An unexpected good thing

I knew today I was going to get the notification for the Telluride Festival of the Arts in Colorado. I have been applying to out of state shows here and there and have so far been rejected from all of them. I expected another rejection and was preparing myself for it. I hadn't gotten the email all day and just thought I'd take a look at the Zapplication site to see if they had put the notice up on my applied shows page. I check the page and there it was. "Invited". I was laying down for a quick rest at the time and jumped up and shouted "NO WAY!!". I couldn't believe it. It had to be a mistake. But soon after I got the email giving me congratulations on my acceptance. I'm still a little surprised and wonder if this show is that good. I mean they accepted me, how great can it be?

Ok...gotta give myself a LITTLE credit. I'm good at what I do, but like most artists, I have doubt. I'd probably be annoying as all get out if I walked around patting myself on the back all day long, so I take my talent with a grain of salt.

Shortly after that email, I got another accepting me to the Edina Art Fair. 

I don't know if I mentioned, but I was also accepted into the Wayzata Art Experience, replacing the Rivertown Art Festival on my usual art fair schedule.

The art fair year is shaping up well!

Try, try again

I just finished the applications for the Telluride Festival of the Arts and the Vail Arts Festival. After the rejection from Ann Arbor I am very hesitant to be spending money on jury fees to shows that I have very little chance of getting in to, but if I don't try, I'll never know. It's exciting to think about doing something new somewhere different, but on the flip side the idea of that makes the rejections that much harder.

I ordered more of the concentration word game images so I'm hoping to add to the series of new collages that I posted about a week ago. I have decided they will be a limited edition of 50 and will sell for $50 each. I will have them for sale at the first art fair of the season, Arts at the Oval, coming up at the end of March. Visit my website for details!

A day late, but still at it!

I was out of town last weekend and managed to get a blog in on Friday, but couldn't swing it yesterday. I'm going to keep up with my 3 day a week blogging as I promised myself (one of the few resolutions I've been following through on, actually), so I'll be blogging both today and tomorrow.

Nothing too noteworthy actually, so not much to blog about. While I was out of town, I updated my website schedule to reflect a new store that has my collage cards as well as 2 art fairs that I will be at in the upcoming months.

As postage rates continue to rise, I'm not quite sure where I stand on continuing to send out my snail mail postcard schedule. I know quite a few of my customers look for it, but as my list grows, so does the cost. (That's kind of a "duh" statement, huh?) I'm debating whether I should send out a postcard that invites people to join my email newsletter instead and notifying them of the switch to system. OR, send out a postcard and ask them which they'd rather receive, that way I know my customers will continue to be notified in their preferred method and I save costs in the long run!

Wow, while I'm not sure anyone reads this, it sure does allow me to babble "out loud" and figure out what I'm doing!

Anyone have any ideas for me as far as direct mail goes?

New things coming up

Today I received the acceptance to Arts at the Oval at the John Rose Oval. It will take place March 28-29. I'll post the art fair to my website schedule soon.

I'm applying to an art fair in Beverly Hills in May. I applied to the show last year and was rejected so maybe things will come through this year. I'm not 100% happy with my booth photo of my "other" art (I wouldn't bring my Minnesota collages to Beverly Hills) so if I did get rejected again I wouldn't be surprised. I'm going to be applying for quite a few out of state shows this year but don't have much hope of getting in to any of them. I know positive thinking is important, but my location collage work is so much more popular than my other collage work that it's just hard for me to keep my hopes up.

Hoping to continue working on new collages and as I said in a previous blog, I want to get down to Chicago sometime very soon. I'll keep the blog posted!