Arts & Upstarts: Marina Guglielmi, Maker Technical Sculpture Services & Box 47 Sculpture Studio

Artist/Business Owner: Marina Guglielmi with partners Andy Stretch and Aleks Bozovic

This is a special post of Arts & Upstarts. I know it's wrong to have favourites but Marina Guglielmi is perhaps just that. We met through the first instalment of my Don't Get Good at What You Don't Want to Be Doing business course in the spring of 2010 and I knew right away that she would just kick it. Here is an interview with an unbelievably talented artist and awesome business owner whose go get attitude just makes me smile every time I think of her.

MARINA GUGLIELMI
Sculptor

COMPANIES:
Maker Technical Sculpture Services
Providing specialized skills for the production, maintenance and restoration of sculptural work.

Box 47 Sculpture Studio
A unique co-sharing 3D studio.
Both started: 2011

Tell us a little bit about yourself.

I am a practicing sculptor, principal of Maker Technical Sculpture Services and the studio manager of Box 47 Sculpture Studio. I studied fine art at The Art Centre in Toronto, with a focus on sculpture under the direction of Canadian sculptor Richard McNeil. I currently run my business, co-sharing studio, personal artistic practice and reside in Toronto.

Chase Jarvis and Ramit Sethi: Best Business Advice for Creatives

Peek-a-boo! Yeah, I know, "Where the hell has this woman been?" I've been away arting my life away, and now am back and just finished watching this vid that I stumbled upon. It's a discussion about business advice for creatives between photographer Chase Jarvis and entrepreneur Ramit Sethi. And boy do they ever get chit-chatty in a bromance kind of way, but that doesn't take away from the good content. If you've got 90 minutes to spare, it makes for a good chores-about-the-studio soundtrack. And I thought it deserved a repost. Enjoy!

Press Release Grader

Need help with a promotion campaign you're putting together? Here is a useful tool that has been recently released by the wonderful folks at HubSpot. Their Press Release Grader can help you tighten up your written materials with a simple evaluation tool that offers suggestions to improve your press release. I've used their Website Grader in the past and I found it to also be pretty fabulous.

Words to Live By

"It's risky," said Experience. 

"It's pointless," Reason chimed in.

"Give it a try," the Heart whispered. 

Gabrielle Manglou & the Top 10 Links of the Month

ARTIST: Gabrielle Manglou, Voler dans les plumes, mixed-media digital print 

THIS MONTH: How to really set yourself apart from the rest; corporate art clients; an introduction to crowdfunding; how not to get yourself reviewed; and, more....