Artist and Author of a book on Public Art Commissions discusses her detailed methodology for winning and executing commissions, and how she makes a living making art.

World renowned photographer and teacher shares his ingredients for a successful art career and talks about the importance of building authentic relationships.

With a meteoric career, the artist, potter, singer and urban renewal visionary discusses his humble beginnings and his relationships to institutions and alternative spaces.

Prolific, civilly involved sculptor Bob Emser shares his experience in the public commission market, discussing his intuitive growth as a business-minded artist, and how to approach a professional career like a work of art.

Artist, critic, curator and educator Michelle Grabner talks about balancing a regional focus with an international interest, and how she successfully integrated family life with her renowned art career.

A gifted painter and highly opinionated commenter on art today discusses creating art within a century long overview and the art world politics surrounding what has and has not served him well.

From graffiti artist to internationally museum-exhibited artist, Rolon’s conversation covers integrating a contemporary aesthetic with an art historical language, the artist’s experience at the Venice Biennale, and making work that people will talk about.

Renowned painter, Mark Kostabi talks about his path to becoming one of the world’s most prolific and talked about artists, and also outlines his six rules for making it in the art world.

The Chicago-based, multi-media artist talks about his work’s relationship to the history of Conceptual Art, and shares his personal experiences getting started in public art and making art that will get you noticed.

In this webinar, the Chicago-based painter Louise LeBourgeois shares the details of her rigorous studio practice, and discusses the ways in which narrowing her focus has had a profound impact upon her creative process.

An artist who took part in the very first Klein Artist Works course, René Romero Schuler talks about her career before and after the course, touching on topics like balancing several gallery relationships simultaneously, and arriving at the place where she can articulate her making process to a wider audience.

Sculptor Josh Garber has been welding and working with a variety of metals for the past twenty years. Represented by the Zolla Lieberman Gallery in Chicago, Garber has had a number of public art works commissions completed, including the Chicago Transit Authority commission of his work, “Hope and Renewal” which was installed in 2007 at the Kimball Brown line station.

Emmett Kerrigan is a prolific Chicago artist whose practice is equal parts painter and woodworker. In the course of this studio visit, Kerrigan covers a number of topics regarding his process, his work and how he established his relationship with Chicago art dealer and gallery owner, Linda Warren. Additionally, he reveals his work as a day trader and its relationship to his art.

In this webinar, artist Josh Harker offers his advice for having a successful Kickstarter project and gives his tips for what does and doesn't work for online fundraising. With his Kickstarter project, Harker joined the ranks of top Kickstarter campaigns and ultimately became the third largest funded arts campaign on the site to date.

Artist John Fraser discusses the long road from working in the commercial world to being a full-time artist, his transition from selling work in art fairs to gaining gallery representation, the value of MFA programs, and the logistics of working with galleries.

Renowned artist Jason Middlebrook discusses the trajectory of building his career in the New York art scene to live solely off his work, balancing commissions with sales in commercial galleries and art fairs, financial planning for an irregular income, and balancing career and family life.

Artist and writer Joanne Mattera relates her long journey to becoming a fully self-supporting artist, courting New York City galleries, and her blog addressing marketing in the art world.

Groundbreaking computational artist Jason Salavon discusses innovating new media while sustaining a lineage from art history. In this studio visit, Salavon gives advice on simultaneously developing creative and business aspects of a career and relates his thoughts on grad school, building relationships with galleries, selling artwork, and teaching in a university.

In this studio visit, painter Keer Tanchak talks about engaging with art history, the evolution of her work and material processes, fostering relationships with galleries, using resources like the bimonthly publication New American Paintings, and the day-to-day struggle of growing a career.

Sculptor Neil Goodman works with metal to create abstract forms linked to a modernist lineage and evocative of the Midwestern industrial landscape. Goodman invites Klein Artist Works into his home and studio to discuss materials and techniques as well as the many facets of a successful career: forming good work habits, maintaining an audience, budgeting for large projects, working with dealers, and his long teaching career.

Pioneering experimental video artist Lincoln Schatz discusses the evolution of his practice from sculpture to new media and the importance of allowing his practice to change to find a unique voice. He addresses working both inside and at the edges of the art world, the ability to monetize his work, and the importance of professionalizing your practice.

Internationally renowned artist Laura Letinsky invites Klein Artist Works into her studio to discuss her engagement with the still life genre and her choice of photography as a medium to create conceptual pictures, as well as her teaching career, balancing motherhood with being an artist, and gender inequity in the art world.