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"Why can't I find something I know is on this site?" "What happened to my show review?" "Where is that information about the best tent, show, lodging deal, funny story, jury tip, safety idea, etc.?

This site thrives on your participation and your stories, questions and reviews. Thousands of people thank you for your generosity. In the last month the site had 132,795 page views. As you can see the readers are here. 

How you can help them and get the most mileage out of your time spent sharing information:

  1. When you write a post in the blog or start a discussion before you click on "Publish" add "tags" in the box underneath the post. Why? This insures that someone looking for that information can find it.

    Examples for this post: "how to make AFI work", "tagging", "helpful tips" 
  2. Put each phrase in " " to separate the phrases and put a , between each phrase.
  3. Also helpful are the "search" links up above, the tags will help you on your quest.

I don't read everything on the site but saw a recent comment from Mike Heilman that he had done a show review and wanted to know where it went. Mike, you'll find that on ArtShowReviews.com, right here. It did not go into the vast wasteland, we got it, we posted it. 

I just found this comment also:

I find it a little difficult to navigate around this site looking for just the right thread that I want to read. It's probably simple enough but it doesn't seem simple to me. This has become such an important repository of first-hand information for art fair artists that it is vital the data contained herein can be accessed swiftly and smoothly. I think it's a little cluttered and I have to hunt and peck each time I am looking to find information I am seeking on a specific subject. 

If we all add "tags" to our posts it will help a lot. Try it -- 

then when you go to look for something click on the "search" -- it works, and the more accurately you "tag" your post the more likely someone will find it.

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Just before I left them at a health food store called Water Lily, last December 2009...

Well, January 4th the lawyer for the landlord apparently escorted Water Lily's owner out, for non-payment of January 1st rent...

To boot, all goods were going to be sold & the monies were going to be divied up between sales tax, the landlord & other creditors...

My 4 oil paintings (24 x36) were still on the wall...On consignment...But how to get them out?

Well, the key to proving the art was really still mine was those security tags. I had ordered them from a
website FineArtRegistry.com & when they had arrived in the mail, I had dutifully stuck one on the back of each work, photographed the paintings front & back, & uploaded that to the Fine Art registry website...

I also had taken a minute before bringing them to Water Lily to make a note of my plans, in the description section of the webpage...

So...When the lawyer for the landlord said what proof do you have that those paintings are your etc. etc., I sent a link in an email to the web page which showed those 4 paintings, descriptions, size, medium, style, & details of the show & where & when...

Not only that, the inventor of those security tags was able to vouch for me that I had uploaded all of this information just before December 1st, so the timeline was correct.

Even more powerful, was when the lawyer got to be difficult, I listed those paintings as "Stolen" which is a special button you can activate- seeing as the way I saw it, they had my paintings, knew they were mine & didn't want to give them back...To me that meant "stolen"...

Teri Franks, of FAR (Fine Art Registry) told Mr. lawyer , in no uncertain terms, that if he attempted to sell my paintings they would come up as stolen to the international fine art community...

No title, no-one would buy them or could ever sell them...

Powerful stuff...

Anyways, I am writing this because I am so grateful to FAR for all of their hard work in getting my paintings back...

I did get them back on Wednesday February 24th- took me about a month of hard fighting...But we won...

I said to Teri, how can I ever thank you? She said, tell people... So, I am telling people...

Teri is going to court March 15, in Michigan, to fight a very big gallery who has been selling fakes & forgeries & other bad stuff, & they sued FAR for publishing that truth...

If anyone is in Michigan round that time you are welcome to support FAR by showing up to the trial or hearing or whatever they call it...More can be read on the FAR website...(fineartregistry.com)

Sari Grove

p.s. sorry this sounds kind of like an ad- it is really the truth, it's just coming out a bit corny I don't know why...?

p.p.s. Today I brought a painting to show a brand new gallery called Lane Gallery, so maybe they will take me...We'll see...(They really liked the story about the security tags though, smart & cool & tech, & a great way to follow where your work ends up-the ownership transfer thing is a neat way to track provenance, plus you can get COAs (certificates of authenticity) just for marketing support...
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