Shoebox Arts
Shoebox Arts on Substack offers practical guidance for artists navigating career challenges, networking anxiety, and professional development through community-driven content and real-world advice.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 238 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 3 days ago |
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Too close to the art
Sometimes I wish I could unknow what I know.
Not forever. Just for an afternoon. Just long enough to walk into a gallery and feel something without immediately knowing how the meat is made.
Because that’s what happens when you’ve been ins...
You are worth choosing.
Say it again.
You are worth choosing.
That’s the thing nobody tells you when they talk about building an art career. All the advice about networking and pitching and submitting and applying is useless if you don’t believe that first. Beca...
Building Relationships
The Long Game of Building a Career
I want to talk about the difference between networking and relationships because I think we’ve been sold a version of building a career in the art world that doesn’t actually work and leaves a lot of arti...
The Roller Coaster
I was a ride operator at Magic Mountain. I can totally vouch for this analogy.
There’s a moment on a roller coaster right before it pulls into the station. The ride is over. You’re slowing down. Everything that was moving so fast a minute...
Making Bad Art
I stopped Performing Presence twelve days in.
A month off social media, documented daily on Substack. That was the plan. I made it twelve days and then I stopped. Not because I failed. Because it wasn’t telling the story I needed to tell....
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LA arts org supporting artists through community building, professional development & creative collaboration. From "Call & Response" projects to artist surveys, we create inclusive spaces where artists thrive. Building bridges in the art world.
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