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Artist $napshot: LA-based painter and illustrator

"The strain being felt from stagnant wages and crushing debt feels like it's reaching a fever pitch for most low-middle income Americans and artists especially."

Artist $napshot: LA-based textile artist
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Artist $napshot: LA-based textile artist

This full time artist-mom has a fluctuating income and made $14,000 last year.

Image of dollar bill, camera, paint and paintbrushes over an outline of California.
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Artist $napshot: L.A. and Berlin-based painter and photographer

How an artist splits his time between the U.S. and Europe while earning between $1,500 and $2,600 a month

Collaged image of a typewriter, dollar bill, and outline of California. Credit: Makeda Easter
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Artist $napshot: L.A.-based poet and content creator

In the next installment of the Artist Pay Project, an artist who left their job at a nonprofit theater to focus full time on art and content creation

B Munro Thompson is the founder of DIY Museum. They've dreamed of opening an arts space since middle school. Credit: Sergio V
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The young artist building their cooperative arts space in L.A.

What does it take to get an arts space off the ground? B Munro Thompson shares their vision for DIY Museum

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NatsHoney documentary: The veteran stripper and pole artist fighting for worker rights

NatsHoney began dancing in clubs in the early 2000s and is now part of a network of strippers and sex workers across California demanding power and visibility

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