Where to hold your First Solo Exhibition
The dream of many aspiring art superstars is to hold an exhibition in a commercial gallery, imagining that the Gallery will take care of everything, instantly sell your artwork to their large client base and make you a H-U-G-E success, however, for many beginners and independent minded artists, holding your own exhibition in a space that you choose is the way only to go.
Get ready for you first solo exhibition…
Who is the Audience for Your Art?
If you are going to sell your art it would be useful to know who your art is really for. That way you can concentrate you marketing and promotions efforts on the people most likely to buy it. Is your art for the locals in your town? art collectors? industry bigwigs? home decorators? cat owners? football fans? sci-fi geeks? tourists?
So who is the audience for your art?
Find a Famous Friend to open Your Exhibition
Sooner or later when you are out and about in your daily life talking to people about your art and your next art exhibition you are going to come across famous, important or influential people who it might be good to invite along in an official capacity to open the show and say some nice things about you and your art to the crowd.
Do you have enough art for an exhibition?
It can take a considerable amount of time and effort (not to mention expense) to create a full exhibition of artworks so its wise when setting the date for your opening night to set realistic dates by which you can produce enough works.
How to promote your art exhibition with a mini art folio
So you’ve create your artworks and you’re ready to promote your art exhibition or event. You could use the Internet and all manner of promotional web sites, blogs, mailing lists and systems to get your creativity out there, but at the end of the day, certainly at the beginning of your art journey nothing beats personally showing your art to people in your area who can actually turn up to your real world art show.
Begging for your Business Card
Ah, the humble business card. Such an institution in the world of commerce and trade that to not to have one is positively unseemly. Could such a thing induce begging behaviour? Would one even want someone to beg for your business card? We shall see…
Make a Portable Art Promotion Portfolio
A fantastic and very tasty looking Recipe for creating a personal organiser mini art portfolio for promotions on the go!
