About Caroll Michels
Caroll Michels has served as a career coach and artist advocate since 1978. The author of the classic handbook How to Survive & Prosper as an Artist. Selling Yourself without Selling Your Soul (Henry Holt & Company, New York), which is now in its 5th edition, she has helped thousands of beginning, mid-career and established fine artists launch and sustain their careers — with art marketing, art business, and career advice.
Michels served as chairperson of the Fine Arts Advisory Board of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. She was on the faculty of the New School for Social Research, and she conducts career management workshops throughout the U.S.A. and in Canada.
Her artwork has been exhibited in museums in the United States and abroad, including the Georges Pompidou Museum, Paris; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Institute for Contemporary Art, The Clocktower, New York City. Michels has received numerous grants, including those awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts; the NY State Council for the Arts; the NY Council for the Humanities; and the International Fund for the Promotion of Culture/UNESCO. She was a fellow at the Alden B. Dow Creativity Center in Midland, Michigan.
She lived in Manhattan for more than 25 years. She is now based in Sarasota, Florida.
