Adventures in Design Founder, Mark Brickey, recently completed episode 1,234 of his podcast, which is summarized on his website as, “A daily talk show for creatives just like you, exploring how others design happiness into their professional lives.” But like the majority of creatives, the elusive ‘happiness brand’ took some time to formulate.
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DesignerCon 2019: Mark Brickey x NOT REAL ART Creator, Sourdough: VIDEO INTERVIEW
On special assignment at DesignerCon 2019, podcaster and host of Adventures in Design Mark Brickey speaks to the creator of NOT REAL ART, Scott “Sourdough” Power
Learn The Arts Business — For Free. Register Today!
Announcing NOT REAL ART School: Hear top artists and experts teach essential business skills and lessons they don’t teach in art school. NOT REAL ART School offers 5 FREE business lectures all successful artists need to know.
New Burning Man Documentary ‘Art on Fire’ is Pandemic-Approved Entertainment
Burning Man 2020: This year it’s not the human petting zoos, fire-breathing dragons, or voluntary dust baths that seem strange—it’s their absence that startles. Art on Fire is a jaw-dropping spectacle that will put ants in your favorite pandemic sweatpants. Gerald Fox’s art-focused film is the perfect antidote to your quarantine blues
Artist Gardens: How Plants Are Helping Artists Get Through The Pandemic
Artist Gardens: It may be month five of the unending apocalypse, but my plants look wonderful. As the outside world gets more chaotic and cynical, I have found refuge with my plants and I’m not the only artist feeling this way.
TikTok: Trump Can’t Dance
TikTok is just as important to visual art and artists as IG, Facebook, YouTube and other specific art related communities on the Web. Save TikTok!
Anne Martin of Sugar Press Art on Following Your Instinct
NOT REAL ART talks to Anne Martin of Sugar Press Art about her creative journey working in the arts, helping artists and starting her own art publishing company.
Taking It To The Streets: How To Handle Trouble with The Police as a Protester
Artists have always contributed to protest and revolt in ways that capture the dialogue and propel people forward. But Artists may need to do things now as protest that maybe they don’t see as art. So what follows are links to guides prepared by good, solid sources about what to do if you run into trouble as a protester.
Quarantoons by Bill Kieffer
Quarantoons by Bill Kieffer
Cheyanne Sauter of Art Share LA: Inspiring Leadership in the Arts
Cheyanne Sauter, Executive Director of Art Share LA, speaks to NOT REAL ART about the challenges of leading a non-profit arts organization during good times and tough times.
Beth Abaravich: Scenes from the Edge of Fashion
An essay — and artworks — from the edge of fashion; a literary and visual creation from artist Beth Abaravich
Connections in Context: Friendships in Art
Artist Rachel O’Donnell shares the importance of finding your tribe in the art world.
Laugh Gallery: When Comics Do Art
At NOT REAL ART, we think art shouldn’t be so serious and humor is a great way to celebrate art and the artists who make it. So, we are teaming up with veteran comic Katie Love to see if comedians can use their funny bones to make art more relatable. So…
Free Legal Advice For Artists
Sage legal guidance for artists from Deviant Art’s former chief legal advisor Joshua Wattles.
City of Fish: Quarantoons by Bill Kieffer
City of Fish: Quarantoons by Bill Kieffer
Postcards from the Apocalypse by Rachel O’Donnell, Artist
Whelp, this certainly wasn’t covered in art school. Right now, we’re in the midst of a global pandemic and being confronted by some pretty uncomfortable realities. I’m constantly vacillating between two contrasting reactions which I’m sure has become the norm for all of us. But where does this leave the art world when the real world is falling to pieces?
How to Grow the Art (Mass) Market
COVID-19 is a real and deadly threat that must be respected and dealt with immediately. Yet, it’s not the long term problem plaguing independent visual artists. The long term problem facing artists is: lack of consumer demand for original art.
City of Fish: Quarantoons by Bill Kieffer
Art from the mind of artist Bill Keiffer
NOT REAL ART and Artist Bill Kieffer Announce ‘City of Fish’ Collaboration
Bill Kieffer is one of those artists too talented to put in a box. A multi-discplinary, multi-dimensional, multi-media creative professional, Bill writes, designs, paints, draws, sculpts, fabricates and tattoos. He’s exhibited his artwork in art galleries, created commercial work for global brands, produced stop motion animation in Hollywood and he’s tattooed hundreds of proud clients’ bodies with his art.
NOT REAL ART Announces Its 2020 Grant Recipients: Breaking News
NOT REAL ART Announces Its 2020 Grant Recipients: Breaking News
Man One x Sneakertopia: Video
Contemporary Artist Man One discusses his art installation at Sneakertopia, a pop-up art museum in Los Angeles focused on sneaker culture.
Rachel O’Donnell: 2019 Grant Winner
Rachel O’Donnell was born in Dallas, TX and attended a performing arts school where she studied ballet and contemporary dance. “That’s kind of where I thought my creative path was going. Then I ended up taking art classes and really enjoyed it. I had a teacher who said I should pursue this on a professional level.”
Jessie Noguchi: 2019 Grant Winner
It was early morning in Japan when Jessie Noguchi called in for the interview. She was visiting her family there, following the loss of her grandmother who deeply influenced her life and her art. “My grandmother had an eye for art and she knew what she liked. It always came from her soul and not because the painter was famous or anything like that. In February 2018, before my grandmother passed away, she requested that I do something to express myself to the world because she knew that I am the kind of person who is still dreaming of things I want to do. So I started posting Instagram photos and also digital paintings and paintings on canvas.”
Thony Loui: 2019 Grant Winner
Thony Loui was born and raised in Haiti and always knew he would be an artist. “I loved art, but I didn’t get serious until I was in high school when I made a logo for a famous local band.” This brush with fame wouldn’t be Loui’s last. In 2018, he was commissioned by Conan O’Brien to paint Conan’s portrait on the back of one of Haiti’s tap-tap buses. “He gave me 24 hours to do the painting on the tap-tap bus, which I did!”
Monica Leal Cueva: 2019 Grant Winner
Monica Leal Cueva was born in Mexico City and grew up in Monterrey, Mexico. After relocating to Los Angeles twelve years ago, she found it challenging to adapt and suffered bouts of anxiety and depression. Sometimes, her anxiety was such that she couldn’t do everyday tasks like go to the grocery store. Taking art classes and working at an art studio “changed everything,” shared Leal Cueva.
