Comments on: Art Marketing Action: Organize a Marketing Salon

By: Attack it head on — Art Biz Blog

Attack it head on — Art Biz Blog — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:38:24 +0000

[...] There’s a lot of powerful energy in a group–even a bunch of artists that you run into on a blog. When you encounter a bump in the road, [...]

By: Artist Salons: 6 elements for a thriving group, part 2 — Art Biz Blog

Artist Salons: 6 elements for a thriving group, part 2 — Art Biz Blog — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:25:52 +0000

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By: Lynda Lehmann

Lynda Lehmann — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:52:26 +0000

What a wonderful idea, Alyson! I and my painting group have long talked about staying together, as we are such a mutually reinforcing group.

I’ll retweet this, if I can figure out how to do it, and also send it to my art friends. We’d talked about showing and marketing together, but the salon idea gives it a new dimension. Thanks!

By: Artist Salons: 6 elements for a thriving group, part 1 — Art Biz Blog

Artist Salons: 6 elements for a thriving group, part 1 — Art Biz Blog — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:47:03 +0000

[...] yesterday’s Art Marketing Action newsletter and podcast, I encouraged you to start an art-marketing salon. Over the next two days, I’m going to share [...]

By: Alyson Stanfield

Alyson Stanfield — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:04:57 +0000

Judith: Boy, Iove hearing stories about how I bring artists together. I don’t always hear them, so thank you for sharing your experience.

Dean: Jeff is great, so I’m sure it’s a wonderful group. Kudos to all for keeping it up!

Philip: Curious. Do you have that kind of support as a faculty member? Or do you have to find it elsewhere?

Patrice: Rah rah!

Debra: I know of several salons that kept meeting after the 10 meetings. I wonder how that works: if it’s just as structured? It may be that one person is in charge of a topic for each meeting. Follow this blog for the next couple of days and some ideas might pop into your mind.

By: Debra Cortese

Debra Cortese — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:34:22 +0000

After re-reading this and comments from others, I’m realizing how valuable it can be for the Miami Art Marketing Salon to regroup and meet at least monthly. The creativity, fellowship and collaborative energy of our Salon was not only inspiring, it was powerful! I’ll let you know when we get back in the flow

By: Patrice Federspiel

Patrice Federspiel — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:49:08 +0000

Artists helping other artists serves to squash the old mindset of having to do everything alone, and the fear of competition that goes along with it. The power of community is fierce. We don’t build a business alone, it truly does take a team … and what better way to be part of a team than to help build one.

By: Philip Koch

Philip Koch — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:55:02 +0000

Alyson hits a key nail on the head- excessive isolation in the studio. While we need alone time to get our work done, lots of time, it comes at a cost. It’s true of both creative problems and career problems. For many artists some sort of “salon” idea could be very helpful.

By: Dean McCready

Dean McCready — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:19:06 +0000

Hi Alyson,

I have been involved with an art marketing group that Jeff Ball leads for over a year now. It is very beneficial to everyone in the group to get out of their individual studios and share ideas. We meet once a month and switch out meeting at each others studio spaces. Some artists have large studios and some artists have smaller ones. It all works out each time and is a lot of fun.

Thank you for sharing this concept to the other artist in your blog and newsletter.

Dean McCready

By: Judith Monroe

Judith Monroe — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:47:58 +0000

Another artist & I had the urge to start your art salon groups a couple years ago here in Sacramento, CA. We started with two separate groups then distilled it to a tight group of six Art Gals who meet every other week for lunch to hash out art & business ideas.

Now several of us interact much more often than that, renting space at the same locations, doing art festivals together, visiting museums, whatever. These gals are some of my closest friends and most trusted confidants, helping to point me in the right direction, keeping me motivated when times are tough, celebrating with me when things all come together.

I just helped auction off one of my gals’ artworks for our local PBS station on air and it was a “bell-ringer,” bringing in the stated value or more. I wouldn’t be enjoying the level of success that I am now without this salon of artists to support me. Thanks Alyson for helping us to launch this!