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Beth Pickens is a Los Angeles-based consultant for artists and arts organizations. She holds a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology and has dedicated her career to helping artists build sustainable creative practices and navigate the professional art world.
Known for: Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles
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Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles
A practical and compassionate guide for artists navigating the emotional, financial, and logistical challenges of sustaining a creative life. Beth Pickens offers advice on overcoming self-doubt, managing time and money, and maintaining artistic motivation in a world that often undervalues creative work.
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Defining the Artist’s Identity
The first step in sustaining your creative life is claiming without hesitation that you are an artist. Too many people wait for someone else—a critic, a grant panel, a gallery—to grant them this identity. But your validity doesn’t depend on external validation. If you make art, you’re an artist. Tha...
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Understanding Creative Blocks
Every artist encounters creative paralysis—the blank-page terror, the fatigue, the sense that inspiration has run dry. In my years counseling artists, I’ve learned that creative blocks rarely come from a lack of imagination. They come from fear, perfectionism, and the complex pressures of living a c...
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About Beth Pickens
Beth Pickens is a Los Angeles-based consultant for artists and arts organizations. She holds a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology and has dedicated her career to helping artists build sustainable creative practices and navigate the professional art world.
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