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On Saturday, March 4th, we had our first art show in 365 million years!

The Pre-Pre-Show

Let me shock you all by revealing my biggest secret: I have an anxiety disorder (several disembodied violins sting in the distance), and I have traditionally been quite a mess before any and all events. This time I was a CHAMPION. While I lost a day to eCommerce updates and solving point-of-sale (POS). It felt like being abducted by aliens, waking up with my clothes on backward and confused, yet an eCommerce solution emerged from the darkness. I even made my first sale and got to practice the new WIX POS feature that used ApplePay. It’s like magic! I also learned how to cast my iPad to a TV (ANY TV) so I can now PAINT LIVE. It’s Like magic! I am magical!

The Pre-Show

My Prophetic Entry from the Day of the Event:

"This is a pop-up show in Riverwest. At Company Brewing, which used to be Stonefly, and I do not remember what it was before that. I suppose Riverwest is finally beginning to gentrify too…? Hahaha I mean it is like so far from that end goal, but I guess I would have scoffed at Brady street becoming bougie too. So whatever I guess? Riverwest and I have a lot of history! I grew up there, not physically, but artistically. I lived there from college until sobriety! I am anxious about any history I have with this neighborhood, but overall it feels like coming full circle. Fun fact: my mother and I had a celebratory meal at that location when I graduated from college!"

Follow-Up: Riverwest is not at risk of getting too classy too soon. Just to breeze past it real quick once: there was some drama, because #Riverwest but we handled it because #sober. I don’t want to bother with it any longer but alcoholism is a disease.

Three Days Later…

I’m back bitches. OOF I am tired. It was truly a pop-up show, we arrived at 9:50-ish, I was late, but they didn’t let us set up right away so I win technically.

My absolutely unwanted and completely uninteresting event review:

Upon entering I met our event host first, DJ Tory, then I met the sound guy (don’t remember your name so you need to email us). I did not know the set-up of the venue beforehand so we worked together to wing it. I then met the artists of the event:

TDogg is a collage artist and skateboarder. Alan is a figure painter, and his friend Matt is a fellow digital artist. Brandon does psychedelic optical illusions. JBirD is an illustrator and muralist. I also met Luke, his branding preceded him, and he aims to create his own multi-surface paint (doll repaint people will want to pay attention to this). I didn’t meet YetiAlready, but I saw their merchandise, very professional. There was a group of film grads, who showed their debut film, “Mousetrap” It was good! Better than Breen. I tried to tag Jay Bauman but he is too good to be tagged on Instagram (he’s a Twitterling).

The Show

...Was AWESOME! I met new friends and I learned about new artists. There was an independent film, a few DJs, and the five of us artists. The pace of the event was excellent, every time we got bored with one another a new show segment was introduced. I suppose I should be disappointed that there were not many people, and sales were low-- but in all honesty, I was SO RELIEVED. Two or three groups came! It was our first time in public in over 57 years. Secondarily I should be mortified for spilling my delicious *expensive* kombucha all over my own pictures. Doing so was not planned, so I decided to gift the ferment-reeking artworks to the event staff and participants. Seriously a LOVELY bunch of people! I will hopefully link all of them here in various ways. Stand by.

Up Next

I know of specific opportunities coming up in Riverwest* and Bayview*, they are vendor-oriented. We will probably sit this year out because I want to wait until next year in order to build up our 3D object inventory. Kind of need that seed money too, join the Patreon that I am updating again! For now, all I can sell is my art and time. And my farts.

I have made stickers and prints!!! Show prepping exhausted me to the point that I am completely disassociated from my art right now (typical) so I don't feel emotionally excited at all but I intellectually know I should be! Obligatory yay!

I am still also seeking guinea pigs for my experiments, you get a free design or art service from me and I get to practice client relations. If interested in participating please fill out this form.

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March: Ostara Celebrations

April: FalconFlea*

May: Hexie Zine #3 (NSFW Content Warning)

June: Bay View Gallery Night*

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