The Value of Your Creative Work

I have a mother whose motto is 'tell them you can do it and learn it by Tuesday.'

In a digital age that has made it harder than ever for creatives to make a living, we are so often asked to work for free.

Today's free work will serve as free advertising for some hypothetical person will pay you for at some point in the future.

Can we agree that not all exposure is good exposure?

If we believe in the creative economy and want for art to be an economically viable profession, then we need to change the social expectations that artists give their work away for free.

By undervaluing our own work, we participate in impoverishing not only ourselves, but also the greater community of artists by making it unsustainable for those who can't afford to work for free.

A model that requires artists to work for free is fatal to a sustainable arts economy.

It'll be our own insistence on our own worth that will create more opportunity, not less

We demand payment for making the world more interesting.