Callie Beller Diesel Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 Hopefully this is the right place to post this. A friend of mine posted this to Facebook, and I thought it might be of interest to many. Specifically the manifesto, and the fee calculator. ....and Go! http://wageforwork.com/about/1/womanifesto http://wageforwork.com/certification/2/fee-calculator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Campbell Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 Oh my ... This sounds like a hundred artist's rants I've heard over the years but someone wrote it all down and put it online. Writing it in bright colors, making it aggressive sounding and semi-threatening is a new twist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeU Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 Don't see how the world could get much more interesting, art or no art. W.A.G.E. loses me with the neon green. Raises fundamental issues about the economic inequities here and globally...heavy stuff, but I have no illusion that there is really much to be done to change things when we-the-people "allow" people to be tortured, preventably diseased, terrorized, starved, and murdered over politics and religion, all over the globe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GEP Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 I'm all in favor of artists not working on speculation, and for not accepting "promises of exposure" as payment. But I think these issues are a matter of common sense and basic business skills, not something that requires a manifesto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callie Beller Diesel Posted October 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 I agree that as an organization, their wording and bad acronym lacks a certain level of credibility. And I won't be checking to see if the organizations I work for are certified by these guys any time soon. However. I think it's interesting they've listed a baseline payment structure, more from the vantage point of myself being an emerging artist. There are a lot of sources out there that will tell you 1,001 ways to go about pricing your work, but the topic of what to get paid for the other stuff seems to be spoken about less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GEP Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 Diesel, Here's a recent thread discussing the most recent CERF survey of career craft artists and their incomes. I think CERF does the most comprehensive data collecting on the subject: http://community.ceramicartsdaily.org/topic/5718-artist-incomes-hours-worked-etc-new-data-from-cerf/?hl=cerf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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