Comments on: Showing Your Work: choose your audience https://blog.lyrickinard.com/2014/02/creative-wisdom-entering-shows-your-audience/ find joy, be inspired, create beauty Wed, 14 Feb 2024 16:17:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Heidi Zielinski https://blog.lyrickinard.com/2014/02/creative-wisdom-entering-shows-your-audience/#comment-11566 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 19:22:08 +0000 http://lyrickinard.com/?p=4766#comment-11566 I enjoyed this series of posts and can identify with lots of what you have said. I am still entering shows although I try to keep it to ones that I feel strongly about and when I have a piece I think is worthy–it is expensive to pay entry fees and send the pieces all over the place, often paying for shipping both ways. I’m still entering some of the big fiber art shows every year hoping that one of these days I’ll have the right piece at the right time!

I enter shows and show/sell my work in galleries because it gives me the positive feedback and encouragement to keep doing what I’m doing. Like many quilters/art quilters, I enjoy sharing my work with others, exposing people to art quilts as an art form, and of course making some money to help me support my habit! My talented fiber art group did a unique show that has been traveling to a couple of our State’s (Montana) art museums and we are very proud of that. This winter it will go to the Provo Utah Library which has a large new gallery space.

I admire your diversity in pursuing your art and doing things like publishing a book and teaching on a national level. I aspire to those things but likely will not get there until my young (11 year-old) son is out of school. You are brave and must have more energy than I do to pursue them with kids at home. You go girl!

Thanks for these posts. Would enjoy hearing more about the teaching experience. I’ve just started teaching locally and planning to do more…

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