{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Professional Artist Podcast: Art Business Transformations","title":"How to Sell Your Art Without Galleries (What Actually Works)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1538,"description":"Free 4-Day Challenge for artists: https://professionalartist.com/free\nJoin us live and online to make your next art show your best, design a paid workshop that's yours alone, or land your work in the right gallery. Register free.\n---\nWhat if the best person to sell your art isn’t a gallery?\nIn this episode of The Professional Artist Podcast, collaborative painters Signe and Genna Grushovenko are featured by the Professional Artist Association (https://professionalartist.com/join), the world's fastest-growing global community for committed fine artists.\nWorking as a husband-and-wife team, Signe and Genna transform anonymous vintage photographs into contemporary paintings collected and exhibited throughout the United States.\nAfter years of working with galleries and selling their work directly, Signe and Genna now focus on art fairs, giving them firsthand experience with different sales models and the economics behind each.\nIn this deep dive, they share why letting go of a revenue stream can sometimes strengthen your business, the real math behind gallery versus direct sales, and how reversing a decision they stood by for 20 years opened up an entirely new source of income.\n“Nobody, I think, will sell your work with the same passion that you do.”\n— Signe Grushovenko\nTimestamps:\n00:00 Introduction\n01:38 A Sense of Perspective\n05:47 Leaving Teaching and Going All In on Sales\n09:40 Why They Left the Gallery System\n13:12 Mapping Desire \n14:34 Selling Your Own Work Without Being Pushy\n16:41 Measuring Festival Success Over Time\n19:51 Adding Reproductions to the Business \n23:11 Streetlight Mafia \n23:59 Final thoughts\nConnect with Signe and Genna\nWebsite:  https://www.grushovenko.com/\nInstagram:  https://www.instagram.com/thegrushovenkos/\nLearn more about The Professional Artist Association:\nMentoring:\nApply to join 99 artists for unlimited 1:1 Coaching & Mentoring to grow your art income:\nhttps://professionalartist.com/apply\nMembership:\nJoin 1,000+ committed artists...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/1w06IKct0FZ59SGs6Y8H5DQOlgFvyRf7GbYr1lhEpu0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yYjgx/ZjQ3MjE4YjdhNDFi/OGE2ODg0NDY2ZDdi/ODI0MS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}