Awesome Art Sale-You Name the Price

Still obviously on that moving purge thing I talked about earlier in the year,  so when I was tripping over leftover artwork at the gallery’s storage area this idea sprang to mind...

Not the actual storage area for Artspace Gallery 

but gosh darn it is pretty close. You get the idea

It inspired me to have the first and probably only...

Graphic Design Credit John MacLellan

That’s right, we are selling artwork that has been kicking around that storage area for years.  It was not claimed by the artists after their shows came down.   This is either going to be a really neat event or big headache…time will tell!

Why the headache?  Well because trying to get all this artwork sorted and out there has taken a bit of planning and cleaning.  On the really neat side, this will create much needed room in our storage, bring people into our gallery and we have no sunk costs.   So, we thought it would be a great opportunity try something different.  

Isn’t that kinda our job as artists anyway?  

In this case a good read called, the Four Key Qualities of Pay-What-As-You-Wish Strategy. inspired me to try this experiment in commerce for Artspace Gallery 

How does that work? Well hopefully people will read about how art is priced and then if they are really interested in a piece, they will be willing to 

1. put some $ in a box

 and 

2. fill out a short survey explaining why they paid the amount they did.  

Then it is their art to take home!

We will see if practice follows theory tomorrow at the RVA Earthday Celebrations.  Come on out to Planet Zero  and Artspace galleries starting at 11am 

Wish me luck!!

Very special thanks to Micheal Pierce for the awesome  FB-like page, Jessica Sims for inventorying and poster making, as well as John MaClelland for the cool logo