Year: 2025

Starting an artist collective is an empowering act that can both ground you as a group and propel you as individual artists. In this article, we’re going to cover what an artist collective is, what the benefits are, and how to go about setting one up.     Expert Advice on Starting an Artist Collective   What is an Artist Collective? An artist collective is a group of artists with shared intentions. The group is usually united by a similar aesthetic sensibility, or a mutual perspective or belief system. There is a historic pattern of solidarity with collectives. Over the centuries we have seen pioneering artists gather together to be a mouth piece in turbulent times, or to stand up against the structures of the art world. When we think about artist groups like the Impressionists, who formed an alliance as the Anonymous Co-operative Society of Artists after being rejected from the French academy exhibitions; I wonder, had they not come together, would they have become as well-renowned as individual artists? More recently, artist activists Guerilla Girls arguably make more of an impact as a group. When artists come together a powerful form of alchemy occurs, a new kind of …

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