Business Profitable artists: Jill Hackney By Maggie Heyn Richardson - June 10, 2015 FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmailPrint (Collin Richie) Jill Hackney (Photo by Collin Richie: Jill Hackney) Visual artist Annual income: Up to $60,000 In the late 1990s, painter Jill Hackney was sharing studio space in downtown Baton Rouge with her friend and … Already an INSIDER? Sign in.