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# A Workshop to Help Artists Sell Their Work
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/selling-your-art-soho20-feminist-art-project/
- Published: 2018-06-19T22:30:12.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:25:00.000Z
- Description: An artist, gallerist, and author lead a workshop at SOHO20 Gallery on selling your work.
- Author: Elisa Wouk Almino
- Tags: Art, Events, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-18 14:37 (2018)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2018/06/amanda-ross-ho-pants.jpg)

Amanda Ross-Ho, “Untitled Vestments (HAVE NOT)” (2016), in the Mitchell-Innes & Nash booth at Frieze New York 2017 (photo Benjamin Sutton/Hyperallergic)

Most parents aren’t too happy with the idea of their children becoming artists. The career path is almost invariably associated with no money and starvation — unless, that is, you’re one of the few selling your art for millions. But there are in fact several artists out there making a decent living by selling their art, whether out of their studios or through galleries. This process might seem mystifying or inaccessible to some, which is why the [Feminist Art Project (TFAP) NYC](http://feministartproject.rutgers.edu/home/?ref=hyperallergic.com) and [SOHO20 Gallery are organizing a workshop](http://soho20gallery.com/getting-basic-selling-your-art/?ref=hyperallergic.com) dedicated exclusively to the topic of “Selling Your Art” on Wednesday, June 20.

“Selling Your Art” is the sixth installment in SOHO20’s *Getting Basic* series, which aims “to help women artists and artists of marginalized gender identities navigate the practical side of their studio practice.” Past workshops include “[How to Talk to the Press](http://soho20gallery.com/getting-basic-how-to-talk-to-the-press/?ref=hyperallergic.com)” and “[How to Write an Artist’s Statement,](http://soho20gallery.com/getting-basic-how-to-write-an-artists-statement/?ref=hyperallergic.com)” and this week participants will “speak candidly about selling art and the etiquette that surrounds it.”

A number of the workshop’s speakers have worn many hats in the art world, and therefore have some robust advice to give. You’ll hear from Jackie Battenfield, a former gallery director and author of [*The Artist’s Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love*](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002F0828K/?tag=hyperallergic-20&ref=hyperallergic.com)(2009), which offers tips to artists on how to promote their work, manage finances, and strengthen their portfolios. You’ll also get the perspective of a gallery owner and art dealer, Kat Griefen, and a visual artist, Dana James, who can now boast that she is “painting full time.” (James has also had gallery experience, having founded Elgin Gallery in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.) The conversation will be moderated by visual artist Jenn Dierdorf, former Executive Director of SOHO20 Gallery and a current coordinator for the Feminist Art Project.

**When:** Wednesday, June 20, 7–9pm  
**Where:** SOHO20 Gallery (56 Bogart Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn)

*More info at* [*SOHO20 Gallery*](http://soho20gallery.com/getting-basic-selling-your-art/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*