I am fundamentally opposed to paying submission fees, as I stated in part 1 of this rant. I understand that the curator or juror has to be paid and that the gallery has overhead and bills to pay, but, hey, so does the artist. It also used to be that the gallery would pay the return shipping…
Read moreMy Social Media Rules
You can search Google and come up with literally millions of websites that tell you all about being a success on social media sites. It can be overwhelming and it is. So I decided to make my own social media rules. This is how I interact on the one social media site that I seem to…
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Free Art for Sale – Donating Art to Charity
If the only reason you are donating art to charity is for the exposure then you are doing it for the wrong reason.
Read moreSubmission Fees
More and more you see calls to artists where there is a $25 to $35 submission fee. I have also seen some that are asking for $10 per image submitted. This fee doesn’t guarantee that you are in the show only that you can submit. I have also noticed that alot of calls state that…
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Preparing Installation Work for Exhibition
Weather it is a group or a solo exhibition if you are showing in a Public Art Gallery you have responsibilities. NEVER assume anything, always ask. There are a number of responsibilities you have as a exhibiting artist but in this post we’re going to talk about the installation of an installation work. What you need to know:…
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Damaged Work
I posed the question for Alyson Stanfield to use at artbizblog.com: Have you ever shown at a venue that broke or damaged one of your artworks and didn’t offer to remunerate you for the loss? What did you do? The response was over whelming, 19 38 comments. Admittedly a few of those comments were me…
Read moreShipping Art
Shipping art to the U.S. and getting it back again. It’s the getting it back that’s the tough part. I had 5 pieces in an exhibition in New York a few years ago. After the show was over and the gallery shipped it back, the work was stopped at the border. Customs would not release…
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