In The Entrepreneurial Artist: Lessons from Highly Successful Creatives, Aaron Dworkin offers an engaging, practical guide to achieving artistic fulfillment, both personally and professionally. Based on the accomplishments of Shakespeare, Mozart, and several contemporary creatives, these lessons will help you realize your goals—no matter your medium. Among those Dworkin personally interviewed for this book are Emmy-winning actor Jeff Daniels, Tony-award winning choreographer Bill T. Jones, Grammy award-winning musician Wynton Marsalis, and Pulitzer Prize winner Lin-Manuel Miranda, among others. The stories of these twelve remarkable individuals come alive with lessons of love, loss, despair, sacrifice, perseverance, and triumph.
Some of the artist-entrepreneur takeaways explored in this book include:
- Build partnerships—with peers, patrons, and sponsors
- Embrace diversity
- Expand your focus
- Allow your work to mature
Whether one is an aspiring student artist in search of practical tools to build a sustainable career, or a veteran seeking reinvention, The Entrepreneurial Artist offers insights—well-tested, unusual, or innovative—that are meaningful for every kind of creative.
Author(s): Aaron P. Dworkin
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 184
City: Lanham
Contents
An Introduction of Uncommon Rhythm
William Shakespeare
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Jeff Daniels
Bill T. Jones
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Rachel Barton Pine
Damien Sneed
Lee Greenwood
Marin Alsop
Damon Gupton
Chip Davis
Midori
Wynton Marsalis
Conclusion
Notes
Index
About the Author
