How Teaching Can Benefit Your Art Career with Sonya Sklaroff

In this episode of The Artist Business Plan we sit down with artist and art professor Sonya Sklaroff who leads an amazing masterclass on why a few certain skills you learn in school can really benefit your art career. Public speaking, writing, professionalism, and flexibility are some of the topics we cover, and you can learn a lot from teaching others as well!

"Think outside the box.. what box? In art their is no box.” - Sonya Sklaroff

Guest: Sonya Sklaroff has been a professional artist in New York City for 30 years. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from Parsons School of Design where she is currently an associate professor. She has exhibited her work in galleries internationally and her paintings can be seen in public, corporate, and museum collections worldwide. Since March of 2020, Sonya has been working on a series of Pandemic Paintings. These works incorporate aspects of her daily life using her imagination, her dreams, elements of the city, and expressive color to create a profound and personal new body of work.

Her new limited edition artist book, “Pandemic Paintings: Sonya Sklaroff” has just been published, with a preface by the celebrated chef, Rachael Ray.

www.sonyasklaroff.com/books

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Hosted and Executive Produced by James Miille and Alexander Mitow

Executive Producer/Producer : Kelsey Susino

Written by: Kelsey Susino, Alexander Mitow, and James Miille

Audio Edited by: Frederico Solar Fernandez