By undervaluing our own work, we participate in impoverishing not only ourselves, but also the greater community of artists by making it unsustainable for those who can't afford to work for free.

If we believe in the creative economy and want for art to be an economically viable profession, then we need to change the social expectations that artists give their work away for free.

A model that requires artists to work for free is fatal to a sustainable arts economy.

It'll be our own insistence on our own worth that will create more opportunity, not less

We demand payment for making the world more interesting.

We demand payment for making the world more interesting.

It'll be our own insistence on our own worth that will create more opportunity, not less

A model that requires artists to work for free is fatal to a sustainable arts economy.

By undervaluing our own work, we participate in impoverishing not only ourselves, but also the greater community of artists by making it unsustainable for those who can't afford to work for free.

If we believe in the creative economy and want for art to be an economically viable profession, then we need to change the social expectations that artists give their work away for free.

Can we agree that not all exposure is good exposure?

Today's free work will serve as free advertising for some hypothetical person will pay you for at some point in the future.

In a digital age that has made it harder than ever for creatives to make a living, we are so often asked to work for free.

I have a mother whose motto is 'tell them you can do it and learn it by Tuesday.'

One nice thing about failure is when you go through it at the end you can sort of take stock and say "OK, that was a failure. And it wasn't that bad."

Purpose is the new bottom line.