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Jill Bernard

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From: Uptown Minneapolis
Registered: Feb 4, 2003
Art on a Budget!
Posted: Jun 16, 2003 11:59 AM
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Where are the best places to buy art under $50? I just recommended the Soo Gallery in another thread. Any other hot picks?


jaime longoria

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Re: Art on a Budget!
Posted: Jun 16, 2003 2:44 PM
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What about here?

jaime

X

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Posted: Jun 16, 2003 5:32 PM
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Jill Bernard

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From: Uptown Minneapolis
Registered: Feb 4, 2003
Re: Art on a Budget!
Posted: Jun 17, 2003 1:11 PM
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Awesome!

I was just thinking, wouldn't it be great, too, to organize a crawl of all the coffee shops that show art? Fun!

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Posted: Jun 17, 2003 4:18 PM
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Lauren DeSteno

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From: Minneapolis, MN
Registered: Oct 19, 2001
Re: Art on a Budget!
Posted: Jun 17, 2003 4:58 PM
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Ooohhh. neat-o idea.

(although, on second thought, there are sooooo many art crawls now...I wonder if a better use of resources would be to help promote an existing crawl that you believe in? I'm not trying to be a killjoy here, just practical.)

lauren

Lauren DeSteno

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From: Minneapolis, MN
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Re: Art on a Budget!
Posted: Jun 17, 2003 5:01 PM
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Actually, I did see a lot of great art under $50 at this year's Art-A-Whirl. Perhaps something to do would be to organize a group of artists willing to sell their work at budget prices during AAW - sounds a good idea for MM, don't ya think?

OR... something else that worked well for my friend was to have a "Pre-Art-A-Whirl Fire Sale" where she sold her work at low prices to make room for the new stuff she was going to hang at AAW.

jaime longoria

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Re: Art on a Budget!
Posted: Jun 17, 2003 5:05 PM
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> I was just thinking, wouldn't it be great, too, to
> organize a crawl of all the coffee shops that show
> art? Fun!

>
> That's a great idea!! Do you suppose there's any way
> to do a mnartists theme thing too? Like, what if the
> coffee shops in "the crawl" had .. AAahhh yeh..
> performers, like you, Jill, and musicians/bands and
> artists all from here!!?? That would bring more
> attention to this web site.. hopefully, bring more
> artists and entertainers to the web site,.. and, of
> course, more attention to the coffee shops and
> artists and entertainers at them. Now, you can't
> tell me City Pages will ignore THAT! It might be
> just the thing to get the ball rolling. The only
> catch is.. mnartists.org is part of The Walker.. so
> it would probably be their call..

Do not cut yourself off from the possibility!

Propose it to Colin. It is a great idea!!!!!

It propels the creation of an interlocking hyper and real space community. MM would have loved to come up with the idea.

It fits the activist way of thinking.

go for it

jimmy r longoria

Ray Rolfe

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From: Northeast Minneapolis
Registered: Sep 5, 2001
Re: Art on a Budget!
Posted: Jun 19, 2003 12:47 AM
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Say, whats your middle name Jimmy?

Sam Spiczka

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From: Sartell, MN
Registered: Jul 20, 2001
Re: Art on a Budget!
Posted: Jun 22, 2003 10:10 PM
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I really don't know if this is the place to post this but I had to pick a room, so here goes...

I had an idea a while back for ArtCards. Deceptively similar to baseball cards, they have the name and picture of a work of art on them with info about the work or artist on the back. They could also be thought of as pocket art, because you can't carry around a 2000 pound sculpture every where you go (or something like that). They could be very affordable, a buck or two per card, and if enough artists got in on it, they could even be actively traded or collected. They could be dispensed in those Art-O-Matic machines or sold by the pack in various galleries.

I just make mine by hand right now, but if started for real, they could be printed professionally. I was even thinking this could be a good job for Ray. Start your own little Art-Topps company, eventually branch out to new cities, who knows?! I'll attack a photo of some of mine. I just made some more to sell at the Bridging the Arts Festival. $2 a piece or three for $5.

Any thoughts?

Sam

Lauren DeSteno

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From: Minneapolis, MN
Registered: Oct 19, 2001
Re: Art on a Budget!
Posted: Jun 23, 2003 12:25 AM
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Yes, Sam - very cool idea. (I love Art-O-Mat!) I think I saw a deck of cards created by local artists and they were really cool! I believe that decks are sold in the Walker Art Center gift shop.

http://www.walkerart.org/shop/

I'd give you a better link, but the walker site seems to be down right now.

Lauren

Sam Spiczka

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Re: Art on a Budget!
Posted: Jun 23, 2003 12:37 AM
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Figures someone would have already thought of something similar. I can't get to the site either, but are they playing cards with artworks on them (also an interesting idea if not), greeting cards, or exactly as I described my ArtCards?

To take it one step further, the cards could be sold in randomly selected packs of 3-5 or so. If you bought multiple packs, there would inevitably be duplicates which you could then trade with a friend for one of their duplicates, and so on.

Sam

Lauren DeSteno

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From: Minneapolis, MN
Registered: Oct 19, 2001
Re: Art on a Budget!
Posted: Jun 23, 2003 12:48 AM
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Ohhh ohhh yeah! I like the trading and collecting idea! I would love to start doing this for real - I'm visiting my printer tomorrow, he might be able to give me an idea about what such a venture might cost. I'd love to help - photograph, layout/design, whatever. You could sell the packs at Art-a-Whirl and ArtCrawl, shops and galleryies, etc. and here's how you work it - Artists who help sell packs get a percentage, and x% of the proceeds from the sale of the cards goes to a fabulous charity or non-profit organization. Whaddayathink?

Promotion, profit, and philanthropy!

Lauren

Also - my sister has some funky "People Cards" from NYC - I think maybe she got them from a friend. The cards basically have point-and-shoot-in-your-living-room-style photographs of people on the front, and they have names and quirky answers to questions on the back. Just normal folks. I really liked the idea.

Lauren DeSteno

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From: Minneapolis, MN
Registered: Oct 19, 2001
Re: Art on a Budget!
Posted: Jun 23, 2003 12:49 AM
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(BTW, Sam, have I told you that you RULE? This might be the best idea this crew has come up with yet.)

Sam Spiczka

Posts: 1,671
From: Sartell, MN
Registered: Jul 20, 2001
Re: Art on a Budget!
Posted: Jun 23, 2003 1:00 AM
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Hey thanks, Lauren! I enjoy throwing ideas up against this wall and seeing what sticks.

I had thought that the various art crawls would be terrific venues to kick them off. Each artist could give away a certain number of cards when you visit their studio (to prime the pump so to speak) with others on sale at info booths, etc.

If you could get an estimate on printing costs that would help in the thinking immensely. Hopefully it's not prohibitive. And charities are good.

When Mandy was at college, the small town had cards printed of the local cops (there were only six) and gave them out to the students. Perhaps it was to help them know who would be busting them for various drug possessions, I don't know...

Sam

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