Self-Management for Folk Artists

Self-Management for Folk Artists
A Guide for Traditional Artists and Performers in New York
by Patricia Atkinson Wells
Published in 1999 by the New York Folklore Society
Looseleaf binder, 148 pages

Now available here on-line.

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Folklore in Archives

Working with Folk Materials in New York State

New York Folklore Society
P.O. Box 764
Schenectady, NY 12301
518/346-7008
Fax 518/346-6617
nyfs@nyfolklore.org

Self-Management for Folk Artists: A Guide for Traditional Artists and Performers in New York, by Patricia Atkinson Wells, is designed to assist traditional artists in managing and marketing themselves.

You’ll find information here on

Writing biographical materials
Assembling a press kit
Starting a business
Expanding your audience
Resources and contacts

This 148-page manual, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, is the result of a collaboration between the Center for Traditional Music and Dance in New York City; Traditional Arts of Upstate New York in Canton, New York; RCCA: The Arts Center in Troy, New York; and Arts for Greater Rochester, New York.

Self-Management for Folk Artists is now available on-line in PDF format.

(When you click on the chapter links below, Adobe Acrobat Reader should open the document. If you do not have Acrobat Reader, you can download it free from the Adobe web site.)

Self-Management for Folk Artists is also available in an attractive looseleaf tabbed binder. You can purchase a copy at our on-line gallery shop, New York Traditions.