Hola

Just a quick update. I'm living in the gallery full time now, working from sun up to sun down and then some. The gallery is about ready! The lights are hung, wired up, and working! We have a list of artists willing to show for the grand opening, and our second event is now in the works.





The second event will consist of a poetry slam/ reading/ compition thingy. Basically people come, read, and the audience judges on thier favorites and then the winners get some prizes. The theme is Valentines Day. We do have a couple out of state people entering that can't come and read so we will have a different set of prizes for them.





Well thats about it. Hope everyone is having a good time and again sorry for the lack of posts. I still don't have internet at the gallery. Later!

Blizzard #2

Yup that's right. Blizzard #2 just hit and the highways and roads are closed again. So naturally instead of working in the gallery I get to up date all of you via blog. It would have been a video blog but all my things got moved to the gallery apartment, so naturally I have nothing I can work on here.

Yes the storm has hit, but have no fear! I have been working my butt off and have managed to get the gallery back on schedule! Yay.. OK so I haven't done all that much to get it back on schedule things just fell into place and they happen to work so well that it saved us a ton on time and money. What can I tell you, as far as what has been done? Good question :) I have moved into the gallery apartment and will be living there full time as soon as the hot water gets turned on. I have also made posters for the grand opening, (with the help of Jessie and friends) painted the whole apartment, got the office in some sort of order, hauled 12 large fluorescent lights into the gallery, moved shelving, (the parents) hung the curtains in a semi permanent position, emailed various graphic designers (for the website), talked to countless insurance agents, opened business banking, created two sets of business cards, and set up a few photography appointments.

We have had growing interest in the gallery lately. People have been stopping in and asking when we will be opening, wanting early tours, questions about classes that we will offer, art that will be available, and whose gallery it is.. No one seems to believe that its mine.. weird. Hopefully this week we will finish with almost everything, but even with all the good news there is one little piece of bad news. The insurance guy said that it is nearly impossible to have insurance by the end of January. So hopefully this does not put a damper on you, the artist that want to show for the opening, as I will not be able to insure the work until the following show.

Like always, I am open to suggestions, ideas, and artists interested in showing. Our goal is to make $9000 dollars by summer time so that the gallery is self sustaining, and from there we will bring in out of state artists (we can't do shipping right now) and eventually out of the country! Big dreams I know, but I think its possible.

Well here is an update for everyone. I'm sorry about the silly video blog but it seemed faster than writing and well i just wanted to try one. Clearly i'm no late night entertainer by any means but it was fun-ish and i hope you were at least happy to get the update. Till some other day... later!

Sculpture

Ok so remember that sculpture that I wrote about in like September? Here is the only picture of it. I have finally learned to like the way it looks.

Coming Soon!

Hey everyone I am at the old folks home/ my parents house and I figured since I had a few minutes to breath I would exhale a little on you. Now I'm sorry if my spelling is horrible the only type of spell check that is available is the one on top of my screen and I often forget to push it. Anyway I wanted to update you on a few things as well as give you some of the upcoming events.

First the gallery is really starting to take shape. We finally were able to pay the deposit and the first months rent, as well as get my tax information and utilities switched over. After all that fun stuff we were finally able to get the keys and start some of the less major work. Curt is still building the bathroom/ apartment in the back so much of the major work is going to have to wait. We got the entrance painted, and mom finished the curtains very quickly and with dads help we were able to get those temporarily hung. We also got a pretty fancy coming soon poster made and the windows have now been staged. Here is the Before and After pictures.

As you can see the gallery is coming along nicely and will hopefully be ready by its tentative date January 15th.

Now for school... I am almost done. All the hard papers are out of the way as well as most of the art making. I still have my graduate thesis exhibition coming up, but I'm hoping that it can be more of a learning experience and not so much a stressful one. The exit exam is this Friday and unfortunately I have yet to study much art history. I am worried about the exit exam as it says whether or not i graduate this year. Either way I hope all goes well.

Well there isn't much more to say except keep an eye out for the show poster of upcoming events and i hope to see anyone and everyone at opening day!

The Galleria

So obviously i haven't been posting much lately. Its been crazy busy here and i haven't really had a lot of time to do much of anything, even eat! So here's what's up.

First I am pleased to announce that I have finally managed to lease my own gallery! YEaH! As you can tell I'm extremely excited and my blood starts pumping faster just thinking about. At the moment I can't really tell if its fear or excitement but either way its energizing! There is still much work to do. The walls need some touching up, sew and hang some large curtains, lights, carpet needs to come out, sand and finish the floors, furnish the apartment in the back... Oh i forgot that part. The gentleman, Curt, who is renting the space was very excited to hear that i wanted to live in the building as well as run the gallery there and said he would build me an apartment in the back. How cool is that?! I also need to set up shows and events, get a tax license, write up contracts and find a tax consultant. Any suggestions?

The next or rather first thing... meaning the gallery will open after I'm done with this. I have to graduate.. Yup I'm starting a gallery and trying to graduate at the same time.. Obviously not the greatest of things to take up all at the same time. For graduation i have to have my senior exhibit, take exit exams, and the usual finals for the other classes. I got the pretest the other day and completely bombed the first 1/3 of the test then rocked the last two. It became painfully clear that my Art History is far under par. As far as the senior show goes its just expensive and time consuming. I've orders a little over a hundred prints with sizes varying between 8x10 11x14 16-20 20-30 and 24-36. Then when they all get here i have to by the hooks that I'm hanging them with as well as foam board and spray adhesive. Finally lock myself in my poorly ventilated room and let the fun begin. All in all it gets really expensive when the munches kick in.

Finally probably the biggest mistake I've made was to add photo shoots on top of all the perviously mentioned things. I only did this because i need the money to pay for the gallery rent and well it isn't every day that a hotel asks you to take photos of their rooms, building, breakfasts, and floors and then attaches a pretty paycheck to it. Naturally I hope this could be the beginning of larger business, and i hope everything goes well. Like i said though i had to take this on during graduating, the gallery, and well I'm still a CA so that helps add a little stress on as well.

Even with all this stress and craziness going on, its hard to say that I'm not happy. I am greatly enjoying all the work and the chances to stay busy. We have decided on a name for the gallery. It will be called "The Art House Gallery" i changed galleria to gallery because well i couldn't get past it sounding like diarrhea. It will be themed like an old movie theater and hopefully eventually have a show that follows the Art House idea. The grand opening will happen later in January or February and it will be announced on here later. My senior show will be December 14-18 with a reception on the 18th at 7:00pm at the Warren M Lee Center for the Fine Arts. Everyone is invited and its a free event. The show name is "Out of Darkness".