wretched creature & Modern Evil Press
will be showing at:
Phoenix First Fridays / Roosevelt Row
Garfield St., between 3rd and 4th St.
Friday, May 2nd, 2008, 6PM to 10PM
Is it too late to make a blog post about something happening tonight? Will anyone see it before-the-fact? We’ll see. Gotta get that mailing list thing figured out, so I can email everyone and let them know when things are happening.
Like tonight: I’m going to be displaying at First Friday in downtown Phoenix. I’ve mentioned it before, but now that it’s mere hours away, I’m getting restless with excitement. Trying to get everything together & figured out so it goes of “without a hitch,” as they say. I’m not showing in a gallery (yet), and as I’ve been avoiding doing for years now, I’m not illegally showing on the sidewalk or in an empty lot, either. Instead, I’ve rented a space from Roosevelt Row, an organization which is legally getting a section of Garfield (one block south of Roosevelt) blocked off under “Block Party” rules and dividing it up for licensed vendors on First Fridays. A lot of the people who have been setting up illegally already had tents &c., which is something I lack, but I’ve got tables, lights, a generator, and more art than I could possibly show in a 10×10 space (without a tent/walls to hang it all on). Plus my books and Heath’s jewelry (chainmail) and … maybe we’ll make some money, eh?
I’m trying to decide which art to show (show first, that is – I’ll take most of it anyway, in case anything sells, I can replace it), since there’s only so much that can be seen in a setup like this. Thinking about price tags, signage, labels, all that. Only hours to go. But the basics are covered. I’ve even got stands for my books and some of my art, which is better than having it just laying there. I’ve spent enough, between renting the space and getting extras, that if I don’t sell at least one painting (or a lot of books) it’ll come out at a loss — And I didn’t spend much.
Anyway, that’s it, I guess. If you see this in time, please come show your support (maybe buy a book – they’re cheap!)
wretched creature & Modern Evil Press
will be showing at:
Phoenix First Fridays / Roosevelt Row
Garfield St., between 3rd and 4th St.
Friday, May 2nd, 2008, 6PM to 10PM
We arrived late (due to a couple of problems), so instead of being placed between 3rd and 4th St, I was placed on 5th St, 30′ South of Garfield. I was in sight of thousands of people, and I got a lot of traffic – more traffic than I could handle at times – but there was a huge police vehicle (SUV/Suburban-type) blocking 5th at the North side of Garfield, in addition to the normal barricades, and the dozen cops standing around, so the thousands of people coming down 5th towards Garfield mostly turned around at the barricade and went the other way.
I’ll write a whole post about it later.
We arrived late (due to a couple of problems), so instead of being placed between 3rd and 4th St, I was placed on 5th St, 30′ South of Garfield. I was in sight of thousands of people, and I got a lot of traffic – more traffic than I could handle at times – but there was a huge police vehicle (SUV/Suburban-type) blocking 5th at the North side of Garfield, in addition to the normal barricades, and the dozen cops standing around, so the thousands of people coming down 5th towards Garfield mostly turned around at the barricade and went the other way.
I’ll write a whole post about it later.