PROGRAM: The Business of being an Artist with Richard May

Richard will touch on: Hobby, Side Gig, or Making a Living off of your Art The Business License, pricing your work, contracts, Copyrights Self-Promotion & Speaking about Your work Marketing and Public Relations Prints, Reproductions & Pricing your work Community Involvement/Collaboration, Competitive Exhibitions Richard Allen May III is an educator, artist, writer, and scholar based in Southern California’s Inland Empire. As an entrepreneur, he is the founder of Richard May Art Education Services. He teaches Writing courses at several southern California colleges; branching into art history, and public speaking. May has exhibited his art at galleries in Temecula - Redlands - Riverside - San Bernardino - Brea –Ontario. May served as an editor and wrote the foreword to the book, AFRICOBRA: Experimental Art Toward a School of Thought (2020, Duke University Press) authored by founding member Wadsworth A. Jarrell. He presented his research on the AFRICOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists) Art Movement at the New Critical Perspectives on African American Art History conference at the David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland.

• Learn more about Richard Allen May III here. Read his published art exhibition reviews here: Artillery Magazine.
• Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 7-9 pm. Public welcome