Comments on: Another Rant

By: MonaMajorowicz

MonaMajorowicz — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:23:58 +0000

Well you have all convinced me to contact OSAF on this. I will most likely wait until they send out there “How did it go and How did we do?” survey. Plus it will give me a little time to be less pissy about the whole thing.

Undaunted I’m sure your right that she had loads of stress from everything. I really didn’t take it as a personal attack. Just more like this is yet another way of limiting painters from selling competitively. And truthfully I really did struggle with the idea that she wanted me to submit a slide of notecards. I kept thinking “surely I am not understanding what she really wants.”

Robert For this year I sold only notecards and prints at OSAF. though in past years I’ve sold originals there. Not this year, but one of the many years I did the event I sold almost $1000 worth of cards alone. And yes it was mostly one or a couple at a time. This is the reason I don’t do original only events. Too much stress waiting for that “one”sale to make my trip worth while.

Thanks Mel and Nick I too have been absent from checking everyone’s blogs as well. Though did pop in yesterday to see the new Mawwell painting coming along beautifully.

Olga Big hugs! You are absolutely right. Painters need to be able to sell lower end items just like “everybody” else. Why they keep pulling the rug out from under us is totally beyond me. Actually it our conversations that inspired me to write the first rant. Can’t remember if I’ll be seeing you before, but looking forward to seeing you in Ames.

By: Olga Krasovska

Olga Krasovska — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:56:09 +0000

I love you Mona! I hear you, girl!
Thank you for putting in words all those feelings any painters with laborious approuch have.
And after all that work we have done we are not allowed for decent chunk of art festivals with possibility to have customer friendly priced items so we could compit with crafters and not to be
“that amazing painter…that is so nice to have you here… thank you for sharing your beautiful art with us… we could not ever afford it…but could you please come next year… so we could enjoy it again…We have really just $40-100 to spend today, so we love you, but we’ll go and find something affordable… so we could remember this beautiful art event… and our souvenir will be…ot that ceramic mug…or never numbered photograph, post card size” : )
You have to send exactly All your “Rants” about art fair reproduction policies + strange warning about cards. Just exactly like they look in your blog + other people comments.

By: Melanie Jane Phillips

Melanie Jane Phillips — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:48:01 +0000

hey Mona, not been around of late but just caught up with your latest post and read it to Nick. We agree, write to them Mona! : ) Melanie x

By: Robert Sloan

Robert Sloan — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:08:41 +0000

Go ahead and write the cranky letter. That sounds like bureaucratic fussiness to me. If the festival’s going well, people are buying art and enjoying the art that’s juried in, what exactly is the point of notecards being something different from other sorts of prints?

All my life I’ve known professional artists make a good chunk if not the larger share of their income from print sales rather than originals. It’s why artists like you can take weeks and months on a splendid original that you’d never get paid a decent amount for as one sale. Notecards are a way that people who couldn’t really afford large prints (or have any wall space left) can still collect your art.

I hope they woludn’t have fits about it if some artists bring ACEOs to these things mounted in the typical archival top loaders instead of little frames.

By: Undaunted

Undaunted — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:40:59 +0000

I hear ya. Some people are so picky about such silly things. I think sometimes they just like to feel important. Maybe someone else rubbed her up the wrong way earlier in the day. No excuse though. Write your letter!