Urgently need data - is this normal?
May. 22nd, 2004 02:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solarbirdSo I went down to Pitcarn Scott Gallery today and showed a few of my pieces; the owner thought they were interesting; I'm not ready for a front-room showing, but they're interested in a three-artist show, with someone else up front, me in the second room, and a third artist in back in the small room. That's pretty cool; they're a Belltown gallery and the most I've ever done before has been a single showing in the back of Bothell Books. (Which was nice! But a different world.)
Here's the question.
They charge. For that, you get invitations (design, photography, printing), mailings promoting your opening (500 people, their clientele list), a page on their web site for a year, photography for that (which is different); they host the opening, and provide wine, food, a mini-bar and bartender. And press releases.
They also will do a poster, but that costs extra.
If this were print, it'd be a vanity press - albeit a nice one that does some actual publicity instead of the usual bullshit publicity. But this is art, and the world is worse for artists than writers.
So! Is this normal in the Seattle art world? Anybody know? Anybody? Help?
Here's the question.
They charge. For that, you get invitations (design, photography, printing), mailings promoting your opening (500 people, their clientele list), a page on their web site for a year, photography for that (which is different); they host the opening, and provide wine, food, a mini-bar and bartender. And press releases.
They also will do a poster, but that costs extra.
If this were print, it'd be a vanity press - albeit a nice one that does some actual publicity instead of the usual bullshit publicity. But this is art, and the world is worse for artists than writers.
So! Is this normal in the Seattle art world? Anybody know? Anybody? Help?
