NWACC tipped me off to this article from All Things Considered on National Public Radio...

It isn't easy to make money as an artist these days, but three crafty New Yorkers are managing to sell their work — and make a living — outside the traditional gallery system.

Nancy Smith, 57, is something of an artistic wheeler-dealer. She embroiders, paints, draws, makes collages and photographs her family. She also runs artloversnewyork.com, an advertiser-supported Web site about the New York City art scene, and she'll sometimes barter with artists, trading Web coverage for works of art that she later sells to help pay her bills.

Most recently, Smith is showing several of her watercolors and banners at Other Music, an independent record store in Manhattan's East Village.

Though she had never shown her work in a music store before, she says loves it: "I think it's much more fun than showing in a gallery. ... People come in and they're much more able to see my art as art than in an art gallery because you can understand: Here's music, here's graphics and this is art."

So far, two of Smith's banners at the record store show have been sold.

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Brian Converse said:

... What alternative venues are you using?

August 25, 2009