About Ariane

Every morning I get up, do some yoga stretches (spinal twist and downward dog are my favorites – besides standing on my head). I drink a cup of green or black tea, swing my arms around in a little Qigong dance, lift free weights or run, and then bow my head in gratitude for a life where I can go to work for you.

As a writer, art-career coach, and entrepreneur who grew up in a family of artists, I have learned that it is possible for your creative right-brain and your career-strategy left-brain to become smooth-as-silk dancing partners.

I am also your ally, especially if you get that presenting your work with confidence and credibility is as basic as good art supplies.

The key, from where I sit, is our ability to pay attention to the tangibles and the intangibles, the nitty-gritty external world, and the often-hard-to-define-or-articulate internal world of self.

Gifted by life and hard work, artists illuminate our world.
But if this work is not in the world and of the world,
the candle sputters and dies.

Learning to nourish and shelter the offering that is your art,
with knowledge and action,
keeps the artist and the art shining for us all. —Ariane

For some of you, messing around in your interior landscapes feels like a waste of time, wishy-washy, trivial, woo-woo land, and literally immaterial.

And you may be right.

But it does bring up my most skeptical self: what might be behind Door No. 3?
And how might keeping that door closed impact your creative self in ways that are not helpful?

I am a gal who loves to explore both worlds. The good news is, you can skip over what doesn’t taste good to you because I’m always developing oodles of resources to satiate your desire for practical action.

The only book ever written on artist statements is mine (yAhoo!). Writing The Artist Statement, Revealing the True Spirit of Your Work has been recommended coast-to-coast, from the President of the Federation of Canadian Artists to the Career Center for Boston’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts – and I didn’t even pay these guys!

When I have the time to give 1000%, I coach a small handful of private clients, who nourish my desire to be of service, and keep my neural networks sparking like crazy as I use just about every skill I’ve ever had in the work we do together.

I use the knowledge base from my doctorate in Human Development and Creative Behavior to create a wide range of art-career materials, and events, to help artists take their careers to the next level.

Once my website launched — artist-statement.com — I watched my income triple in 3 months, and realized that I’d hit on critical pieces about website and Internet marketing, from outside the artist community, that would benefit any creative professional who is hungry for practical, solid information.

And I wanted a way to get that information into your hands.

From that desire, the smARTist® Telesummit was born. This annual art-career conference, with a dozen or more keynote speakers, now reaches 22 countries around the world, and 47 USA states.

And from the telesummit this smARTist Career Blog was born, as artist after artist asked me for a year-round way to stay in touch.

A great place to stay in touch is right here > my smARTip newsletter. It’s short. It’s once a week. And you can take action right away! Click here.

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About This Blog

I love working with creative *professionals like yourself.

(*Even if you don’t feel like a professional, go ahead and pretend. According to brain research, your brain won’t know the difference.)

When I help you move your art career to the next level, it rocks my world! This is the whole point of my annual, professional (there’s that word again!) development, Art-Career Conference, the smARTist® Telesummit.

And it’s also the point of this smARTist Career Blog, where you can get updates that keep you up-to-date!

This blog is for you and your art career, and between the two of us (Me: coach. You: artist.) all you need are the golden keys of Information, Inspiration, and Insight to enter your art career kingdom.

My hope is that you’ll find them here – all bright and shiny and itching to unlock whatever gate stands between you and success.

I like ideas that ask me to think as wide as the sky. So my challenge – to myself – is to serve you a combo platter of personal and professional (there’s that word again!) posts that do just that: widen the sky for all of us.

On Tuesday’s smARTIST’s Bragging Rights, my Telesummit alumni (means you registered for 1 or more of the live annual conferences) get to Brag About Their Successes. Do you have a recent success? Tell me!