Overall Resource

• How to Support Artists' Thriving at Scale - Fractured Atlas Opportunity Scan done by Helicon Collaborative

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Artist Compensation Framework

• IFACCA | Report: Researching Artists’ Working Lives - An introduction to understanding research around paying artists

• Exhibition Payment Guide - Guidelines for paying artists for exhibitions in nonprofit arts spaces.

• How the National Endowment for the Arts Funds the Arts - A comprehensive overview of government arts funding.

• W.A.G.E. - Focused on regulating the payment of artist fees and establishing sustainable labor relationships between artists and the institutions.

  • The Fee Request Generator calculates artist fees according to the operating expenses of nonprofits as reported on their annual Form 990 tax filings.

  • The Skills Calculator determines the fair market value of skills used by workers across the industry, drawing on the federal Standard Occupational Classification system and regional salary data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

• Paying the Artist – Policy by the Arts Council of Ireland to ensure the fair and equitable remuneration and contracting of artists

• Teaching Artists Guild Pay Rate Calculator – determine a living minimum wage for teaching artists in your community.

 

Transparency

• Sternberg Press | Are You Working Too Much? Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art - Collection of academic essays regarding the structures that contribute to low wages for artists.

• Why Are Artists Poor? The Exceptional Economy of the Arts - Understanding the "economy of the arts" as atypical.

• Americans for the Arts | Report: Americans Support Increases in Government Arts Funding - Facts and figures regarding public opinion of arts funding.

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Budgeting

• Exhibition Payment Guide – created by a-n (UK’s largest membership organization for professional visual artists) these guidelines help all looking to paying artists for exhibitions in nonprofit arts spaces.

• ArtUp: 10-Step Budgeting Process for Nonprofit Organizations - The success and usefulness of your nonprofit budget largely depends on the process used to create it. You will take away a proven 10-step budget process that will get everyone involved and ensure that your budget reflects your organization’s mission, strategic plan, and programmatic priorities

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Responding to Individual Differences

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