Well, a busy couple of days for art. Yesterday I showed the work-ups for the art marketing mailer to Terry Johnson that is to promote his ceramics primarily but does showcase a couple of his two dimensional pieces as well. We made a couple of minor adjustments and today I ordered the final version. They should be here in three days. Terry asked me to pick up ten boxes of Raku clay for him to, as I will be heading over to the coast with Martha on Thursday – she returns tonight from Texas – and will be picking up some clay for her from the pottery store over there. I’m happy to do that for Terry.
Also, this morning I was successful in getting my art News Network channel at Livestream.com to work in a test run. I’m so glad that I got that figured out and working properly. So, that this coming month I should be able to live stream the First Friday at Two Rivers Gallery and the Second Saturday event at the Cashmere Arts and Activities Center. Before Martha left Texas I was able to tell I got it working and she was very pleased about that as well. Once I get the first live event successfully live streamed on location, then it will be the next step to connect to the art News Network by mobile phone and be able to do a roving reported kind of thing for these events going to the different venues and showing what each is exhibiting etc…
Having completed the mornings tasks of ordering post cards for Terry and getting the live stream thing going right, it was time to pick up Artie Bowman the director of the gallery at the Cashmere Arts and Activities Center, to go around downtown Cashmere and do the ‘meet and greet, walk and talk.’ This so we could promote the gallery, sell some business memberships and add space for in the bi-monthly news letter of the gallery and get other locations to participate in the Cashmere Second Saturday events, which would entail staying open till 8pm on those Saturdays.
We were so please that right of the bat Gary at Eva’s Antique Mall bought a $100.00 membership and gave us some readymade copy for the newsletter that will go in six bi-monthly Newsletters. We really liked the Antique Mall and were very impressed with the quality merchandise that he and the 26 or 28 participating vendors had in the store. Gary was a real pleasure to talk to and was very interested in the Second Saturday event and was more than happy to put up a couple of easels and display some additional artwork.
After meeting with Gary we stopped at another co-op antique store up the street and met with a fellow named John …didn’t get his last name, who was also interested in all of the above. Then on to the Cashmere Cottage Yarn store. There we talked with Jan Evans who also was very interested and wanted to finalize any plan with her partner Judith Jorgensen. We are really looking forward to getting them onboard with Second Saturday and with a business or individual membership to the gallery. This is really starting to take shape we thought, as we continued on to the Junkyard Gypsies antique gallery.
Junkyard Gypsies is another place that would be great to have participate in Second Saturday. It’s on Mission Street, where a lot of new trendy places have popped-up and are continuing to pop-up. There we met with Christy who also was very interested and who spotted a nice picture of her own daughter taken at the CAAC gallery in one of our Newsletter photos. We couldn’t have planed that better. She was really nice and had some very interesting stuff in there. When Martha is back in town and we have some time I really want to take her there. Christy recommended we try to catch the owners of the Smoke Blossom restaurant next door as they are in the process of moving in and are planning to stay open on Saturday and Friday evenings.
After meeting with Christy and checking out Smoke Blossom (no one there) we went to Snap Dragon Coffee shop which is also there on Mission St. right next to the Horan Estates Wineries that is already supporting the gallery. There we spoke with the owner Courtney Schill, who seemed very excited about all the marketing possibilities with the gallery, the newsletter, the up-coming web presence of the gallery and the Second Saturday plans. She also shared that she could not only stay open for second Saturday, but that she is planning to have a mobile coffee trailer down at the river on Sundays to sell coffee and food items to the river rafters as they get out of the river at the park. We, will definitely want to have our maps of Second Saturday participants and gallery brochures there for those folks to pick-up so they know there is more to do in Cashmere than just get out of the water and head back to Leavenworth. Courtney was so nice, as we were just handing out some materials Barneys in Cashmere, she called to let me know I had left some wine soaked wood B-B-Q pellets on her counter. It was a pleasure to go back and pick those up later. I’m really looking forward to using those the next time I B-B-Q at home.
Our last stop of the day was at the Country Boy’s Southern style B-B-Q. We gave Anitra, the owner copies of our materials and she showed us where we could place our brochures and the maps of the Second Saturday locations when those are ready. Thank you Anitra, we look forward to trying some of your great smelling B-B-Q the next time we are in town for lunch.
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