The Artist Business Plan How to Get Press with Shana Nys Dambrot
In this episode of The Artist Business Plan we sit down with art critic, curator, author, and editor, Shana Nys Dambrot. We discuss the elusive act of getting press for your work. Shana advises how to evolve your pitch, utilize a mailing list, and how to write a press kit. She also shares how she uses the new audio connection app Clubhouse to feed her passion for art and how you can use it to explore networks. Remember, to an art critic or journalist, “the most important thing is that it’s [your work is] not boring.”
Guest: Shana Nys Dambrot is an art critic, curator, and author based in Downtown LA. She is the Arts Editor for the L.A. Weekly, and a contributor to Flaunt, Art & Cake, and Artillery. She studied Art History at Vassar College, writes book and catalog essays, curates and juries exhibitions, is a dedicated Instagram photographer and is the author of the experimental novella Zen Psychosis (2020, Griffith Moon). She speaks at galleries, schools, and cultural institutions nationally, and is a member of ArtTable and the LA Press Club, and sits on the Boards of Art Share-LA and the Venice Institute of Contemporary Art, the Advisory Council of Building Bridges Art Exchange, and the Brain Trust of Some Serious Business.
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