Reinventing Your Art Career with Ali Cavanaugh (ep. 189)

host: Alyson Stanfield


In 2014, Ali Cavanaugh had 11 galleries representing her work
throughout the U.S. and even overseas. It was all she could do to
paint fast enough to supply these galleries with new work. What a
great problem to have! But it was still a problem.


Then she started asking for it to be returned to her. She was
rethinking her art and what her business model looked like.


She worked hard to get to that point, the way things were going
no longer worked well for her. She decided to take control and be
very deliberate about her next moves.


This episode is an encore of the inspiration-packed interview I
did with Ali Cavanaugh back in 2019 in episode 33. I’ll be
sharing a new interview with Ali next week, but I thought it
would be fun to be reminded of where she was 5 years ago when we
first talked. In this interview, Ali and I discuss how she made a
deliberate decision to take control of her art career. She left
10 of her galleries and the stress caused by having to supply so
many venues.


 


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 To read more, see images, find resources mentioned, and
leave a comment, visit artbizsuccess.com/ali-cavanaugh-encore


️ Connect with Ali and see more of her art: AliCavanaugh.com


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