Make Art Make Money, Elizabeth Hyde Stevens
Make Art Make Money, Elizabeth Hyde Stevens
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Make Art Make Money
Lessons from Jim Henson on Fueling Your Creative Career

Author: Elizabeth Hyde Stevens

Narrator: Elizabeth Hyde Stevens

Unabridged: 10 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 04/22/2014

Synopsis

In our culture, artistic genius and poverty seem inevitably linked, but does it have to be that way? Jim Henson didn’t think so. An iconic creator and savvy businessman, Henson is a model for artists everywhere: without sacrificing his creative vision, Henson built an empire of lovable Muppets that continues to educate and inspire—and a business that was worth $150 million at the time of his death. How did he ever pull it off? And how can other creators follow in his path? In Make Art Make Money: Lessons from Jim Henson on Fueling Your Creative Career, journalist and educator Elizabeth Hyde Stevens presents ten principles of Henson’s art and business practices that will inspire artists everywhere. Part manifesto, part history, part cultural criticism, part self-help, Make Art Make Money is a new kind of business book for creative professionals: a guide for creating and succeeding thanks to lessons from the Muppet Master himself.

About Elizabeth Hyde Stevens

Elizabeth Hyde Stevens created the Muppets, Mickey, and Money research course at Boston University. Her analysis of Jim Henson’s career has appeared online at The Awl, The Millions, Electric Literature, and Rolling Stone. In 2011, her essay “Weekend at Kermie’s” was viewed over 160,000 times. Called “a long, brilliant thinkpiece" on Twitter, it was praised by Internet curators Brain Pickings, Mother Jones, Longreads, Longform, Wired, IMDB, IFC, Reader’s Digest, and Kurt Loder. Stevens attended public school in North Andover, Massachusetts, and went on to study art semiotics at Brown University and creative writing at the Brooklyn College MFA program. She is a member of the Brooklyn writers’ collective The Kilgore Trout Home for Wayward Writers and teaches fiction at Gotham Writers’ Workshop. Her writing has earned the Himan Brown Award and the Somerville Arts Council Fellowship for Literature. Everything she knows about business she learned from watching Sesame Street.

Reviews

Goodreads review by J.F.

Fascinating insight into Jim Henson - a man at the crux of creativity and wealth. A must read for author entrepreneurs who want to understand how copyright, licensing and ownership for the long term work. I'll be writing a detailed blog post about this in 2014.......more

Goodreads review by Amy

A great read for artists of all kinds. This book was a nice interpretation of Jim Hensen's life and career, including his attitude about money and the corporate environment, which also sometimes played out in his work (and entertained us). One of the most important lessons to be learned from this bo......more

Goodreads review by Katie

Ok. I think this book is well researched, and the author took a wide lens to the culture of Henson and the culture of his various studios. I definitely found myself looking up a lot of Muppet references that I didn't know. The author seems to have an obsession with "Dark Crystal," which I have yet t......more

Goodreads review by Fiona

Somebody else read this so I can gush about it to them please.......more

Goodreads review by Kathryn

I'm a big muppets fan, and consider myself to be both entrepreneurial and creative. So this book seemed right up my alley. The first third of the book was good, although it's written like an academic paper. Eventually the book becomes more of an analysis of Hensen's business and a comparison to othe......more

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