The Lucrative Artist
Brian WitkowskiFor artists and creative practitioners who are ready to earn more—without selling out, burning out, or waiting for permission. This page is more than just career and business advice—it’s intellectual infrastructure for a better creative economy.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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Your Price is Your Pedagogy
Would you rather give someone a fish, or teach them how to fish?
We’ve all heard the classic proverb:
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
It sounds rhetorical.
Bu...
I Am Going to the Lordy: A Structural Reading of Assassins
This is the fourth piece in a series where I’m taking shows I’ve been in—plus one I was almost in—and using it as a vehicle for a reflective structural analysis of what it’s like to pursue a modern performing career as a classical singer. T...
The Number You Can’t Quite Say Out Loud
I spent an hour recently on The Fourforty with Eric Branner, talking about why good teachers leave studios, how to build a practice that compounds instead of churning, and the new federal rule that could change what music schools are...
The Sunk Cost of Identity: A Structural Reading of Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
Photo Credit: Sarah Kozma
One underappreciated aspect of the arts is how they can be a vehicle for better understanding ourselves and our circumstances, and on a much deeper level than we may be used to. This piece continues a series of su...
The Death of Making Your Teacher Proud as a Business Model
Photo by Alexander Zvir on Unsplash
I’ve written before about how recent changes to federal borrowing are going to make it harder for students like me to study what they want, where they want, and when they want.
We can argue the problem...
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Using my own artistic career as a lens, I write about the structural failures shaping labor, value, and income in the arts and beyond—and the infrastructure artists, educators, and others will need to finally build the better world we all deserve.
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