Brainard Carey. Artist, Art Coach, Writer…Review

Brainard Carey is an artist and art careers coach. As co founder and director of “The Art World Demystified,” Brainard has been advising artists for the past twenty years as well as working himself as a successful artist. He has walked the walk that many of us artists are struggling to walk now and is using his experience in all of the business and marketing aspects of being an artist to help those of us who need the help. Having exhibited at the Whitney Museum in New York as well as other gallery shows and having owned and run a successful gallery and art magazine, Brainard knows exactly what it takes to succeed in the art world. He imparts his wisdom succinctly and with great attention to detail with weekly tips, audio interviews and helpful stories in his weekly newsletter which is exclusive to subscribers.

I am a subscriber have been receiving coaching from Brainard for a few months now. If you follow my blog, you will be aware that I have had a rather rough fifteen months or so. Without going into detail, I have divulged some pretty personal feelings about my state of mind regarding my struggle with work as a result of tragic real world circumstances taking a toll on me psychologically and physically. Stress makes my endometriosis and adenomyosis symptoms flare up big time! Everybody goes through bad things, that’s just life. You have to roll with the punches etc… You know the drill. The time came a little earlier this year when I had to drag myself back up and focus on myself and my career. I was struggling. So I looked for help and I found Brainard. Brainard managed to somehow, get me to feel excited about work and life again and to focus on my vision and dream. In his friendly, charming and honest manner, he has helped me to again start to visualize my future as it should be and to focus on the small goals that I need to achieve in order to reach the bigger goals. I have never NOT known what I want for myself, for my career. I don’t think any coach can tell you what you want, but they can help you to see clearly through the fog and to focus on what is important. They can strip everything down to the basics and then build you back up again so that your path is clear once more. Click here for more information on coaching from Brainard and his email newsletter.

The subscription meant that I got a copy of Brainard’s DVD Income Strategies For Artists. If you are an artist and you choose not to subscribe to Brainards email newsletter or to sign up for coaching sessions, you still need to get a copy of his DVD. Brainard clearly and succinctly gives you lots of ideas for generating income as an artist with real world examples based on artists that he knows who are successful. I took notes through the whole thing and have watched it twice so far. You don’t have to be starving to be an artist, Brainard has plenty of examples of artists who are doing very well thank you very much. If you don’t believe me, you can read plenty of reviews on Amazon.

Art Success Series
I will be interviewing Brainard for my “Art Success Series” very soon. Brainard was kind enough not only to agree to an interview, but also to occasionally write helpful guest posts for my blog! Keep your eyes peeled for his first blog post and interview. I will tweet and share all over the internet and hope you will too. Brainard is an inspiration to me and to many other artists, so we can’t be greedy and keep him all to ourselves, we must share!

Oh, did I mention that he is also a published author? No? He is, and you can pre-order his book “Making It in the Art World: New Approaches to Galleries, Shows, and Raising Money” on Amazon. It is due for release in October 2011.