After a very successful open studio this weekend, I just have to share. If you local art center or art group holds an open studio weekend...GO FOR IT...sign up to participate and open your studio to the public.
Our local Art center organizes a county wide open studio tour. It has gotten so successful it is now broken up into South County and North County tours. With hundreds of artists participating.
This weekend we had over 150 people come to visit my studio. We made really wonderful sales to the visitors. Since I now have a gift shop in my studio I did have to do some reworking to move all of the other products out of my store. Only my designs could be showcased during the open studio. It was so much fun meeting people and I think they really enjoyed meeting me as well. I think it will help me gain some new regular customers for our gift store. A lot of them already knew my work from our local gallery and were so excited to see my studio to see how it worked.
So look around and find out if your local art center offers an open studio tour.
please let me know when you have your next Open Studio!
Thanks!
Posted by: C. Farnsworth | March 11, 2006 at 08:41 AM