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- From: mwallis@lunacity.com (Michael Wallis)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom
- Subject: Re: Art Shows (was Re: Hello Confrancisco?)
- Message-ID: <NDRDwB2w165w@lunacity.com>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 08:13:46 GMT
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- Organization: LunaCity BBS - (Clan Zen Relay Network) Mountain View, CA
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- Several things bunched together ...
-
- jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann) writes:
-
- > I never said it could not be done. But it is a challenge, and
- > adds more work to an already overworked Art Show staff.
-
- > Of course we've figured them out. I could, for example, take
- > a day off work and have everything delivered to me. But I
- > have limited vacation time, and would rather NOT take time off
- > work to do this. To get things to the con, we could have
- > the truck stop by my house on the way. But Logistics already has
- > lots of work to do precon. Adding a long side trip to their
- > work is not a good thing.
-
- > Again, you miss the point. Of course I can plan to make two
- > or three trips instead of one. But that's a lot of extra work.
- > There is already lots to do in the day or two before the convention
- > and the day or two after: why add more to it?
-
- > Why? In any case, that doesn't solve the problem that mail-in
- > art, if costs were apportioned correctly, is a lot more
- > expensive for us to handle than art the artists bring
- > in themselves.
-
- > > Hmmm ... if that's how you run art shows, no wonder you think of
- > > them as nightmares. Maybe you should take a break and let someonw
- > > else run it for a while?
- >
- > I'm not sure what you are refering to there.
-
- I can best sum up by saying: If it's so much work, why do you do it? If
- you don't enjoy it, maybe you should work on some other aspect of the
- convention for a bit.
-
- > To the best of my knowledge, the Art Shows that have employed
- > this method (most of the East Coast regionals, Noreascon,
- > Magicon, the Austin Nasfic) have not lost any art work this way.
- [[Having in-show sales and a guard to check receipts at the door.]]
-
- The only con that I know of that lost a piece of art was TorCon II, and
- they had a rent-a-cop security guard at the door. Someone had a Kelley
- Freas piece of art with a $15 tag and a receipt for $15. The guard let it
- pass. He didn't know that Freas original oils don't sell for $15.
-
- Michael
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