The La Crosse Society of Arts and Crafts provides exhibit space for our members at several local businesses. Each artist or a group of artists exhibit every two months with some exceptions. The exhibiting artist are listed in the LIVE! section of the La Crosse Tribune each month. Each gallery has a chairperson who assists the artist with scheduling and any questions you may have. They in turn report to the gallery chair. The new gallery chairperson is Melody Rasmussen and you can contact her at 608-399-1168 or email her at: getart@centurytel.net
Important Notice: No artist will talk to the gallery managers direct. You must contact the gallery chair, they will talk on your behalf. See Guidelines below!
Gallery #1: La Crosse Public Library, 800 Main St., La Crosse, WI Main Branch
Hours: Monday through Thursday, 9 to 9 Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 9 to 5
Location: Second Floor to the right of the main stairway
Exhibit - Chairperson: Nancy and Jim Termam
Contact the Termans about exhibiting in 2010, a new decade a new opportunity to showcase your work.
Gallery #2: ART CLEARING HOUSE WEB SITE STARTED
The Society has received information about a new web site, http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.artistworkshops.net%252F, which is designed to be a free clearing house for announcements and publicity about classes, workshops, and seminars. According to the creators, Margaret and Robert Stermer-Cox, of Ocean Shores, Washington, "This web site was born of the frustration of not having many low-cost places to post art workshop notices. By asking artists, organizations, and workshop (sponsors) to post their own announcements, we are able to do this service for free."
For more information, contact:
Margaret (Peggy) Stermer-Cox
PO Box 1864
Ocean Shores, WA 98569
360-289-0790
http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.artistworkshops.net%252F
http://ssomail.charter.net/do/mail/message/mailto?to=webmaster%40artistworkshops.net
GALLERY # 3: GALLERY LA CROSSE
The La Crosse Society of Arts and Crafts has exhibit space at Gallery La Crosse, 320 Main St., for Society members who sign up for monthly shows. This is ideal for members who prefer not to rent space permanently, or who want to try out the gallery experience. For information, contact Pam Lee, watercolorpainter@gmail.com.
1. Put your best work on display. Your work is the first impression of you the artist they see.
2. Send out postcards to friends, family and past clients. These are your best customers. Friends may bring a friend who has not seen your work, family can spread the word, and past clients are usually looking for more of your works to display.
3. Have an artists statement/biography a brief paragraph is fine.
4. Have an image of one of your pieces that may be put into the paper.
Good Luck!
1. Become a member.
2. Contact the Gallery Chairperson, or the chair of a gallery you want to exhibit at.
3. If you are a new member, we have set aside the end of each year for you to have an opportunity to exhibit
4. It is the intention of the galleries chairs to give all artists an opportunity to exhibit, because of this each gallery space has a rotation of 2 years. How does this work. If you sign up for Wells Fargo, you can exhibit there every 2 years. If you sign up for 4th floor at Gundersen, you can still exhibit on 5th floor, each gallery has a 2 year rotation. Exception, new members have the end of year exhibit opportunity, or if a member has to cancel their exhibit, the gallery chair will contact members to see if they can step in, here it does not matter if you have exhibited just recently, our goal is to keep our galleries full.
5. Each gallery chair has a list of do's and don'ts for their gallery, they will keep you informed of these and any current changes. The gallery space we use is part of a business and we have to respect their space and rules. Do Not contact the gallery yourself. Go through the gallery chairperson. There will be a penalty for talking to the gallery without first contacting your gallery chair.
6. Make sure you have a release on file. This is available through any gallery chairperson.
For printable Gallery Information and inventory form click here.