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Baren Digest               Sunday, 16 August 1998       Volume 04 : Number 246

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From: Matthew.W.Brown@VALLEY.NET (Matthew W Brown)
Date: 15 Aug 98 22:46:33 EDT
Subject: [Baren 1385] Camper 

Dave,
	About how I do "The Fair": I have a camper set up along a little river
not far from the fairground. The key to the whole business is being able to
frame prints each night so as to have good selection each day, and in this
camper I have matboard blanks, frames, my mat-cutter, glass. Pretty crazy, no?
A big part of the sales end of my printmaking is framing. I make many of my
frames (with hired help), and it has turned out that getting the frame right is
just as important as getting right any one of the color blocks in the print
itself (a print framed in a way that doesn't quite suit is a print that will
not sell . . . ) At Sunapee my family came down to visit a few times but mostly
when I go to the Craft Fairs it is just Matt selling, and carving, and putting
prints in and out of boxes, and talking, and in the end limping home hopefully
with a satisfying stack of checks and credit card slips. 
	A few of the galleries I work with frame the prints but as James
referred to some time back it seems in the States this task of framing is an
inevitable result of trying to get out into the marketplace. Your approach Dave
is a wonderment and an inspiration, maybe in 20 years . . . 

	Oh, this topic of finding homes for prints, anyone else have some other
tricks to share?

Matt

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