Besides the Del Mano Gallery what are the best galleries to sell wood art. I am interested in Chicago, New York Naples St Paul Boston Hawaii Santa Fe etc..
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Looking for galleries
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are you talking about Chicago ,Indiana
while you are driving to Santa Fe will you be driving thru. Ky or will you drive Route 66
I am not driving anywhere. I am simply contacting galleries.
Ray, You are in a great wood art gallery in Hawaii already. The high season will start this month and go through April. May through Oct. are always iffy. You could check out Simply Wood on Oahu. As for delMano you may want to have some private chats with folks who have work there.
Kerry, are you sure that you got the right name ?
Ray Hampton, Yes I have the right name. R. Muniak, R. stands for Ray. So I was not talking to you. Sorry for any confusion.
My experience with galleries (and other places) has been that you really need to start with a face-to-face meet in their space. Two categories of reasons:
- To find out what sort of display they'll put your pieces in. If their primarily 2D, they will probably have difficulty displaying a 3D piece appropriately. If you're making 'museum pieces', do they have a protected case for them? What kind of traffic do they have? What is their security like? Overall, does the facility look like someplace you want your pieces in?
- The bigger issue is to have more than fifteen minutes talking with the owner. What is he/she like? Do they seem trustworthy (not easy to figure out, but you should be able to get a gut feeling)? Are their terms clear cut and in writing? What is their payment process for sold items?
These aren't all, but they are the ones that every time I've NOT verified them, I've had problems extracting myself and my pieces.
If you're doing consignment, be VERY careful about the split. For close to ten years, I've been very successful at places I've got a 70/30 agreement. All of those at 60/40 have been terrible.
- To find out what sort of display they'll put your pieces in. If their primarily 2D, they will probably have difficulty displaying a 3D piece appropriately. If you're making 'museum pieces', do they have a protected case for them? What kind of traffic do they have? What is their security like? Overall, does the facility look like someplace you want your pieces in?
- The bigger issue is to have more than fifteen minutes talking with the owner. What is he/she like? Do they seem trustworthy (not easy to figure out, but you should be able to get a gut feeling)? Are their terms clear cut and in writing? What is their payment process for sold items?
These aren't all, but they are the ones that every time I've NOT verified them, I've had problems extracting myself and my pieces.
If you're doing consignment, be VERY careful about the split. For close to ten years, I've been very successful at places I've got a 70/30 agreement. All of those at 60/40 have been terrible.
thank you for setting me straight
Walt,
Or experience is different as far as the consignment split. My wife and I are in 6 galleries here in the Midwest, all 60/40. Rare so far for us to find any 70/30's. All so far in several years have been great to deal with and have provided good sales. This might be due in part to what you stressed: interview the galleries and YOU choose who you want to represent your work.
rmuniak, looking for galleries requires looking (read real work). Get on the internet and research, yes, but also get in the car and drive, seek out, interview, hit the streets. We use going to art fairs to do our research. Want an easy fix? Ain't none. Don't wanna do the work? Fogetit. Successful artists have paid their dues.
Or experience is different as far as the consignment split. My wife and I are in 6 galleries here in the Midwest, all 60/40. Rare so far for us to find any 70/30's. All so far in several years have been great to deal with and have provided good sales. This might be due in part to what you stressed: interview the galleries and YOU choose who you want to represent your work.
rmuniak, looking for galleries requires looking (read real work). Get on the internet and research, yes, but also get in the car and drive, seek out, interview, hit the streets. We use going to art fairs to do our research. Want an easy fix? Ain't none. Don't wanna do the work? Fogetit. Successful artists have paid their dues.
No disrespect
No disrespect, and I know you are trying to help, but, I have been making and selling woodart in many forms for 30 years. I have been in galleries around this country and been very sucessful at it. I am now in retirement and doing these pins for fun. I just want your help in selecting a few outstanding and credible galleries that you might know of. That is what this forum is for. Sort of like "letting your fingers doing walking". In the past this forum has been most helpful. I have found a nice gallery in Hawaii by using it. I can't drive to Hawaii. The galleries in my area I have visited already. Please just answer my original question.. THank You
No disrespect, and I know you are trying to help, but, I have been making and selling woodart in many forms for 30 years. I have been in galleries around this country and been very sucessful at it. I am now in retirement and doing these pins for fun. I just want your help in selecting a few outstanding and credible galleries that you might know of. That is what this forum is for. Sort of like "letting your fingers doing walking". In the past this forum has been most helpful. I have found a nice gallery in Hawaii by using it. I can't drive to Hawaii. The galleries in my area I have visited already. Please just answer my original question.. THank You
"When I hand a dog a bone, I don't want to know how it tastes".
Galleries are pretty easy to search on Google if you don't like the discussion here.
Galleries are pretty easy to search on Google if you don't like the discussion here.
Wood Galleries
To answer your question more directly, here in Chicago the only gallery that I know of that accepts woodturners currently is the Vale Gallery in downtown Chicago. Several prominent woodturners are featured in their current exhibit. Good luck.
To answer your question more directly, here in Chicago the only gallery that I know of that accepts woodturners currently is the Vale Gallery in downtown Chicago. Several prominent woodturners are featured in their current exhibit. Good luck.
Thank You
Thank you everyone who gave me good suggestions. To the other people who did not directly answer my question I ask you why don't you just let it go. If you can't answer the question don't participate. This forum is there to help our members. I see it time and again in these types of blogs people go off on tangents that have nothing to do with the topic at hand . All it does is slows down the process and hinders the questioner from finding a quick and satisfying solution. So please in my case in the future if you don't have an answer (to the question) don't respond... Thank You
Thank you everyone who gave me good suggestions. To the other people who did not directly answer my question I ask you why don't you just let it go. If you can't answer the question don't participate. This forum is there to help our members. I see it time and again in these types of blogs people go off on tangents that have nothing to do with the topic at hand . All it does is slows down the process and hinders the questioner from finding a quick and satisfying solution. So please in my case in the future if you don't have an answer (to the question) don't respond... Thank You
The way I see it is you should be doing the work on your own, look for your own galleries. This is a discussion board not a FAQ page. What you consider to be slowing you down and hindering the process is likely informative and interesting to other people. If forums like this operated in the way you requested then they wither and die from lack of use and participation. In your profile picture you look so happy, in your post you sound so miserable. Why the difference?
Trying to help? I'd like to think that I actually am helping someone. Maybe not you as you indicated, no problem and I don't feel at all disrespected. The thread topic: "looking for galleries". This is a forum and many people, some not even turners, have a peek. Some come here from a generic search. They are looking for help in the same ballpark for your more specific question. I offer some insight from personal experience that might save someone from disappointment or unrealistic expectations. Forum implies an open-aired, put-it-out-there-and-see-who-what-responds. Don't like the responses? Why don't you let others take what they can from it. Once it enters the forum, it's not a personal thing anymore.
P.S.- If you get your feelings hurt by some of this feedback to your question, then you are ill-prepared for the rejections from galleries that will not accept your work. They are an inevitable part of growing as a turner/artist.
P.S.- If you get your feelings hurt by some of this feedback to your question, then you are ill-prepared for the rejections from galleries that will not accept your work. They are an inevitable part of growing as a turner/artist.