Procession West, and the second exhibition that spun off from it, which is called Ag2... have been successful beyond my expectations. My friend and collaborator Rob Michiel and I first put this show together back in 2012 and started making submissions to galleries throughout Western Canada. We were accepted for three shows in 2013 and 2014 at the Art Gallery of Regina, McMullen Gallery here in Edmonton, and then the Spruce Grove Art Gallery. After these shows wrapped up I got a little lazy and pre-occupied and didn't get around to sending out any submission more packages.
In early 2015 I got back on my horse and put in a concerted effort to send out additional submission packages. Over the course of the next year, as deadlines came and went, I sent out about 50 submission packages. Some went to galleries that previously rejected us, while others went to new ones. We still continue to get some rejections, like just the other day when I got a rejection notice from a gallery in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia. But, we also got a lot of acceptances. So much so that we had to peel off the Ag2 show and cover some of the overlap. In addition to the original three exhibitions, we now have NINE more, for a total of 12 exhibitions. We're still in the running for a couple more so it is possible this count might increase further beyond a dozen.
Some of these galleries pay an exhibition fee and some do not. All allow us to offer our prints for sale. None cover shipping expenses so we are obligated to drive these prints around from place to place. Over the next few months these prints and their shipping crates will see a lot of miles. The exhibition fees have covered most of the cost of our materials. If we can sell a few prints, we sill start to cover the transportation costs. This is not about making money... it is a labor of love.
We started out this year showing the Ag2 show at Leighton Art Centre in Calgary as part of the Exposure Festival. Today I delivered three crates of different prints, the Procession West exhibition to the Okotoks Art Gallery. The show will be installed this week, with the opening coming up next weekend. Here is the official invitation...
Anyone that is in the Calgary area next weekend is encouraged to stop by for the opening and check out the show. Both Rob and I expect to be in attendance. Shortly after that I have to travel back to Calgary to pick up the images from the Ag2 show at Leighton, and move them on to the Leble Mansion Gallery in Pincher Creek, for a show that will start at the end of March. Over the course of the next year or so the various framed photographs in their various shipping crates will also travel to Armstrong and Summerland, then to Invermere. Later there will be shows in Saskatoon, Port Moody and Fort McMurray. Once this project has run its course I hope to start all over again with a couple of solo exhibitions. I am already in the process of image selection and printing for two solo projects and will start making submission of these in about a year.
In early 2015 I got back on my horse and put in a concerted effort to send out additional submission packages. Over the course of the next year, as deadlines came and went, I sent out about 50 submission packages. Some went to galleries that previously rejected us, while others went to new ones. We still continue to get some rejections, like just the other day when I got a rejection notice from a gallery in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia. But, we also got a lot of acceptances. So much so that we had to peel off the Ag2 show and cover some of the overlap. In addition to the original three exhibitions, we now have NINE more, for a total of 12 exhibitions. We're still in the running for a couple more so it is possible this count might increase further beyond a dozen.
Some of these galleries pay an exhibition fee and some do not. All allow us to offer our prints for sale. None cover shipping expenses so we are obligated to drive these prints around from place to place. Over the next few months these prints and their shipping crates will see a lot of miles. The exhibition fees have covered most of the cost of our materials. If we can sell a few prints, we sill start to cover the transportation costs. This is not about making money... it is a labor of love.
We started out this year showing the Ag2 show at Leighton Art Centre in Calgary as part of the Exposure Festival. Today I delivered three crates of different prints, the Procession West exhibition to the Okotoks Art Gallery. The show will be installed this week, with the opening coming up next weekend. Here is the official invitation...
Anyone that is in the Calgary area next weekend is encouraged to stop by for the opening and check out the show. Both Rob and I expect to be in attendance. Shortly after that I have to travel back to Calgary to pick up the images from the Ag2 show at Leighton, and move them on to the Leble Mansion Gallery in Pincher Creek, for a show that will start at the end of March. Over the course of the next year or so the various framed photographs in their various shipping crates will also travel to Armstrong and Summerland, then to Invermere. Later there will be shows in Saskatoon, Port Moody and Fort McMurray. Once this project has run its course I hope to start all over again with a couple of solo exhibitions. I am already in the process of image selection and printing for two solo projects and will start making submission of these in about a year.
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