Posted in Artist Resources, Customer Interviews, Gallery Exhibitions on Feb 2nd, 2012
This fall we had the pleasure of working with Graphicstudio on a new project for Allan McCollum. We had worked with Graphicstudio on a previous project for the artist. After that initial series, a commissioned version of the work entitled “One Thousand Women” was recently installed in the Chanel store in London. The Chanel installation features [...]
Posted in Artist Resources on Feb 14th, 2011
One of the reasons I like our business so much is that we are a part of the art community. And within this community many are very generous with their support of others. In New York I had the pleasure of meeting Sanford Hirsch, the Executive Director, of the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation. We have [...]
Posted in Artist Resources on Jan 30th, 2011
Metropolitan is a long time member of the College Art Association. We will be exhibiting at their annual book and trade fair. We have been exhibiting at the fair for many years because we have many fine art instructors and students for customers. It is a good way to introduce new products as well as [...]
Posted in Artist Resources, Gallery Exhibitions on Nov 22nd, 2010
Sunday we were out walking near the historic river district of Minneapolis and stopped to warm up and get a latte. As I was waiting for the latte I went on Facebook and saw that the MCBA www.mnbookarts.org was having an open house. Since we were only a few minutes away we stopped to take a [...]
Posted in Artist Resources on Nov 15th, 2010
Just read this tweet on Twitter. In times of budget cuts it’s important to remember that a city, state, or country is loved most because of its unique creative culture. I can’t imagine wanting to visit any place without museums, galleries, theatre, and concerts. The mayor of London agrees …read more
Posted in Artist Resources on Nov 5th, 2010
Just received this photo from Steven Burger, owner of prodigitalimage.com. He is a professional photographer and also teaches photoshop classes in Phoenix. This picture was taken at Oak Creek Canyon/Westfork where Steve was conducting a photoshop workshop. Steve said it was one of the best hikes he’s taken. He said he went for about 5 miles meandering back and forth [...]
Posted in Artist Resources, Marketing on Oct 30th, 2010
After reading a post from the MNArtists.org, on Facebook, I bought a $300.00 share in the Community Support Arts program. Our family had purchased shares in Red Cardinal Farm’s CSA programs in the early 1990’s. I still have fond memories of picking up our box of food. We never ate better than [...]
Posted in Artist Resources on Oct 20th, 2010
William Wegman, William of Orange, 2009 Over one hundred leading international contemporary artists have created more than 600 limited edition fine art works at Graphicstudio, in intaglio, photogravure, lithography, relief, serigraphy, sculpture, artist books, and in the Graphicstudio invented techniques of waxtype (encaustic screenprinting), and heliorelief (a photographic woodblock process) Graphicstudio is a university-based atelier engaged in [...]
Posted in Artist Resources, Marketing on Oct 1st, 2010
We have many customers who sell their work at art fairs. If you aren’t aware there is an excellent online source to make navigating the art fair scene easier and much more profitable for the artists. The site is artfairinsiders.com. The site is extensive and covers virtually any area of interest that an artist who is [...]
Posted in Artist Resources on Sep 26th, 2010
I just received the following email from MoMA. The revolution in education is making bricks and mortar less important than the technology that allows each of us to become both teachers and students. Very exciting. MoMA COURSES ONLINE New classes start in October REGISTER TODAYONLINE: Modern Art, 1880–1945 This course introduces students to key works [...]
