True story.
This morning I opened our local newspaper to be greeted with headlines of another art gallery closing. Based on the many Google Alerts I have running this is common news all over the country and the world. The current economy is just too weak for many art galleries to survive.
Of course this is bad news for the gallery owner who is trying to make a living, but it is also very bad news for artists. As galleries close artists have less and less space to display and sell their work. I know many who see this as a time to despair and a time to give up on trying to make it as an artist. The economy is just too slow and too weak for an artist to survive. I hope you don’t think like that because I have some good news for artists working today.
It just keeps getting easier and more cost effective to sell your art online. Your destiny as an artist and your ability to sell your work is 100% in your hands. But it is not without challenges.
The challenge lies in navigating and managing all of the options that are available to you online. There are so many things you could do that it is easy to get overwhelmed and give up on the idea of selling your work via the internet. Which is why I have more good news for you, Art Palaver is going to focus 100% on helping you sell your art online.
This post is just a teaser of things to come and changes that on the way for this site. It will remain a blog but I will be adding many more features and programs that are going to enable you to sell your art which is going to enable you to keep making art. I spend most of my time emerged in the internet and social media. Now I am going to start focusing and sharing what I learn here on Art Palaver so that artists like yourself can be successful.
This will be for all creative types from visual artists, to musicians, to writers, photographers and anyone else creating art.
Like I said this is just a teaser. Stay tuned.
Related posts:
Dear Art Palaver,
I arrived at your blog Via the art Journal,via the ZAPP newsletter. I am an artist living in Denver and planning a move to Loveland in the near future.
I have noticed the lack of art sales for the past two years. I have had two galleries close. I have a big gallery in Japan that has bought my work for the past 15 years. Now no sales for the past year. I still have three galleries that show my work but no sales for the past year. A year ago, I was fortunate to recieve a big commission of twelve very large paintings, some as large as ten feet wide. The images are Colorado landscape with wildlife. I have nearly completed seven of the twelve. This will be my income for the next year.
This work has taken me out of the gallery loop. I have not spent much time on my website, which does not work well anyway.
I did have some activity which turned out to be a scam from Indonesia. This cost me $700 of my hard earned dollars.
I am a painter, but now I am working on sculpting. I think I could be good at it with some training. That is one of the reasons I am moving to Loveland.
I really look forward to learning from your blog about how to market my work online. My husband will be doing the actual work on the site, if that is called for. I am 66 years old and my husband is 72 years old. However, we are both continuing to learn. We have to or we won’t survive.
We are dependant on my income and social security and my large vegtable garden. We have not gone to shows as my work is too costly to sell at shows now. We could do that also. I do have giclee prints of my work . Prints are not selling now either.
I will stay tuned to your blog.
Thank you.
Best wishes,
Jacquie Vaux