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Marketing | Artist Wellness | Attention Economy

By Vicky Blume
June 24th, 2025

Craving attention, recognition, and validation for your work is a painfully relatable experience for most artists, especially those of us trying to make a living within the attention economy. It can take a lifetime to cultivate a marketing mindset, and the process often raises profound, unanswerable questions about the nature and boundaries of artmaking and attention. Who are we making art for, and why?