Lots going on this week.  John was able to deliver all but one of the Panca Marga paintings purchased at the gallery opening last month, and place all of the unsold artworks in the studio.  Bogdan is busy reinventing some beautiful line art drawings and illustrations with hand embellishments and gold foil.  He has also bee working more on his sculptural photography, and getting it all ready for the open studio art events for the next two weeks.  

Both Bogdan and John were honored by being accepted in the 37th annual open juried show hosted by the VAA, Visual Artists Alliance here in Houston.  This year the juror is quite impressive, Dr. Henry Cooper, PhD, Senior Curator and Head of Modern Art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.  It is a huge honor to get into the show, and the thought that Dr. Cooper spent time looking at, and selecting, our work is honor enough.  

Otherwise, we've both just been working hard to create new art pieces for the studio, and continuing to search for exhibition opportunities.  Bogdan was accepted into the FAIN show in Guadalajara and we'll be flying to Mexico later this month.

We're also looking at doing some work on my parents' home to turn it into a proper art studio.  We hope to use the space as a place for painting, sculpting, framing, stretching, storage, and a center for all the administrative business aspects of running a small art business.  If all goes well, we may be able to give up one of the studio spaces we're renting in Houston, and make the house here in Huntsville the center of our operations.  We'll keep you posted.

“Conversations for Freelance Creatives” is a weekly blog/vlog/podcast that creates a community, a conversation, between creatives in all sorts of fields at all sorts of levels.  We want to discuss what we’re learning, what we’ve experienced, and whom we’ve met in our journey of running a freelance creative business. John Bishop is a visual artist living in Houston, Texas. His work is largely abstract, and explores how to turn mythic, archetypal symbols into individual experiences allowing us to see them in a new way, with fresh eyes. Bogdan is a videographer and fine art photographer who constantly seeks to stretch the boundaries of traditional photographic work, with the added flare of his artistic eye.  Both artists’ work can be seen online, or at their studios at Silver Street Studios, 2000 Edwards Street, in Houston.

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