The Thriving Artist: Saving and Investing for Performers, Artists, and the Stage Film Industries [Hardcover]

The old clich? about the starving artist may have a basis in reality, but it isnt set in stone! The Thriving Artist provides valuable advice for the performing artist, whether youre an actor, dancer, lighting guru, costumer, or stagehand, on investing, saving, and building a diversified and stable financial portfolio. Written specifically for artists who have fluctuating, uncertain, and sometimes limited streams of income, this book promotes an understanding of finances and the investment world for the artist by offering clear, basic explanations of how finances work and instruction on how to participate in them as an investor. It also provides unique strategies for integrating financial awareness and planning into your life as an artist, and how that can help to provide a better sense of financial security. With The Thriving Artist, author David Maurice Sharp guides you with unflappable good humor through the tricky financial waters that come with following your passion.

List of Tables

Foreward by Edith Meeks

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Having Choices

2. Six Basic Financial Habits

3. A Brief Discussion of Risk

4. The Raw Fundamentals

5. Tax Talk

6. All About Cash

7. Banks & Credit Unions

8. Your Cash Stash

9. First Intermission

10. The Basics of Bonds: Bonding

11. US Treasury Bonds: Uncle Sam Wants You

12. Municipal Bonds: Keeping It Local

13. Corporate Bonds: Gems and Junk

14. Second Intermission

15. The Basics of Stock: Stocking Up