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Yancey Strickler

Metalabel Director

How do I promote my art?

How do I promote my art?

Yesterday morning we woke up to an email from a creator we’d supported on Metalabel: Lavisha Jain, who recently released a series of digital marks and prints. Their email read: This email is a form of thanking you for buying my art pieces. This keeps me motivated to create

New Creative Era Episode 03: Why collaboration should feel like a conspiracy

New Creative Era Episode 03: Why collaboration should feel like a conspiracy

Subscribe to New Creative Era on Apple, Spotify, RSS, or listen on the web. This week in New Creative Era, Josh and Yancey dive into the topic of collaboration. What have we learned about collaboration? How have we become part of collaborative projects? What went well? What didn’t? Why

Stars in the sky remind us of death (Editor's Picks — Feb 26, 2025)

Stars in the sky remind us of death (Editor's Picks — Feb 26, 2025)

(Editor's Picks — Feb 26, 2025)

Tips for pricing your release

Tips for pricing your release

When we control how we want our work to circulate, it also means we get to control how we assign value to it. Personal impact, reach and scale, audience, and price are all different tools to assign and measure multi-dimensional value. Price is a particularly sticky area because how

No permission needed

No permission needed

The long game is the real game

New Creative Era Episode 02: How to tell the story of your work

New Creative Era Episode 02: How to tell the story of your work

A conversation about how to have a conversation about what you creatively do

Be the timeline where you follow through (Editor's Picks — Feb 19, 2025)

Be the timeline where you follow through (Editor's Picks — Feb 19, 2025)

(Editor's Picks — Feb 19, 2025)