The professional insertion of artists is not documented in Quebec, even though a “boom” of artistic profiles appears among young adults. This article aims to help fill this gap in research. It focuses specifically on the “artistic career management” services provided by the non-profit sector to young emerging artists. Observation of the services in question leads us to discern a logic of empowerment or self-management, in line with an injunction to autonomy existing in other sectors of community services. This suggests a pressure towards a rational and instrumental form of action, at the basis of the neoliberal ideology, which would put direct pressure on the artistic milieu via this focus on career “management.”