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Can selling your art feel natural or does it always come with a performance?

In this episode of The Professional Artist Podcast, interdisciplinary artist Glory Day McSharry is featured by the Professional Artist Association (https://professionalartist.com/join), the world’s fastest-growing global community for committed fine artists.

Glory Day is based in South Carolina and has built a thriving art business across three income streams: galleries, national art festivals, and commissions.

Each one feeds the others in ways that aren’t immediately obvious from the outside.

Rather than following a fixed formula, she has learned to spot opportunities and clear whatever is in the way of taking them, turning that instinct into a sustainable practice.

In this conversation, Glory Day breaks down how to build multiple income streams from a single art practice, where to find buyers beyond traditional galleries, and how to sell your work without feeling like a salesperson.

“Sales is a language that you learn because it has to do with helping someone give you the means to continue your practice, which happens to be money.”

—Glory Day McSharry

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

01:38 Fancy Pantry: Personal Narrative in the Paintings

04:04 Three Income Streams

05:57 Breaking Down the Numbers

07:34 Working in Series and Studio Output

09:11 Green Puddles: Chaos, Interior Space, and Home Renovation

11:06 The California Festival Failure

13:28 What It Takes to Show Up Well at Festivals

14:48 Selling Without Performing: The Philosophy Behind the Work

19:27 Bloodlines - Monumentalizing Female Labor

21:20 Final Advice

Connect with Glory Day

Website: https://www.glorydayloflin.com/aboutme

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/glorydaystudio/

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Can you build a successful art career without letting success change the art you make?

In this episode of The Professional Artist Podcast, painter Loribelle Spirovski is featured by the Professional Artist Association (https://professionalartist.com/join), the world’s fastest-growing global community for committed fine artists.

Loribelle is a Filipino-Australian figurative painter whose psychologically charged portraits have been exhibited internationally.

She has earned multiple selections for Australia’s prestigious Archibald Prize, including the 2025 People’s Choice Award.

Along the way, she learned that the job side of an art career can compromise the integrity of the work itself.

In this episode, Loribelle shares why trying to make the “right” art can hold you back, how to start earning from your art before a gallery represents you, and why working harder can eventually work against you.

“I was trying to please these imagined judges instead of being true to what I actually wanted to paint..”

—Loribelle Spirovski

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

01:38 Lux Aeterna: Memory, Trauma, and the Body

05:21 Growing Up Between Cultures

08:14 The MFA Decision

11:32 Getting Into Residencies Without a Strong CV Yet

14:48 How Curators Actually Find Artists

17:03 Pricing Work When You’re Still Building Confidence

19:44 Memento Mori: When the Work Shifts Direction

22:17 Final Advice

Connect with Loribelle

Website: https://loribellespirovski.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/loribellespirovski

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How does an artist actually get their work into a museum?

In this episode of The Professional Artist Podcast, painter Elizabeth Barlow is featured by the Professional Artist Association (https://professionalartist.com/join), the world's fastest-growing global community for committed fine artists.

Based in California, Elizabeth has built a career that has taken her work into museums, hospitals, churches, corporate collections, and the San Francisco Opera.

Along the way, she has learned that museum opportunities often begin long before an artist ever asks a curator to consider their work.

In this episode, Elizabeth shares how artists can build genuine relationships with museums and curators, what to do when you don't already have a connection inside an institution, and why supporting museums can be an investment in your own career.

She also explores a less obvious route into museum collections and why some opportunities need to be created rather than waited for.

“I view it as an investment in my art to get to know people, to support them and to support the museum.”

—Elizabeth Barlow

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

01:38 Empress - From Portraits in Absentia to Flower Portraits

05:13 Getting Into Museum Collections - The Long Game of Showing Up

08:28 The San Francisco Opera Donation - A Gift That Led to a Commission

09:47 The Phoenix Rose - What Survived the Fire

12:20 When Donating Work Makes Strategic Sense

13:52 Approaching Institutions Cold

15:18 Transfiguration - The Church Commission

18:17 Final Advice

Connect with Elizabeth

Website: https://www.elizabethbarlowart.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elizabethbarlowartist/

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