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Morganica’s experiences in planning, designing, building, setting up, and selling her art to art fairs, galleries, craft shows, online, private commissions

12 12, 2016

Setting Up My Gallery-Style Art Show Booth

2017-10-07T18:13:59-07:00

Kathy Engholm here. Cynthia invited me to write a guest article about my new(ish) art show booth furniture (shown above). My  previous post was about the main parts used in designing the booth. In this post, I'll describe the setup process for this gallery-style art show booth. Before a show For many basic life activities, I use physical objects to [...]

Setting Up My Gallery-Style Art Show Booth2017-10-07T18:13:59-07:00
11 10, 2016

Choosing parts for a gallery-style art show booth

2017-10-07T18:13:59-07:00

Kathy Engholm here. Cynthia invited me to write a guest article about my new(ish) art show booth furniture (shown above). My first post was about the requirements I set before starting the design. In this post, I'll discuss the key parts that allowed me to meet those requirements. Basic structural design Mating pieces for connecting rails to posts [...]

Choosing parts for a gallery-style art show booth2017-10-07T18:13:59-07:00
10 09, 2016

Making a gallery-style art show booth

2020-06-21T19:13:30-07:00

Gallery-style art show booth by Kathy Engholm Last spring I visited the Oregon Glass Guild's big art show and saw some wonderful glass. I also saw my friend Kathy's innovative, low-cost art show booth design, which looks simple but is chock-full of great ideas. Kathy's an author, blogger, artist, engineer and inventor, used to solving nasty technical problems [...]

Making a gallery-style art show booth2020-06-21T19:13:30-07:00
2 10, 2014

Selling babies

2015-11-07T16:18:39-08:00

What do the above pieces have in common? They still live with me. I’ve never really thought of myself as sentimentalist. Sure, I sometimes sob at tearjerker chickflicks or cracking good animation or sublimely elegant algorithms or wonderful UX or hardware that really IS “plug and play” or somebody just being nice for no good reason or incredible art. And maybe I [...]

Selling babies2015-11-07T16:18:39-08:00
15 05, 2012

Art fair, year 3

2017-10-07T18:05:50-07:00

To all artists who make (at least part of) a living doing artfairs: Superpeople. You're superpeople. Your muscles are titanium, your brains are solid gold. I am not in your class. After one artfair, my muscles are jelly, and my brain is solid mush.

Art fair, year 32017-10-07T18:05:50-07:00
15 03, 2012

Boothmaker, boothmaker, make me a booth (kinda)

2017-10-07T18:05:38-07:00

One nice thing about a glass art blog is that it's read by...(drumroll) ...artists. Especially artists who sell their work at artfairs and such. And that's just who I want to talk to now. If you've designed a good booth for selling arts and crafts: I need your advice. Please?

Boothmaker, boothmaker, make me a booth (kinda)2017-10-07T18:05:38-07:00
29 08, 2011

Headed for the Pearl

2017-10-07T18:05:01-07:00

"I'd much rather have you in the booth, instead of helping with setup," she said, and I felt a mild tingle of pride. "I suppose," I said modestly, "You want your best *people* people out front, interacting with the public." "No, it's just that schlepping pedestals isn't exactly your strong suite," she replied, "I saw you working setup last time." That's what I love about New Yorkers: You never have to wonder what they're thinking.

Headed for the Pearl2017-10-07T18:05:01-07:00
5 05, 2011

Show tunes

2017-10-07T18:02:26-07:00

Definition of exhausted: Me. Actually, I'm writing this the day after the Gathering of the Guilds, an artist-owned art fair that I'm told is the largest west of the Mississippi, so you'd think I'd be recovered by now. But this is the 11th year the Oregon Glass Guild participated, and only the second year that *I* shared a booth at the show so, as with last year's show, I ran myself ragged. And found out I still have a LOT to learn. I am--for those of you who don't follow this blog--a show newbie. What I don't know about being an art/craft fair vendor could fill an encyclopedia. On the off chance that there's someone out there even more clueless about shows, I figured it'd be kinda constructive to discuss the things that went wrong (and right).

Show tunes2017-10-07T18:02:26-07:00
29 05, 2010

Never puzzle a juror

2017-10-07T17:57:10-07:00

"Uneven. VERY uneven," said the man sitting next to me, "I can't decide if she's brilliant or a D student." "Yes," concurred the lady on the other side, "She's still looking for her voice." We were paging through a computer slideshow, evaluating artists' work for a competition. Applicants had been asked to submit a body of work, not just one [...]

Never puzzle a juror2017-10-07T17:57:10-07:00
5 05, 2010

Making an art fair booth

2021-06-15T14:12:10-07:00

Staffing a booth is fun, but not nearly so much fun as designing and building it. (And taking it down is hell, but that's another story) Having exactly ONE art fair under my belt, I'm not gonna suggest that I'm an expert at booth design or management. Terry Belunes and I took our new artfair booth out for a test run last weekend at our first show; we were pleased with the results, but found lots of room for improvement. Don't take this as showdesign gospel, but the following is booth design from a newbie perspective. I welcome ALL suggestions and helpful hints.

Making an art fair booth2021-06-15T14:12:10-07:00
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