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## [6 Tips to Improve Your Art Grant Applications](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/6-tips-to-improve-your-art-grant-applications)
By [Nina Berman](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/author/nina-berman)
August 24th, 2020
Applying for grants as an artist can be challenging. It can be time consuming and hard. It can sometimes feel like you’re sending out applications into a void never to hear back from funders. If you are consistently not receiving funding that you’re applying for, you might not even know why.
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## [5 Strategies to Get Media Attention for Your Art](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/strategies-media-attention-for-your-art)
By [Nina Berman](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/author/nina-berman)
August 20th, 2020
Some artists want to make art for art's sake and don’t want or even need other people to see it. Abstract artist and mystic Hilma af Klimt didn’t want people looking at her visionary paintings until 20 years after her death, for instance. But for the rest of us, we want our art to be seen! We want people to come to our performances, to our gallery shows, to listen to our podcasts, to read our poetry.
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## [How Do I Find Time To Make Art?](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/find-time-make-art)
By [Nina Berman](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/author/nina-berman)
August 13th, 2020
Not every artist has the luxury of making art whenever inspiration strikes. Most artists are juggling other jobs – sometimes full-time jobs – plus other responsibilities like taking care of children or elders. It can be hard to find time to make your work, or to justify spending time on your creative endeavors. As a fiscal sponsor and artist membership organization, Fractured Atlas is dedicated to providing artists with tools and information to help you find more time and energy to do your artwork. We want more artists to make more work. Even when things are bad, we need art and we need artists. Plus, as artists ourselves, we feel the struggle between our creative work, our careers, and the rest of our lives!
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## [Why Is It So Hard for Artists To Talk About Money?](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/why-is-it-so-hard-for-artists-to-talk-about-money)
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August 13th, 2020
It’s not easy for anyone to talk about money.
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## [Best Budgeting Tools for Artists](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/best-budgeting-tools-for-artists)
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July 27th, 2020
Artists often need help with money. It’s not because artists are necessarily bad with money, it’s just that money tends to be extra complicated for creatives. You might be balancing multiple freelance jobs, running a small business, hiring freelancers yourself, processing tickets and donations, renting equipment, and juggling multiple recurring payments for tools like fiscal sponsorship, a website, and more.
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## [How to Find Art Grants: Research Tips and Strategies](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/how-do-i-find-artist-grants-research-tips-and-strategies-past)
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July 22nd, 2020
Whether you’re an individual artist or budding young arts collective, googling “artist grants” will only get you so far, friend. Most of us are aware that grants and other funding opportunities exist, but don’t know where to find them or how to cultivate a sustainable research routine. It takes quite a bit of open-minded foraging, disciplined hunting, and genuine community building to keep your application plate full of real, feasible opportunities, rather than expensive busy work. Like a grizzly bear posting up at a bend in the river in anticipation of salmon season, or filter-feeding barnacles that grab tasty stuff as it floats by, there are plenty of different tools and strategies to choose from when you’re developing your own, personal approach to discovering new funding opportunities.
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## [What are Artist Grants? An Introduction for First-Time Applicants](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/what-are-artist-grants-introduction-for-first-time-applicants)
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June 29th, 2020
At Fractured Atlas, it’s an understatement to say that we deal with grants a lot.
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## [The Sound Co-op: Building Collective Power as Creative Professionals](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/the-sound-co-op-building-collective-power-creative-professionals)
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June 24th, 2020
Huge numbers of artists and creatives are out of work as a result of COVID-19. And while we recognize that grants, fundraisers, and government aid are crucial right now, we know that they aren’t sufficient for us to rebuild our sector. We need systemic change to the ways that we work together, and in the ways that we work with clients and employers. One possible structure to build systemic change is cooperatives, or co-ops. Cooperatives are formed when groups of people pool resources and share in decision-making to share in risk and reward. In co-ops, workers are the owners.
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## [What Are Artist Co-ops?](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/what-are-artist-co-ops)
By [Nina Berman](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/author/nina-berman)
June 24th, 2020
The life of an artist can be a financially precarious one. You might be spending a big chunk of your own personal money buying supplies, traveling for research and then to show your work, or hiring outside help with funds out of your pocket to realize your vision. You might spend your time applying for grants and other funding opportunities without knowing if they are going to come to fruition. You might never see that money come back in the form of sales, royalties, or freelance jobs. And in case of emergency, artists are hard-hit. As we’ve seen in the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, when an emergency happens and planned contracts or shows fall through, there aren’t real safety nets for artists. There are very few formal mechanisms to support creatives and freelancers in an economic crisis, even though art has been more crucial than ever in the age of social distancing. We’ve seen tremendous and inspiring work to support artists in emergency. We’ve seen emergency grants, mutual aid funds, and spontaneous organizations of artists sharing resources and supporting each other. But we know that that isn’t enough.
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## [Ways for Artists to Raise Money: Crowdfunding, General Support, Recurring Support, and Grants](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/ways-artists-raise-money-crowdfunding-general-support-recurring-support-grants)
By [Nina Berman](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/author/nina-berman)
June 18th, 2020
As an artist, you need money to make your work. You might need money to pay someone to build your website, run lights for your play, or purchase the raw materials to make costumes.
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