Unless you are younger than about 35, there is a good chance you heard Ethel Merman’s voice booming out when you were reading that title! She was never one of my favorites, but she sure made that song famous! I prefer Harry Connick Jr’s version myself. Check them both out on Youtube. Once you finish reading this blog, of course! This seems to be the season of Art Shows! At the moment, I have art hanging in three different locations, and I will be adding another today, another next week, as well as another temporary show on the weekend. Last week I received the awesome news that a small painting of mine that was part of one of the ongoing shows was sold! I think that is the first time I have sold art without actually being there! What a thrill! Later today I will be attending a vernissage at a cultural center that I joined this year. One of my five-year goals is to have a solo show in a local gallery or museum. This one is a small cultural center, located in a beautiful spot on the river, in an area that used to be a manufacturing, blue-collar town and which is now part of the larger city near where I live. It is a relatively new building and houses some very nice exhibition spaces. It is not well known and is working hard to change that. The show which starts today is of works by members of the cultural center. It is titled “Noir et Blanc”. I just about fell out of my chair when I saw the call for submissions a few months ago, as I was in the process of preparing a submission for a solo show and, you guessed it, that was the exact title and theme I was working on! I was devastated! All that work preparing first the concept, then the art, then the submission documents, down the drain! And of course, even though I am fascinated with back and white and have painted several pieces in various media, now I wouldn’t be able to present a similarly themed exhibition anywhere in this area for several years without being considered a copycat. Even if I had the idea first! Thankfully, I had also been working on an “alternate project” (that was actually its name at the time) so I forgot about the Black & White project and worked on the other one. Unfortunately, the “alternate project” was rejected when I submitted it, but I am not done with that one! I believe it is a great project, and it would have really been well suited for this particular location. It is original, and fun, and I will find a venue for it, just give me time! I am anxious to see the artwork in this Noir et Blanc exhibition. It should be interesting to see how different artists, using different media, have interpreted the Black and White theme. I will also be making an effort to network with local artists. This will be the first chance for me to put into practice a lot of the networking techniques I have been reading about during Covid lockdowns. I am not a naturally outgoing person, so it isn’t easy for me. I much prefer to communicate in writing; it is so easy, you can pause and think or look up just the right word, or go back and edit something that came out wrong. But I have learned a lot about the importance and value of connecting face to face with people, and hopefully, some of it will manifest itself at the right time! This weekend is another show I have been preparing for a few weeks now. It is a Christmas Market so there will be lots of vendors that are not artists. It is my first such participation so I have low expectations. I just hope I will come back with fewer items than I brought and that more people will know that I exist! And you never know who you will meet!
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