11/11/06 Holiday Shows
I have been busy getting ready for the Nov. 17th Mistletoe Mart Holiday Sale at the South Haven Center for the Arts. I want to have several new canvas's ready by this date so have been working hard to get them completed. I have been experienting with working orizontally on canvas - a new formay for me.
The creating of the collages is satisfying to me but the WORST part of holiday shows is getting them inventoried and individually tagged in the centers required system. The system is time consuming and laborious. I wish that the center could come up with a better tagging system as the current system is time consuming and a total pain for the artist's to complete. If they streamlined the system they might get more artists participating!
Gene and I do enjoy the annual opening reception which is traditionally held the Friday evening as a "show opening." This year the reception will be held, on November 17. It's a great social time for the both of us.
I plan to take a variety of collages on canvas in a variety of sizes and price ranges.
This is the only holiday sale I am doing this year. I have participated in the Krasl Art Center (St. Joseph, MI) holiday sales in years past but after all the prep work and delivery - artwork at Krasl had not been selling so I stopped participating (as did my photography friend Karen Murphy www.karenmurphyphoto.org.)
