Lisa Call – Textile Paintings

ACC Balitmore – Booth Set Up – Day 2

February 19, 2013

It was a long day and a lot more work than I anticipated but my booth is set up and I’m ready for the wholesale buyers – who will hopefully be arriving in droves at 10am tomorrow. Stories are better with pictures so here’s another photo documentary of my day: This is the view from [...]

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ACC Balitmore – Booth Set Up – Day 1

February 18, 2013

It’s Baltimore time! My first ever “stand in a booth and sell my art” type show. Pretty exciting. And a LOT of work. We get 2 days to set up our booths, which is nice as I don’t feel rushed at all. I took a break early afternoon and wandered up to the Lexington Market [...]

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The Really Stressful Week – aka – Shipping Art

February 12, 2013

Portals #6 ©2013 Lisa Call 12 x 12 inches Fabric, paint, thread batting Mounted on Stretched Canvas Available in booth 1207 at the American Craft Council Baltimore show Feb 22-24, 2013 The Plan In my last post about the Baltimore Craft Council show I wrote about shipping. That was post was misnamed. It was really [...]

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Shipping: Decoding another Mystery of the Fine Craft Tradeshow Circuit

February 7, 2013

What Can Brown Do For You? Getting it There Last week I shared my decision around the construction of my booth for the upcoming American Craft Council Fine Craft Show. That was the first overwhelming question I had to answer to get ready for the show. The second, and even more daunting, question I had [...]

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Decoding a few of the Mysteries of the Fine Craft Tradeshow Circuit

January 31, 2013

As I prepare for the American Craft Council Wholesale and Retail tradeshow in Baltimore at the end of February I am learning a lot. As in more than can currently fit into my head. One of the most critical bits I needed to address was the all important question “what will my booth look like?” [...]

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Dreams now 20% Off!

January 24, 2013

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real. Winter Studio Sale It’s time once again for the Artful Home studio sale. What is that you ask? Artful Home is THE best online source for art, fine-craft, jewelry, clothing and other handmade products on the internet. They are quite choosy about the artists they carry and their [...]

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Making Lots of Art + Getting Ready to Booth It

January 23, 2013

Portals In Progress ©2013 Lisa Call The World’s Longest Todo List I mentioned last week that I was crazy busy.  Writing my personal mission statement will have to wait until March. Why, what are you doing?  Thanks for asking! In addition to being in the thick of my winter trimester (I’m teaching 4 online courses [...]

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Personal Mission Statement as Word of the Year

January 17, 2013

Portals #11 ©2013 Lisa Call 8 x 8 inches Textile Painting (Fabric hand dyed by the artist, cotton batting, cotton thread) Mounted on Stretched Canvas Available at Ohio Craft Museum No Word of the Year for 2013 Recently I shared that the word of the year concept isn’t working for me anymore. Instead I will [...]

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My Focus for the Year in 2013 – Making Art

January 8, 2013

Structures #56 ©2006 Lisa Call 58 x 48 inches Textile Painting (Fabric hand dyed by the artist, cotton batting, cotton thread) No Word of the Year for 2013 Recently I shared that the word of the year concept isn’t working for me anymore. One of my wonderful insightful readers, Linda,  helped me put my finger [...]

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A Few Bonus Openings in my Online Art Workshops

January 5, 2013

A Celebration Update – the classes are now up and running and I’m not accepting more new students this trimester – I’ll be teaching again this summer – check out my Course Catalog for upcoming classes. To celebrate the near miss of financial mishap here in the US (our fabulous congress managed to get themselves [...]

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