Thinking of hitting the road for the art fairs? Where will you be spending the nights? The price of lodging does bite into the narrow profit margin artists try to maintain, but here is some good news. Artist, Ynon Mabat, has started a new community, Lodging4Artists.com.
Artists join as members for $12/year and place their name and location on a list. All members of the service can then contact one another about being able to stay at their homes if they do a show in that town or are just traversing the country.
This is an idea whose time has come. Like this website it requires your participation to make it successful. I encourage you to check it out and report back to me any experiences you have. Sounds tailor-made for artists planning to head to Florida this winter.
Good luck, Ynon, with this venture!
Hmmm, I hadn't thought about customers getting involved. How interesting. I know many artists are pretty sociable and would find welcome this interaction. Maybe I'll announce this initiative in my customer newsletters and see if there is interest in this idea. What do you think?
On the other hand, I know others who are so exhausted at the end of the day they can barely be sociable, but they just wouldn't participate.
Geri, and I understand the questions about liability. But it looks to me as though Ynon has investigated this. If you dig deep into the site you will see some thorough "legalese" which addresses many sides of this.
This is a great idea. I tried to get this started for customers and artists to get together for Coconut Grove but was told there could be liability issues. Is this true?
I am sure that there are many patrons of the arts who would be happy to to do join in this also.
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On the other hand, I know others who are so exhausted at the end of the day they can barely be sociable, but they just wouldn't participate.
Geri, and I understand the questions about liability. But it looks to me as though Ynon has investigated this. If you dig deep into the site you will see some thorough "legalese" which addresses many sides of this.
I am sure that there are many patrons of the arts who would be happy to to do join in this also.