Our success by the numbers 2024 includes Small Joys paintings at ArtPrize, children’s crafts and big gains in hiring youth.
Small Joys, big impact in 2024

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Our success by the numbers 2024 includes Small Joys paintings at ArtPrize, children’s crafts and big gains in hiring youth.
Develop your storytelling skills and create a sense of urgency to buy. Those techniques will build artists’ success at art fairs.
Every summer, we teach productivity tools and techniques to young artists – and sometimes they teach those skills as well. We ask them their best productivity hacks in 2023 and heard some excellent ideas. Read these short productivity tips from our artists and summer workers – and please, add your own in a comment. “Start at an early time. Early …
Our success is measured in youth growth and coloring pages as well as creative work for Detroit emerging artists. Read on.
Mint Artists Guild is blooming with growth, and has broken records this year. Read more in our yearend By the numbers report.
Mint Artists Guild’s Summer Jobs brought in five Mint interns – who are known as Minterns – from the Wolverine Pathways program at the University of Michigan and the Urban Alliance. Us Minterns have dug into an array of creative work developing social media campaigns, writing blog posts, organizing art supplies, planning for the Concert of Colors Youth Art Fair, …
With your internship about to end, you must work harder than ever – and build your portfolio and connections.
Learn about Mint’s growth and success in 2021 in this success by the numbers report.
Follow our advice to become a better mentor.
Mint Artists Guild is going to the art fairs again this year – starting with Palmer Park Art Fair this weekend. We will set up at the Belle Isle Art Fair in early August, the Funky Ferndale Art Fair in September and some pop up art events in between. We spend a lot of timing getting ready for these fairs, …