Judith Teitelman
author : Judith TeitelmanJudith Teitelman has straddled the worlds of art, literature, and business since she was a teenager and worked her first job as a salesperson at a B. Dalton / Pickwick Bookstore. Just three months after graduating from UCLA with a degree in Art History, she was hired by Ace Gallery to open and manage Art and Architecture Books of the Twentieth Century, at the time Los Angeles’ second bookstore devoted exclusively to the arts. She began her career in the nonprofit sector in 1983, and in 1990 launched her arts and business management consulting firm working nationally with grass roots and mid-sized organizations and large institutions. She is also a mentor, trainer, and professional advisor to artists working in all disciplines.\n\nJudith is adjunct faculty in the Theater School at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) team teaching Entrepreneurship. She is a regular trainer at the Nonprofit Partnership in Long Beach and the Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI), among others, and was a trainer for more than 20 years at Los Angeles’ Center for Nonprofit Management.\n\nAlways, Judith continued her pursuit of all things literary and over the years, her articles have been published in a variety of formats and publications. These include two articles on the National Endowment for the Arts website, one that remained on the site for a dozen years, and six recent articles in Professional Artist magazine.\n\nGUESTHOUSE FOR GANESHA, a tale of love, loss, and spirit reclaimed, is her debut novel. Published in May 2019, her novel was recently shortlisted in the 2019 Sarton Women's Book Awards for Historical Fiction.\n\nIn 2016 this novel’s first chapter was published in the highly regarded literary journal \ View more >>Judith Teitelman Book Series