It’s winter: time to work on the summer crops. I’m participating in this June’s Sonoma-wide Art at the Source 2024, and will be documenting the many changes required to my projects, printing process, book-making, billing, website, advertising, etc. that are needed for that event.
Depending on the results, consider it either a how-to or how-not-to series.
I’m doing this work in concert with other Sonoma artists, most-notably See See but also my studio sponsor Barbara Harris, who will be providing studio display space in Sebastopol – there will also be a salon show at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, just a few blocks away from that dedicated display.
Here are some of the tasks required over the next three months that I’ll be writing-up in more as-it-happens detail:
- Tax Registry with the County and State (already done)
- Placement and posting in the show catalog
- Creating a small number of images to fill-out some projects
- Creating New-for-the-show work
- Budgets and more-detailed budgets
- Designing and test-printing and production printing of several small series as books
- Creating and packaging editioned prints to go with those series projects
- Building-out my own toolkit for the art-fair format: physical and legal
- Promoting to specific audiences
- Tracking visitors to Botzilla from both the show catalog and the show
- Updating botzilla.com to enable a regular email newsletter, and also integration to a sales system
Early days! See you at Studio 16B on June 1st.
Next link in this series: 22 March: Sprung: Ten Weeks to Go