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What do you do when the platform you built your business on changes the rules? For Mindy Young of Indy Bloom Design, that moment forced a reckoning β and a pivot that ultimately made her business stronger.
In this episode, Stacie Bloomfield sits down with M...
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What happens when a software engineer goes looking for fabric she can't find and decides to design it herself? For Mel Armstrong, that one question launched a career she couldn't have planned β and a life built entirely around art, illustration, teaching, an...
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What does it take to turn watercolor paintings into a seven-figure art brand? Ben Taylor Paladino took a year off from Stanford during COVID, set up a booth at a Dallas farmers market, and figured out how to sell his art face-to-face as a self-described intr...
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What happens when you mix illustration, consistency, and a willingness to charge what your work is actually worth? You get Jess Miller β an artist who built a thriving, multi-stream business by showing up every day and treating content creation like the legi...
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Madison Phipps is a Houston-based artist, mom to a toddler, and full-time professional β and she's building a creative side business in the margins of an already full life. No studio. No dedicated hours. Just nap times, evenings, and a whole lot of heart.
I...
So many talented artists are told that a professional art career is an impossible dream β by people outside the art world, and sometimes by fellow artists who've given up on their own. The advice to "be practical" and "keep art as a hobby" is everywhere. And while practicality has its place, buildin...
If you've ever felt like your creative path is too weird to follow someone else's blueprint β too many disciplines, too many pivots, too much of a zigzag β Brittany Warner-Smith's story is going to feel like a deep exhale.
Brittany is a full-time artist who considers herself a bit of a nomad, curre...
Today I'm sharing a story from one of my Leverage Your Art graduates β a story that captures exactly why I built this course and why I keep teaching it.
Elizabeth Berglund is a freelance graphic designer, illustrator, and art director based in Memphis, Tennessee. She'd always dreamed of creating mo...
The number one question I get asked as a business owner isn't about licensing or pitching or pricing. It's this: What does "Gingiber" mean, and how did you come up with it?
It's a fair question. The name is unusual, memorable, and a little mysterious β which is partly why it works so well as a bran...
Sometimes I wish I could go back in time and tell my younger self that the dream was going to happen. That the art career I longed for β the one that felt impossible from where I was standing β was actually going to become real.
There was a time when the dream to have an art career felt like exactl...
One of the most common questions I get from artists thinking about launching an art licensing business is: how much is this actually going to cost me? It's a smart question. And the answer is probably better than you think.
When I started my art business in 2009, my out-of-pocket expenses were my a...
Are you excited to talk about creating a great art licensing pitch email? Because I am! If you've been following along with the Art + Audience content, you know that the pitch is one of the most important and most avoided steps in building an art licensing business. So let's talk about it β specific...
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What do artists who've actually made it look like on the other side? Not the highlight reel β the real version, from people who sat where you're sitting and did the work to get somewhere different.
In this episode of the Art + Audience podcast, Stacie Bloom...
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Every artist-entrepreneur hits a wall eventually. Sales plateau. The email list stops growing. A launch falls flat. And the silence after something you believed in doesn't land β that's one of the hardest things to sit with in a creative business.
In this s...
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How many emails should you send your list? It's one of the most common questions artists ask β and the answer that helped Stacie Bloomfield's brand Gingiber grow from a $100K Etsy shop to a $2M business might surprise you.
In this episode of the Art + Audie...
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One of the most common struggles artists face isn't a lack of passion β it's too much of it. Three creative directions pulling at once. Multiple income stream ideas, none of them quite ready. A style that's evolving and a voice that hasn't settled yet. In th...
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Sophie Timms left a law career in the UK to pick up an embroidery hoop during lockdown. What started as a creative escape became a membership community with nearly 200 members and a 93% retention rate β built almost entirely solo, with a toddler at home, thr...
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This is Part 2 of Stacie Bloomfield's conversation with Andy J. Pizza β host of the Creative Pep Talk podcast and one of the most thoughtful voices in creative entrepreneurship. If Part 1 was about understanding yourself as a creative, Part 2 is about what y...
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Georgia Norton Lodge started charging $35 for house sketches β ten minutes each, forty a month β before "side hustle" was even a word. She did it while working a full-time job, moonlighting through exhaustion, and not knowing yet that those little drawings w...
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Laura Holley only draws Melbourne. That's it β pubs, laneways, iconic city spots, and the culture woven into all of it. And because she committed to that singular focus, she built a thriving multi-stream art business with a cult following, a beloved calendar...
