Make Art Make Money: Lessons From Jim Henson on Fueling Your Creative Career
✍ Scribed by Stevens, Elizabeth Hyde
- Book ID
- 108375170
- Publisher
- Lake Union Publishing
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 341 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1171719914
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
In our culture, artistic genius and poverty seem inevitably linked, but does it have to be that way? Jim Henson didnt think so.
An iconic creator and savvy businessman, Henson is a model for artists everywhere: without sacrificing his creative vision, Henson built an empire of lovable Muppets that continues to educate and inspireand a business that was worth $150 million at the time of his death. How did he ever pull it off? And how can other creators follow in his path?
In Make Art Make Money: Lessons from Jim Henson on Fueling Your Creative Career, journalist and educator Elizabeth Hyde Stevens presents ten principles of Hensons art and business practices that will inspire artists everywhere. Part manifesto, part history, part cultural criticism, part self-help, Make Art Make Money is a new kind of business book for creative professionals: a guide for creating and succeeding thanks to lessons from the Muppet Master himself.
This book was initially released in episodes as a Kindle Serial. All episodes are now available for immediate download as a complete book.
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About the Author
Elizabeth Hyde Stevens created the Muppets, Mickey, and Money research course at Boston University. Her analysis of Jim Hensons career has appeared online at The Awl, The Millions, Electric Literature, and Rolling Stone. In 2011, her essay Weekend at Kermies was viewed over 160,000 times. Called a long, brilliant thinkpiece" on Twitter, it was praised by Internet curators Brain Pickings, Mother Jones, Longreads, Longform, Wired, IMDB, IFC, Readers Digest, and Kurt Loder. Stevens attended public school in North Andover, Massachusetts, and went on to study art semiotics at Brown University and creative writing at the Brooklyn College MFA program. She is a member of the Brooklyn writers collective The Kilgore Trout Home for Wayward Writers and teaches fiction at Gotham Writers Workshop. Her writing has earned the Himan Brown Award and the Somerville Arts Council Fellowship for Literature. Everything she knows about business she learned from watching Sesame Street.
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