If you want to support an artist, me, for example, but don’t need or can’t afford any art, then consider this list of FREE to low-cost ways to support the artists in your life:
- Follow on social media
- Instagram
- Follow
- Comment on the posts
- Tag and hashtag (For example, @LauraLynneArt and #LauraLynneArt)
- Facebook
- Like the page
- Follow the page
- Like the posts
- Comment on the posts
- Post to the page
- Share the posts
- Tag photos of your art
- Instagram
- Comment on blogs.
- Favorite Etsy Listings
- Favorite Etsy shops
- Please share, share, share everywhere (with tags, links and credits please)
- Share on Pinterest
- Write a PR article and send it to your paper.
- Feature art on your blog with the artist’s permission, of course.
- Write a blog about art. (Let’s trade! Please contact me.)
- Tell your favorite interior designer about your favorite art.
- Tell your favorite gallery about your favorite art.
- Sign up for my email list to receive a newsletter.
- Write a grant.
- Pin business cards on a community boards.
- Exhibit and/or sell art at your high-traffic restaurant or business.
- Attend an art fair (free to minimal entry fee). View my schedule.
Do you know any other free ways to support the artist in your life? I’d love to read your comments.
(Of course, there are ways to support your artist without taking up more wall space… Want a beautiful painted calendar page printable each month? Sign up for a Laura Lynne Art membership here: www.patreon.com/lauralynneart. Depending on your level of membership, you will get exclusive members only content, discounts on art, yearly art packages, etc…)
About the Artist/Author: Laura Lynne is a mixed media hand cut paper artist and muralist living and working 40 miles west of Chicago in Aurora, IL. She uses her photographs, metallic paper, and painted papers to create boldly colored, whimsical artworks. To see more of or buy Laura Lynne’s original art, pet portraits, illustrations and jewelry, please visit www.lauralynneart.com.
