Gigi Rosenberg interviewed by Gretchen Johnston

Successful artists don't work in isolation. They know that to thrive and adapt in good times as well as bad, collaboration is the key to a brilliant career. As one artist once told Ms. Rosenberg, "Success is a social activity." So, how do successful artists practice and use collaboration in their careers? To write her latest book, "The Artist's Guide to Grant Writing," Rosenberg interviewed dozens of flourishing artists from across the country. What she discovered is, though they come from a wide variety of disciplines, they all had similar tendencies or habits that helped them succeed, both as an artist and as an entrepreneur. The most striking similarity was the ability to collaborate with partners and/or in teams.

About Gigi Rosenberg: Gigi's book, "The Artist's Guide to Grant Writing," has been recently published by Watson-Guptill (a division of Random House). The book grew out of her acclaimed professional development workshops launched in Portland, Oregon and taught in Chicago, New York, and throughout the Pacific Northwest. Her work has been published by Seal Press, The Oregonian, Parenting, and Writer's Digest. She has performed at Seattle's On the Boards and her radio commentary "The Hanukkah Bush" was featured on Oregon Public Broadcasting. For more information, go to GigiRosenberg.com
Bio

With 20 years experience in writing, theater production and corporate communications, Gigi specializes in coaching business people and artist entrepreneurs. Clients have included Microsoft, Mercy Corps NW, and the University of Portland Center for Entrepreneurship.

As a memoirist, Gigi writes about motherhood, relationships, Jewish Italy, and the writing life. Her essay, "A Signora and a Stranger" appears in the Seal Press anthology "The Maternal is Political." Her dramatic monologs, radio commentary, and essays have appeared in Oregon Humanities Magazine, Parenting, Writer's Digest, The Oregonian, on the stage at On The Boards in Seattle, and on the airwaves of Oregon Public Radio.