Cultural value and professionalization of emerging contemporary artists
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2023
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Fillis, I.
Lee, B.
Fraser, I.
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Wyszomirski, M.J.
Chang, W.
Chang, W.
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Source details - Title: Professionalization in the Creative Sector : Policy, Collective Action, and Institutionalization, 2023 / Wyszomirski, M.J., Chang, W. (ed./s), Ch.9, pp.164-183
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For newly graduated art school students to become professional artists in the long-term, self-sustaining income-generating practices beyond selling their art are often required. We focus on how a prestigious annual contemporary art exhibition contributes to the professionalization process through its ability to synthesize market production and consumption activities involving the exhibiting artists, art schools, partnering organizations, and members of the public. The exhibition acts as a platform for the professionalization of the newly graduated art school students. We recommend that art school students graduate with both artistic creative competencies and a range of embedded entrepreneurial skills relating to networking, idea generation, and creativity in order for them to sustain their professional artist status. Sustained institutional, peer, and wider network support for artists is required if they are to survive professionally, economically, and artistically. Our work also informs theory and practice in the wider cultural landscape, including cultural entrepreneurship.
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Copyright 2024 selection and editorial matter, Margaret J. Wyszomirski and WoongJo Chang; individual chapters, the contributors. The right of Margaret J. Wyszomirski and WoongJo Chang to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.