How Artists Can Sell to Tourists, Part 7

by | 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...

How Artists Can Sell To Tourists, Part 6

by | 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...

How Artists Can Sell To Tourists, Part 5

by | 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,...

How Artists Can Sell To Tourists, Part 4

by | 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...

How Artists Can Sell to Tourists, Part 3

by | Aug 14, 2015 | Fine Arts America

We’ve looked at how artists can reach out—to the organizers of a farmers market, to hotel managers, etc.—to create interactive experiences with tourists and to increase their sales. What about some more offbeat, unusual efforts that an artist might dream up? Here are...

How Artists Can Sell To Tourists, Part 2

by | Aug 9, 2015 | Fine Arts America

Artists can and should actively market to tourists. In the creative tourism model that I’m describing, individual artists and collections of artists dream up public, interactive experiences meant to reach tourists while local officials, local businesses, tourism...