“The artworld Can feel like a closed shop. WE wanted to give the power back to artists”
CAROLL MICHELS is the author of How to Survive & Prosper as an Artist: Selling Yourself without Selling Your Soul
Caroll is a career coach and artist-advocate. She is the author of How to Survive and Prosper As An Artist: Selling Yourself Without Selling Your Soul, which is now in its 7th edition.
As an artist, she has participated in exhibitions in museums in the USA and Europe, including the Georges Pompidou Museum in Paris, Haus am Waldsee, Internationale Kunst in Berlin, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and in New York City the Institute for Contemporary Art, The Clocktower, and Exit Art.
Caroll has received numerous grants, including those awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts; the NY State Council for the Arts; the NY Council for the Humanities; and the International Fund for the Promotion of Culture/UNESCO. She was a fellow at the Alden B. Dow Creativity Center in Midland, Michigan.
Ranulph Redlin is a Multidisciplinary Artist and you should listen to everything he says
Ranulph Redlin (known as Red) is a multidisciplinary artist with a diverse background spanning visual art, photography, directing, performance, writing and (now) podcast hosting.
Ranulph Redlin’s artwork has been featured in exhibitions in cultural centres and galleries, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Resistance Gallery, Penthouse Studio, and the Rose Lipman Building in London; and the No Holes Barred Festival in Lisbon. His work is in private collections and in the collection of the Quilliam Foundation, London. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and in 2021 was awarded a Development Grant from the Arts Council England.
Ranulph has experienced first hand many of the challenges of learning to navigate the "art world" and is unabashed in sharing the lows and highs of his own personal journey.