Comments on: Juried Shows - Selling Art http://blog.lisacall.com/2008/01/juried-shows-selling-art.html Images and writing about my abstract contemporary textile art by Lisa Call. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:49:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Lisa Call http://blog.lisacall.com/2008/01/juried-shows-selling-art.html#comment-15358 Lisa Call Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:45:30 +0000 http://blog.lisacall.com/2008/01/juried-shows-selling-art.html#comment-15358 Alyson - hurray the archives are coming back! Julie and kathy- I've thought about a book like you mention. First plan is just a book of images of my work. By the end of the year. Daniel - yes - C is key for me now - I have more than enough lines on my resume - I need something more. Helen - yes - hurray for you - no more paying to be an artist. Angela - thank you for the reminder - you are right - it was a good thing to do. Although now I'm paying the price with the packing and shipping and it's not making me smile so much. Jafabrit - sorry you got burned - that stinks. Penny - thank you! I will keep looking for places to show my work as I do love sharing it (you are right - that is important) - but I don't think I should have to lose money to do it. Denise - thank you - I appreciate comments like yours quite a lot. Kim - cool - I get to be a quote :)!! Alyson - hurray the archives are coming back!

Julie and kathy- I’ve thought about a book like you mention. First plan is just a book of images of my work. By the end of the year.

Daniel - yes - C is key for me now - I have more than enough lines on my resume - I need something more.

Helen - yes - hurray for you - no more paying to be an artist.

Angela - thank you for the reminder - you are right - it was a good thing to do. Although now I’m paying the price with the packing and shipping and it’s not making me smile so much.

Jafabrit - sorry you got burned - that stinks.

Penny - thank you! I will keep looking for places to show my work as I do love sharing it (you are right - that is important) - but I don’t think I should have to lose money to do it.

Denise - thank you - I appreciate comments like yours quite a lot.

Kim - cool - I get to be a quote :)!!

]]> By: Julie http://blog.lisacall.com/2008/01/juried-shows-selling-art.html#comment-15357 Julie Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:52:00 +0000 http://blog.lisacall.com/2008/01/juried-shows-selling-art.html#comment-15357 Yes! Write a book! Yes! Write a book!

]]> By: Daniel Sroka http://blog.lisacall.com/2008/01/juried-shows-selling-art.html#comment-15356 Daniel Sroka Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:48:30 +0000 http://blog.lisacall.com/2008/01/juried-shows-selling-art.html#comment-15356 I fully agree. I cut down my list of competitions to a very small number (3). I only will submit my work to shows that (a) I respect, (b) I respect who they pick as winners, and (c) are able to give me something more than just a line on my resume. I fully agree. I cut down my list of competitions to a very small number (3). I only will submit my work to shows that (a) I respect, (b) I respect who they pick as winners, and (c) are able to give me something more than just a line on my resume.

]]> By: Alyson B. Stanfield http://blog.lisacall.com/2008/01/juried-shows-selling-art.html#comment-15355 Alyson B. Stanfield Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:05:35 +0000 http://blog.lisacall.com/2008/01/juried-shows-selling-art.html#comment-15355 Love hearing your thought process, as always, Lisa. And it's been interesting watching your metamorphosis--the change from being ambivalent about sales to your new desire to stop losing money. (I'm sure you never WANTED to lose money in the first place.) BTW, the Art Marketing Action newsletter is just up for a week, but it's podcasted at http://www.artbizblog each Wednesday. AND, the newsletter archives will soon be available to all on ArtBizCoach.com. Thanks for the mention. Love hearing your thought process, as always, Lisa. And it’s been interesting watching your metamorphosis–the change from being ambivalent about sales to your new desire to stop losing money. (I’m sure you never WANTED to lose money in the first place.)

BTW, the Art Marketing Action newsletter is just up for a week, but it’s podcasted at http://www.artbizblog each Wednesday. AND, the newsletter archives will soon be available to all on ArtBizCoach.com. Thanks for the mention.

]]> By: Helen Harris http://blog.lisacall.com/2008/01/juried-shows-selling-art.html#comment-15354 Helen Harris Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:54:58 +0000 http://blog.lisacall.com/2008/01/juried-shows-selling-art.html#comment-15354 "I love being an artist but I am done paying to be an artist" BRAVO!!! You've given me my war cry of the year! After gathering all my financial facts for the end of the year,the only debt I created was the poor business choice of doing a show to help out the bottom line of a friend's gallery. No more decisions that put me in debt. The juried shows, not calculating the true value of my costly framing,and most importantly....pricing my work so I can support myself! I have the credentials .I have the sales....I need the resolve. Thanks Lisa! Helen http://pineshorestudio.blogspot.com “I love being an artist but I am done paying to be an artist”
BRAVO!!! You’ve given me my war cry of the year!
After gathering all my financial facts for the end of the year,the
only debt I created was the poor business choice of doing a show to help out
the bottom line of a friend’s gallery. No more decisions that put me in debt.
The juried shows, not calculating the true value of my costly framing,and most importantly….pricing my work so I can support myself! I have the credentials .I have the sales….I need the resolve. Thanks Lisa!
Helen
http://pineshorestudio.blogspot.com

