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Featured artist sarah lacy

Sarah shares her thoughts about wisdom and sharing

2010 by Bill

I’ve also learned that I need to cre­ate work that’s impor­tant to me. I have to dig deep. When I do that, I cre­ate work that’s mean­ing­ful to me and mean­ing­ful to oth­ers, and that’s my job at the end of the day – to cre­ate mean­ing. And those are always the pieces that I can’t keep around – they fly off the shelves.

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Featured artist sarah lacy

Sarah on rules, tradition and building community

2010 by Bill

I think almost every­thing I do would be con­sid­ered “non-traditional” by very tra­di­tional artists, but I don’t know how much of it is really “out there”. I try to see mar­ket­ing as another cre­ative out­let, where I can exper­i­ment and try new things.

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Doing it for me

2010 by Sarah Lacy

I had a real­iza­tion this morning.

A really obvi­ous one actu­ally, but I can be dense sometimes.

When I do some­thing for me and my own rea­sons, I suc­ceed. When I do some­thing to prove myself, or get approval, or from a sense of guilt, I never get anywhere.

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Featured artist sarah lacy

Sarah talks about Art as Business

2010 by Bill

When I was 16, I was already itch­ing to run my own busi­ness and I gave it a shot and failed mis­er­ably. I never really got any­where because I didn’t have any way of get­ting myself out there. I’d fallen for the “Build it and they’ll come” myth. That’s when I real­ized some­thing had to change.

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The Artists center featured artist Sara Lacy

Sarah talks about growth and influence

2010 by Bill

You know those moments when it feels like your spirit is danc­ing? When you’re almost painfully full of life and joy and every­thing in sarah_lacy_meganbetween? That. That’s what I want to cap­ture every time I put brush to can­vas. Some­times I get it across, some­times I don’t. But that’s my focus every sin­gle time.

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Perfectionism and Quality

2010 by Sarah Lacy

If I wiped out every paint­ing I wasn’t com­pletely excited about, then I’d have no paint­ings. In every sin­gle piece, I hit a stage where I think I’ve screwed it up com­pletely, and that there’s no hope.

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Robin Pedrero solo show

Solo Show by Featured Artist Robin Pedrero

2009 by Bill

Artist Robin Maria Pedrero presents works of art that infuse color and design to illus­trate the time­less­ness of nature and love. Using opaque and trans­par­ent painted layers

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Going Wholesale Part 4: more important details

2010 by kristen

I didn’t apply early enough to get a lot of advance mail­ers and/or adver­tis­ing spots pur­chased to let the buy­ers know I was com­ing. But, as soon as I was aware of my booth num­ber, I did let folks know via email, twit­ter, and my blog that I would be attend­ing the event. Brochures and stick­ers were pro­vided by BMAC.

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Going Wholesale Part 3:Terms,Orders and General Details

2010 by kristen

You know your items bet­ter than the buyer who might be see­ing them for the first time, so high­light your best-sellers. Either put stick­ers on them let­ting the buyer know about your best-sellers, or show items that are exclu­sive to the show you are doing.

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