Setting Up an Art Business for Scale – Molly Dilworth - Podcast – Clark Hulings Fund

Despite our playful double entendre, the business of securing commissions requires taking proposals and contracts seriously. Large-scale artist Molly Dilworth explains the challenges of both producing such works and operating the professional side of the business for scale. Molly’s geometrically inspired site-specific installations across the United States highlight invisible structures and hidden motivations. Her insights on a range of topics from proposals to contracts are crucial:

Creating Large-Scale Works

* Making big paintings to be seen by Google Earth

* Special challenges of large-scale work

* Dealing with outdoor work and site control (e.g. timing, weather, and location)

* Technology and remote art creation [see also a previous broadcast]

* Using under-appreciated spaces, everyday spaces, accessible spaces

Operating the Business for Scale

* RFPs, proposals, and the business of finding commissions

* Contracts and when you get paid

* Ensuring clients pay vs. getting burned

* Contingencies and budgeting for materials, mishaps, and take-home pay

* Getting a lawyer

* Responsibility for maintenance and limits of liability

* Contracts as a conversation

* Dealing with damage and insuring the work

Lastly

* Molly Dilworth is currently a fellow in the first year of the Tulsa Artist Fellowship and. on April 23rd, will unveil her sculptural commission for a new Denver Light Rail station at 40th and Airport.

* For more information on Molly, visit mollydilworth.com

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