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How to Harness Your Passion and Turn a Hobby Into a Business

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When you find a hobby you love, it’s easy to get sucked in. Instead of spending your downtime on a hobby, monetizing your passion lets you work while you play. Follow these tips from Sante Fe Art Studio to convert your hobby into a small business and keep doing what you love.

Try Your Hobby as a Side Hustle

As much as you might love your hobby, doing a dry run as a side hustle is a smart first step. Especially for hobbies like crafting, material costs, and your hourly investment can be hard to pin down. Taking on some smaller projects will show whether scaling up is possible (and enjoyable).

Once you determine if your hobby is profitable, you’ll need to run some calculations. Consider your profit margins, tax responsibilities (self-employed professionals owe quarterly taxes), and up-front costs. If the math checks out, it’s full speed ahead.

Self-Study for Business Gains

Shifting from hobby to business may feel natural, but it’s wise to read up on actual business before diving in. Because startups vary so widely, it’s unlikely that you’ll find the exact instruction you need from a single source.

The solution? Educate yourself, read books about business, chat with other small business owners, network extensively, and keep trying new things. Plenty of small businesses fail, but as the US Chamber of Commerce points out, passion, tenacity, and flexibility are all crucial traits for success in entrepreneurship. Continue reading “How to Harness Your Passion and Turn a Hobby Into a Business”

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SITE Santa Fe: Rebecca Ward

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Rebecca Ward: distance to venus

SITE Santa Fe is thrilled to present Rebecca Ward: distance to venus, a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist, Rebecca Ward. Employing banded, sewn, and deconstructed canvases, Ward’s work explores the line between painting and sculpture. Her work emphasizes materiality and process, as she unravels and reassembles canvas to expose underlying stretcher bars, revealing the multidimensional physical structure of the painting itself.

distance to venus features a selection of recent works (2021-2022) tracing the transformative phases of pregnancy and childbirth through the language of geometry, materiality and abstraction. Expanding upon her previous vernacular of hard angles and straight lines, Ward’s new paintings employ curves which evoke an idealized female form. As a queer person experiencing motherhood, the artist implies a separation from the archetype of the female goddess, positioning a changing body in relationship to landscape, mathematics, and celestial phenomena.

Venus, at its nearest distance to Earth, is some 38 million miles away. Navigating her 38th rotation around the sun, Ward documents this rite of passage by transcribing the immeasurable into abstract minimalist forms. The exhibition coincides with the release of a monograph entitled before & after, which includes a conversation with curator Brandee Caoba.

Rebecca Ward (b. 1984, Waco, TX) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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Axle Contemporary’s E Pluribus Unum: Northern New Mexico

Axle Contemporary’s E Pluribus Unum project coming to Northern New Mexico

August 25- October 11, 2022
visit axleart.com for locations and hours

 

Since 2012, Santa Fe’s mobile artspace has been traveling across the state of New Mexico working on a statewide photographic portrait project, E Pluribus Unum. The mobile gallery is outfitted as a mobile black and white photography studio. Visitors bring an object of personal significance and sit for a portrait, holding their special object.

Prints are made immediately using Axle’s solar-powered printer. One copy is given to the participant, another is pasted onto the exterior of the Axle mobile artspace. Over the course of each iteration of the project the exhibition grows to include many hundreds or thousands of portraits. At the close of each project, a book of the portraits and accompanying writing is published and the portraits are exhibited in local museums and artspaces.

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Artist Spotlight with Willy Bo Richardson

Interview from the Nüart Gallery Editorial

Q: What does a typical day in the studio look like for you?

A: One of Pablo Picasso’s best known quotes is, “Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” I’d like to unpack the word “work” throughout this interview.

I start by collecting information. Some might call it “piddling around”. For example I’ll ask the question, “what is a white wall?” Then I’ll spend the next week testing different hues of white paint and explore lighting on different walls. As I piddle, I  have music playing in the background, and when a good song comes on, I save it in a playlist. This new playlist will become part of the foundation for a new painting series.

This first chapter in my studio practice also includes looking, and playing with ideas around possible supports, materials and scale. I think about new methods and experiments I want to take part in. Inspiration comes in the form of a title and color parameters for the new series.

The next chapter may be what some call “work”. I am no longer gathering information, but processing. I stretch and prime, lay down colored grounds, and begin working with the first value studies. I have a sense of where I want to go, and which colors I will use, but I don’t know how it will unfold.

The final chapter is the most exciting. When the glaze layers are really taking shape, I work in a state of awe and gratitude. I lose track of time, I lose track of myself. Continue reading “Artist Spotlight with Willy Bo Richardson”

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Santa Fe Studio Tour – Membership

Santa Fe Studio Tour (SFST), is excited to announce they are expanding their opportunities for artists and art lovers by becoming a member!

Artists from all different backgrounds are welcome. The SFST goal is to create a year-round sense of community and expand visibility for member artists through advertising, social media, and events beyond the annual Santa Fe Studio Tour.  

COST OF MEMBERSHIP:   ARTIST MEMBERS  $50  +  NON-ARTIST MEMBERS $35

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An interactive dinner NFTs

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An interactive dinner event prepared by Marc Rasic, followed by a guided discussion about NFTs and their use for physical and digital art.

Sat, Jun 18, 2022, 6:00 PM 

Studio Bianco
821 Canyon Rd, No. 5
Santa Fe, NM 87501

There will be great food, drink and conversations, so please join us as we explore the potential for NFTs and art!!

The evening will start with an interactive dining installation prepared by Chef Marc Rasic. Then Charles Oppenheimer, Julian Thompson and Joshua Bingham will lead a guided discussion about the use of NFTs for digital and physical art. In addition, they will introduce the concept of a Non-Player Game (NPG), i.e. look into a living painting. And finally, there will be an auction for the NFT of the NPG!!

A special thanks to Studio Bianco for hosting this event.

For more information on the event please check out our June 18th @ Studio Bianco event website or the main Studio Bianco website.