]]> By: Angela Moll http://blog.lisacall.com/2008/01/juried-shows-selling-art.html#comment-15353 Angela Moll Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:47:48 +0000 http://blog.lisacall.com/2008/01/juried-shows-selling-art.html#comment-15353 "So I ask myself - If I knew I would get in - why was I entering these shows?" Because you are a smart woman who knows that a little ego boosting is needed when life is hard and loss strikes. I do not mean to correct you in your assessment of your choices, but it truly seems to me that seeking an opportunity for easy success after great loss is so constructive and smart. In any case, you make a good point regarding the need to be picky with or even completely avoid juried shows. The fact that the sale of actual quilts is not the economic motor of the art quilt field spills over to art quilt juried shows. They are a good marketing tool for those who sell derivative products such as workshops and, as Penny says above, they are a gift to the viewers. “So I ask myself - If I knew I would get in - why was I entering these shows?”

Because you are a smart woman who knows that a little ego boosting is needed when life is hard and loss strikes. I do not mean to correct you in your assessment of your choices, but it truly seems to me that seeking an opportunity for easy success after great loss is so constructive and smart.

In any case, you make a good point regarding the need to be picky with or even completely avoid juried shows. The fact that the sale of actual quilts is not the economic motor of the art quilt field spills over to art quilt juried shows. They are a good marketing tool for those who sell derivative products such as workshops and, as Penny says above, they are a gift to the viewers.

]]> By: kathy http://blog.lisacall.com/2008/01/juried-shows-selling-art.html#comment-15352 kathy Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:50:52 +0000 http://blog.lisacall.com/2008/01/juried-shows-selling-art.html#comment-15352 My recommendation for you Lisa is to write a book. Your style is unique, recognizable and absolutely spectacular. You have a real talent with the written word. Your workmanship is flawless. I'd love to see your techniques in a book. How you dye fabric, your inspiration, construction techniques, all sprinkled with your art journey. Anyway, I've never heard you discuss that option and I would love to own that book! My recommendation for you Lisa is to write a book. Your style is unique, recognizable and absolutely spectacular. You have a real talent with the written word. Your workmanship is flawless. I’d love to see your techniques in a book. How you dye fabric, your inspiration, construction techniques, all sprinkled with your art journey. Anyway, I’ve never heard you discuss that option and I would love to own that book!

]]> By: jafabrit http://blog.lisacall.com/2008/01/juried-shows-selling-art.html#comment-15351 jafabrit Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:42:36 +0000 http://blog.lisacall.com/2008/01/juried-shows-selling-art.html#comment-15351 Enjoyed the link and yes, it bring up a lot of very important questions. I don't mind paying a fee when I feel there is a genuine interest by the gallery or group etc, in promoting art and said show, but there have been so many that are just doing it to make a buck off the artists and they are shams really. My last experience burned me (and I didn't even have to pay to get into the show) from juried shows indefinitely (unless I really really a respect the juror or the venue). Enjoyed the link and yes, it bring up a lot of very important questions. I don’t mind paying a fee when I feel there is a genuine interest by the gallery or group etc, in promoting art and said show, but there have been so many that are just doing it to make a buck off the artists and they are shams really. My last experience burned me (and I didn’t even have to pay to get into the show) from juried shows indefinitely (unless I really really a respect the juror or the venue).

]]> By: Penny Gold http://blog.lisacall.com/2008/01/juried-shows-selling-art.html#comment-15349 Penny Gold Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:12:51 +0000 http://blog.lisacall.com/2008/01/juried-shows-selling-art.html#comment-15349 I would just add that a reason (from a viewer's perspective) for you to enter a show or two is for the opportunity for other people to find out about your work. I first saw your work in Quilt National (both earlier and this past year); it is a gift to your viewers to be able to see your work. I will never be in a position to buy one of your quilts (except for one of your art cards, which I'm delighted to have!), so I'm grateful to have an opportunity to occasionally see one of your quilts "in person." That said, I entirely understand and am in sympathy with your reasons for not entering a multitude of juried shows. I would just add that a reason (from a viewer’s perspective) for you to enter a show or two is for the opportunity for other people to find out about your work. I first saw your work in Quilt National (both earlier and this past year); it is a gift to your viewers to be able to see your work. I will never be in a position to buy one of your quilts (except for one of your art cards, which I’m delighted to have!), so I’m grateful to have an opportunity to occasionally see one of your quilts “in person.” That said, I entirely understand and am in sympathy with your reasons for not entering a multitude of juried shows.

]]> By: Denise http://blog.lisacall.com/2008/01/juried-shows-selling-art.html#comment-15348 Denise Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:25:38 +0000 http://blog.lisacall.com/2008/01/juried-shows-selling-art.html#comment-15348 I am so happy I stumbled across your website from a google search today. you have some wonderful pieces and great ideas! I love your perspective! I am so happy I stumbled across your website from a google search today. you have some wonderful pieces and great ideas! I love your perspective!

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