartest, coolest, most insightful, wise, learned, practical, savvy, no-bullshit friend.”

— Lucy Corin, author of One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses 

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  • “Your Art Will Save Your Life is the artist’s guidebook to create, thrive, and survive amid any political shitstorm.”

    — Bust
  • “A dense, power-punch of info.”

    — Portland (OR) Mercury
  • “This funny, tender, totally usable guide provides a bundle of simple methods that will allow you to focus on creative projects, reenergize, grow joy, and take risks.”

    — Harry Dodge, artist
  • “An electrically inspiring, politically fresh, and class-conscious guide for artists who wish to engage more deeply with their process, their careers, and their lives.”

    — Michelle Tea, author of Modern Tarot
  • “Essential reading for anyone who has ever felt overwhelmed by art, activism, or adulting.”

    — Ann Friedman, cohost of Call Your Girlfriend
  • “Beth Pickens’s theories on art and practice have changed and enriched my life.”

    — Nicole Georges, author of Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home

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  • Overall Performance: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5 Narration Rating: 4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5 Story Rating: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5

    — Robert Clontz, 1/18/2019

About Beth Pickens

Beth Pickens is a Los Angeles–based consultant for artists and arts organizations. She provides career consultation, grant writing, fundraising, and financial, strategic, and project planning services for clients across the United States. She earned her MEd in counseling psychology from the University of Missouri–Columbia. Before relocating to Los Angeles in 2014, Pickens was based in San Francisco and served as senior program manager at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and managing director of both RADAR Productions and the Queer Cultural Center.