Working outside the gallery system?
Tina Mammoser
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Tina
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Contemporary marine and landscape paintings:
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"The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself."
--Rita Mae Brown
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Benny Shaboy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am preparing an article for studioNOTES on showing (and perhaps selling)
> work outside the gallery system. While the gallery system works for many
> artists, it is not for everyone. And even artists who are represented by
> galleries often need or want other venues.
>
> So I'd like some input from you. What have you tried that has worked, almost
> worked or didn't work?
>
> Please look over the list of direct and indirect methods below and email me
> directly about any that you've had direct or vicarious experience with.
> Please feel free to add to the list. (We've already covered the Internet
> pretty well during the last year, so we've left that out, but if there's
> something we may have missed or if you want to update what you said before,
> that's welcome, too.) I'd also like to hear about things that you haven't
> tried, but have thought about.
>
> ** More or less Direct **
>
> Auctions
>
> Restaurants, other retail businesses
>
> Professional offices (dentists, lawyers)
>
> Services other than stores; eg, auto repair shop
>
> Vacant storefronts
>
> Group open studios
>
> Private open studios
>
> Party in your home or studio or in some else's home
>
> Churches and community centers
>
> Mini portfolio or portfolio of small works that you always carry with you
>
> Art fairs
>
> Libraries
>
> Hospitals, retirement homes, retreats, etc
>
> City halls, other municipal buildings
>
> Door-to-door
>
> Guerilla public art (as in putting work on phone poles or painting manhole
> covers)
>
> Unauthorized performances
>
> Wearing it
>
> Mailing it
>
> Hand made or self-printed postcard
>
> **Indirect or Nearly So**
>
> Reproduction on T-shirts, mugs, etc
>
> Reproduction on greeting cards
>
> Catalogs offered to architects and designers
>
> Directory of artists
>
> Work part of a scene in movie, television or stage show
>
> Billboard or bus stop bench
>
> Residencies
>
> Power point presentation on your palm pilot
>
> CD portfolio
>
> Art car
>
> What Else?
>
> Thanks,
Duchas de Abril
says...
>What Else?
>
>Thanks,
It was hard to find a vacancy in your
list, but I think I failed to find:
ART COMPETITIONS
ONLINE Auctions
CHARITABLE DONATIONS (for example, giving an
art work to a charity auction).
PERCENT FOR THE ARTS (public purchase programs
specific to the USA)
MENTORING CHILDREN/ADOLESCENTS
PERSONAL PORTRAITS
QUICK PORTRAIT SKETCHES (malls, fairs, etc.)
QUICK CARICATURES (humorous portraits)
HOUSE PORTRAITS (I once did pen and inks which
my spouse then sold to the home owners who had
no knowledge beforehand I was drawing their house.)
keith o'connor (tinmangallery.com
civic gallery. The artists take turns sitting in the gallery when they
decide to open. The board has three artist members two community members and
one non-voting city representative.
There are fifty artist members in the gallery. The city provides a small
gallery space, heat, lights, and one telephone line. The city receives 10%
of sales that are made in the gallery - not in the artist studio. Total
sales only at the gallery for 2001 were about $13,000.00. Sixty percent of
all sales including those at the artists studio are made during the xmas
period. Sale price range from a few hundred to over a thousand per painting.
Artists tend to concern themselves more with painting and less with
administration. Needless to say without city support the gallery would fail.
It has one redeeming feature that keeps it going and that is the annual
young at art competition which involves awards for artistic achievement
presented to youth by the local politicians and community service groups.
The event is fully covered in all the local news papers. Parent attendance
is very high. It requires a great deal of time on the part of the artists
and community volunteers.
The gallery also has a relationship with the local theatre (live theatre).
Approximately 18 paintings can be hung on the theatre lobby wall. It is very
popular with theatre patrons and approximately one sale is made during a two
week period - the buyer must contact the artist as there are no sales
facilities on site. Each artist pays the gallery a three dollar hanging fee.
I have heard of another local theatre (playhouse) that has a very well
developed arrangement with local artists. From a patron point of view it is
an excellent arrangement for exposing local artists to the cultural
community.
keith
Benny Shaboy <B...@studionotes.org> wrote in message
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art production since the time of the Medici family and how much that has had a
influence on art production from that time till today.
Esp. since we are living in a time of "show me the money" more then the
creative. We are more then willing to invest in ephemral (sp?) technologies,
stocks, bonds and T-bills all with the 1849 gold rush pay off, of me winning
out over you.
A CULTURE CAN BLOW THE FUCKING WORLD UP!!!!!!!!!!!
and I really do not give a damn about that- do you?
How do we put a culture's efforts towards
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random thoughts
Duchas de Abril
>
>x-no-archive: yes
>So the two grad students rented a little store front in
>a friendly residential area.
On the south edge of downtown San Antonio, Texas
was an abandoned warehouse district. For many
years now it's been known as the BLUE STAR ARTS
COMPLEX. It houses artist's studios as well as
galleries. It has now garnered an international
reputation for its innovative venues and its
sponsorship of really big-name art shows. The
facility is privately owned, I believe, and artists
are required to pay rental on their spaces. There
is one central gallery - a huge space - that puts
on the rotating big-name shows.
The Blue Star Art web site is presently undergoing
re-construction, as did the complex itself about
ten years ago: http://www.bluestarartspace.org/
Similar complexes are found throughout the USA.
For example: THE TORPEDO FACTORY on the outskirts
of Washington, DC, but on the Virginia side of
the Potomac. It really is an old torpedo
factory that has been converted to studio and
gallery spaces.