Arisia, Sunday: fumble and recovery
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jim_pSunday we awoke and had a leisurely breakfast, then got to the con a bit before 11AM. Tam and I wanted to see the "Jews In SF" panel, but first I made a detour to Program Nexus to pick up my ribbon. There I was told that there was a complaint about my "Picture Framer's Tour of the Art Show". ?Wha?! The complaint wasn't about the tour itself, but rather because it was scheduled opposite a "Business of Art" panel... and there's considerable overlap of interest there. Oops.
Much fun was had at "Jews in SF"... talking about various flavors of Golem stories, Ivanova and her Rabbi on Bab5. Most people were surprised to learn that Neil Gaiman is Jewish.
Afterwards, I made a tour of the dealers area to see what was there... lots of shiny but nothing that screamed "BUY ME!". I'm in a decrufting phase of my life now... if I acquire something it has to serve me somehow. Nothing to see here, move along.
Time for my tour. Hmm, where is everybody? In the end, even though several people expressed interest, only one person showed up. I ended up conducting the tour anyway, and we had a nice discussion. Since the tour didn't take the full hour I went and sat in on the "Business of Art" panel. At the end, I got up and announced that I'd heard of the schedule conflict, so if anyone wanted I'd be happy to give a repeat performance of the tour. About half a dozen people took me up on it and we had a nice tour and discussion. As we went by one artist's panel the artist himself showed up and we had a nice discussion about his framing (and lack-of-framing) choices for various pieces.
I think the reason nobody showed up (aside from the conflict) is that this was a last-minute addition to the program. It made it into the pocket program, but not into the schedule grid. My sole person on the first tour suggested that some signage would have been useful. There were several tours of the art show this year; perhaps next time a prominent sign listing all the tours would be useful. I may even volunteer to do that next year...
The basic idea of the tour was to open people's eyes as to the choices that are available when presenting one's artwork, and certain things to be aware of (e.g. if you want to cram a non-standard-sized piece into an inexpensive standard frame, then cut a mat to make up the difference, don't just leave blank space showing on the sides).
I enjoyed it, and I'd like to see if I can slip it in to Boskone this year...
Much fun was had at "Jews in SF"... talking about various flavors of Golem stories, Ivanova and her Rabbi on Bab5. Most people were surprised to learn that Neil Gaiman is Jewish.
Afterwards, I made a tour of the dealers area to see what was there... lots of shiny but nothing that screamed "BUY ME!". I'm in a decrufting phase of my life now... if I acquire something it has to serve me somehow. Nothing to see here, move along.
Time for my tour. Hmm, where is everybody? In the end, even though several people expressed interest, only one person showed up. I ended up conducting the tour anyway, and we had a nice discussion. Since the tour didn't take the full hour I went and sat in on the "Business of Art" panel. At the end, I got up and announced that I'd heard of the schedule conflict, so if anyone wanted I'd be happy to give a repeat performance of the tour. About half a dozen people took me up on it and we had a nice tour and discussion. As we went by one artist's panel the artist himself showed up and we had a nice discussion about his framing (and lack-of-framing) choices for various pieces.
I think the reason nobody showed up (aside from the conflict) is that this was a last-minute addition to the program. It made it into the pocket program, but not into the schedule grid. My sole person on the first tour suggested that some signage would have been useful. There were several tours of the art show this year; perhaps next time a prominent sign listing all the tours would be useful. I may even volunteer to do that next year...
The basic idea of the tour was to open people's eyes as to the choices that are available when presenting one's artwork, and certain things to be aware of (e.g. if you want to cram a non-standard-sized piece into an inexpensive standard frame, then cut a mat to make up the difference, don't just leave blank space showing on the sides).
I enjoyed it, and I'd like to see if I can slip it in to Boskone this year...
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Date: 2011-01-17 06:11 am (UTC)I'm sorry I missed you - sounds like we just weren't in the same place at the same time. (I also was only there yesterday afternoon/evening - next year I hope to be able to do the whole weekend at the hotel :)
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Date: 2011-01-18 03:45 am (UTC)Actually, it did make it into the grid, but in the row for the Griffin room, two floors above.
The grid was a challenge this year, with 28 "main" rooms, vs 16 last year in the Hyatt. Anything that wasn't in one of those 28 "rooms" got shoe-horned into available space in the grid, which in your case was far removed from the actual Art Show programme. In retrospect, I probably should have put it in the unused space for Commonwealth C, with a note that it was offset in time as well as space).
I apologize, both for the poor turnout in general, and because it was one of several things that I wanted (but failed to) get to this weekend.
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Date: 2011-01-18 04:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-18 04:55 am (UTC)signage
Date: 2011-01-19 06:06 am (UTC)A lesson learned this year is that in a room two hundred feet across, a sign two feet by three (which is the size of the sign that listed our four or five docent tours) does not count as "prominent". Next year we'll know.