No matter how great the talent or how strong the discipline, the door to success swings on financial pegs.
Clark Hulings embarked on his easel-painting career when he was forty years old, abandoning a thriving profession as a commercial artist to “teach himself how to be a gallery painter,” as he himself put it. He was fortunate to finance this transition himself with savings from his illustration work. Most do not have this option. The Fund seeks to help artists like Clark Hulings - determined professionals who work very hard and produce terrific work – by providing targeted financial support at pivotal moments that will force open doors and drive their careers forward.
In 2014, we are looking to award more grants, deliver seminars, interviews and information to enable artists to compete and thrive in an increasingly complex marketplace. Now we need your support to make an even bigger difference. Successful visual artists surmount obstacles faced by few others. They fund and manage their own small businesses while creating salable art they’re proud of. They are rarely trained to meet such a tall order, and they do so on a shoestring. The Clark Hulings Fund offers strategic business and financial assistance to help up-and-coming visual artists leap these hurdles.
Please help! Your contribution provides tangible support to professional artists. Your generosity will be properly recognized and appreciated by all who treasure the visual arts.
Here is a snapshot of the first two artists who have benefited from this Fund! Two months ago we awarded two artists with grants totaling $9,500 -
Clark Hulings embarked on his easel-painting career when he was forty years old, abandoning a thriving profession as a commercial artist to “teach himself how to be a gallery painter,” as he himself put it. He was fortunate to finance this transition himself with savings from his illustration work. Most do not have this option. The Fund seeks to help artists like Clark Hulings - determined professionals who work very hard and produce terrific work – by providing targeted financial support at pivotal moments that will force open doors and drive their careers forward.
In 2014, we are looking to award more grants, deliver seminars, interviews and information to enable artists to compete and thrive in an increasingly complex marketplace. Now we need your support to make an even bigger difference. Successful visual artists surmount obstacles faced by few others. They fund and manage their own small businesses while creating salable art they’re proud of. They are rarely trained to meet such a tall order, and they do so on a shoestring. The Clark Hulings Fund offers strategic business and financial assistance to help up-and-coming visual artists leap these hurdles.
Please help! Your contribution provides tangible support to professional artists. Your generosity will be properly recognized and appreciated by all who treasure the visual arts.
Here is a snapshot of the first two artists who have benefited from this Fund! Two months ago we awarded two artists with grants totaling $9,500 -
- Lauren Frances Adams, plans to use the Clark Hulings Fund for upcoming site-specific projects at the Clermont Farm in Virginia (an ex-slave plantation) & at American University’s Katzen Museum in Washington, D.C.
- Lydia Musco, plans to use the grant to fund a new site-specific outdoor sculpture, in conjunction with a gallery show of her smaller work, at the Petersham Art Center in Petersham, Massachusetts.
