How artists can stop suffering, start selling

FORT COLLINS — Artists don’t need to suffer for their art. They just need a good business plan.

At a Fort Collins Startup Week panel, artist Amelia Caruso laid out a road map of how to turn an art practice into an art business.

• Determine what kind of artist you are. Caruso said it’s important to make a decision, before even forming the business, of whether you’ll be an artist full-time or part-time, and to start calling yourself “an artist,” instead of diminishing what you do by saying “oh, I paint some.”…