Finally! A Post About My Show at Quirk!

I promised pics from my show at Quirk Gallery in April, so here goes.  I know, it's 2 months later.  Explanation: the day I was installing my show at Quirk, Mark and I were on the phone back and forth with our real esate agent bidding on a house!  We ended up with the winning bid, and closed on our beautiful old house - a Craftsman Bungalow built in 1918! - a month later.  Since then it's been balls-to-the-wall with packing, moving, unpacking, renovations, etc.  I got my new studio up and running just in time to make a few extra last minute pieces for the Ocrafolk Festival on Ocracoke Island the first weekend of June.  Sadly, that trip got canceled due to a tropical strorm, but still took up a good deal of time.  Nothing like everything happening at once!

So anyway, here are some photos of new work as well as show installation!

 

Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA

 

 

 

A peek through the door at installation.

 SeaPod Wall Installation going up!

 

 

 

View from the front of the gallery.

 

Left Wall : Neckpieces

 

Right Wall : SeaPod Wall Installation Piece, Reef Jewelry, Seapod Rings

 

Center Table : Neckpieces, SeaPod Jewelry

 

 

 

Me with my work!

 

 

 

SeaPod Rings

 

 

 

Cone Cluster Neckpiece

 

 

 

Collected SeaPods Neckpiece

 

 

 

Pod Cluster Neckpiece

 

 

 

 

Pod Scarf Neckpiece

 

 

 

 

Chain of Pods Neckpiece

 

 

 

I had a great time with this show.  It was a ton of hard work and long nights leading up to the show, but totally worth it to see eveything all up and together!  I'm working on setting up other venues, but I would love some suggestions of places to show, and I would love to hear your feedback on my newest work!  Thanks for taking the time to stop by and check everything out!  More to come soon, I hope!  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reef-tastic

The new Reef pieces are now in my etsy shop!  Yay!

Annnnnnnnnd... I just found out that I got accepted to have a booth at the Watermelon Festival here in Richmond in August.  Oh my, slight bit of panic there since I had applied back in April and still hadn't heard anything (and technically I still haven't - I just saw that my check had been cashed so I emailed the people and they said nothing had been sent out yet, but yes, if my check went through then I was in) and I had assumed that it was a no-go.  Way to go with that, guys.  She also said it was a new system they were trying this year, and it had some major kinks, so hopefully I can chalk it up to that and hope that the whole thing isn't a disorganized mess.  A friend did tell me, after I had applied for this by the way, that she would highly recommend doing only juried shows, which I will probably agree with.  But as my first outdoor festival, I'll be happy if I make the booth fee and setups costs back.  So here we go.  I have so much to do, and I'm a little overwhelmed right now.  But I will get on a schedule and make it happ'n cap'n! 

I found some info about setting up for festivals which I will share right here:

What Makes a Craft Show Successful?

A Newbie's Guide to Tents for Craft Shows and Festivals

Free EBook : Prearing for Art and Craft Show Success

So let me know if you have any suggestions or resources.  And I will share what I learn in this whole process.  I'm sure it will be crazy.  But hopefully in a good way.