by admin-eric | Sep 25, 2015 | Fine Arts America
Sometimes the simplest ideas are the most powerful and the most useful. One such simple idea is getting to your art before your “real” day (of a day job or similar responsibilities) begins. Many people already do something during this “before the day begins” time:...
by admin-eric | Sep 17, 2015 | Fine Arts America
Selling to Tourists: Louise’s Workshop Let’s create a hypothetical watercolor artist by the name of Louise and place her in a particular locale—let’s say the art tourist town of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California—and see how she might go about selling to tourists. Step 1....
by admin-eric | Sep 11, 2015 | Fine Arts America
There are many ways that artists can connect with tourists, from creating hands-on workshops and promoting them to tourists to renting prime space and staging an exhibition. Imagine that you are a visual artist. You might: + Create a workshop specifically geared to...
by admin-eric | Sep 4, 2015 | Fine Arts America
Artists want to connect with tourists. But tourists also want to connect with artists. Currently tourists crawl through the exhibits of a great museum as much because it is an obligation as it is a pleasure. But if they encounter Mongolian chanters, Andean flute...
by admin-eric | Aug 27, 2015 | Fine Arts America
Let’s say that you want to promote the idea that creative tourism is valuable and that your community should support the efforts of artists to reach out to tourists. What sorts of arguments might you present to the stakeholders I’ve described—to hotel managers,...
by admin-eric | Aug 21, 2015 | Fine Arts America
There is more to selling to tourists than standing on a bridge in Prague and selling your photographs or setting up in a square in Paris and doing caricatures of passers-by. You can also promote the creative tourism model I’ve been describing and become an activist in...
