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buyers market of american craft

Part 2: Preparing to do wholesale. My initial questions.

2010 by kristen

As soon as I knew I was attend­ing the Buyer’s Mar­ket of Amer­i­can Craft (BMAC), I wrote a cou­ple of notes to Wendy Rosen. She’s an amaz­ing woman and a ter­rific advo­cate for the artist. She is the founder of the Rosen Group and the Buyer’s Mar­ket of Amer­i­can Craft.

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Surviving the Buyer’s Market: my first wholesale show

Featured Artist by kristen

So, as I was look­ing through Arts/Craft Show appli­ca­tion dead­lines online, I found the appli­ca­tion for the “Buyer’s Mar­ket of Amer­i­can Craft” (BMAC) at the Philadel­phia Con­ven­tion Center.

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going gocco part 2

Going Gocco Part II: the first print run

2010 by Lorrie Whittington

Well, I finally made time to do a print run of the Celtic Heart I designed ear­lier in the week.

I drew it free hand using the car­bon pen sup­plied with the machine. How­ever, next time I am going to pre­pare the design dig­i­tally and print with a laser printer. The design incor­po­rated strong clean lines and I tried to keep it as unfussy as pos­si­ble, going for a bold and dynamic design.

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Lorrie talks about the importance of sharing wisdom

2010 by Bill

Each of the artists fea­tured here has made efforts to develop emerg­ing artists through what­ever ways work best, whether through teach­ing, lend­ing a hand with a new­comer on Etsy or other on line venues or just mak­ing friends with some­body new to the scene. One of the impor­tant traits of a leader is their secu­rity in the unique­ness of their work and their knowl­edge that while tech­nique may be copied style and vision can­not be.

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Lorrie printing gocco

Lorrie Goes Gocco: Part I

2010 by Lorrie Whittington

Late last year I bought a Gocco printer. I had wanted one for ages and when the rather tal­ented Mel from Inkmeup bought one and blogged about it, I decided to get one. I bought a sec­ond hand PG10 from the lovely Liz at Dream­ing Spi­rals. How­ever, as with most things in my life, it took a while to get around to actu­ally design­ing some art and printing.

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featured artist lorrie whittington on breaking new ground

Lorrie talks about breaking new ground

2010 by Bill

Yes, I have a lovely group of fol­low­ers and buy­ers who have found my work via Etsy, Face­book, Twit­ter, my Blog and my web­site. Most of them keep up with my work either through Face­book or my Blog, and some have sub­scribed to my shop (Art4Sale) newsletter.

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Guest writer Lorrie Whittington

Art is for all…or rather, all can draw, or rather…all SHOULD draw.

2010 by Lorrie Whittington

I have lost count of the peo­ple who have said to me, when hav­ing told them I am an artist, or that I had stud­ied art at Uni­ver­sity, how much they loved art at and paint­ing at school. How much they loved draw­ing or paint­ing as children.

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The Artists center featured artist Lorrie Whittington

Lorrie talks about business and art

2010 by Bill

My mar­ket­ing jour­ney has not been as well planned as I would have hoped or advo­cate. How­ever, I did write down some SMART goals of what I wished to achieve, and wrote a loose busi­ness plan, which I need to update. Hav­ing done some busi­ness courses, the skills and tools I learnt from those have stood me in good stead, par­tic­u­larly when it comes to plan­ning, mar­ket­ing and mea­sur­ing performance.

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The Artists center featured artist Lorrie Whittington

Lorrie Whittington talks about her art

2010 by Bill

From a very early age I was draw­ing and paint­ing, and every Christ­mas and for every Birth­day I was given pens, pen­cils, paints, paper. I learnt to sew also when I was very young, and my Grand­mother taught me how to do embroi­dery. She had a very old Singer sewing machine, not an elec­tric, you had to turn the handle.

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