How to hang an art exhibition
And so the time has come…
Exhibition day is almost upon you. You’ve loaded up the back of you compact car with all your artworks in such a way that you would think that your vehicle must defy the laws of the universe by having more interior space than is indicated by its exterior dimensions. Rear vision mirror view safety has made way for bubble wrap and canvas.
Is your Art a Charity Case?
For some reason whenever charity committees get together there is always someone (let’s call her Jenny Brightspark) who displays their pure money raising genius to everyone by brightly suggesting “Lets have a charity art raffle / auction / lucky door prize” (*delete as appropriate).
“Go to it!” says the rest of the committee approvingly, excited at the prospect of free art from a (semi) famous artist being sold for thousands of dollars and thus filling their coffers extra super fast..much faster than trolling door to door selling tickets in the local middle class affluent money suburb.
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!
How to build a marketing list at your exhibition
So it’s opening night. Your heart is all aflutter with excitement. Will people turn up? Will they like your artwork? Will they buy it? Will you have enough white wine to get people tipsy enough to extract their credit card? So many things to think about, and here’s another.
How to have a massive art exhibition opening night
By now if you’ve followed the rest of this series you’ll have gathered a list of people to invite to your exhibition in your Portable Mini Art Portfolio. It’s time to get a plan together about how you are going to contact the people on your list again.
