This week Bogdan and I talk about Q4, and the need to be ready to sell during this holiday season.  So many businesses sell more in this quarter than in the rest of the year, and art sales should be no different.  We're getting ready for our big biannual sale at Sawyer Yards in Houston (October 2), as well as beefing up our online presence to catch those holiday shoppers.  Let's face it, art sells as an impulse purchase, so we need to position ourselves to be in the right place when those impulses hit. 

In preparation for the 4th quarter rush, both Bogdan and I have prepared a lot of new work for sale.  Bogdan has more of the sculptural photography pieces, and more local images of Houston and Texas in the studio.  I have loads of work framed and ready to go, as well as the new work I'm preparing for the PRPGMX Art Lab program I'm enrolled in, and the commission work I'm finishing up.  Should be a great event, and the inauguration of a great buying season.

The annual photography festival and exhibition is wrapping up in Tucumán, Argentina, where Bogdan has been showing his work since August.  He is about to exhibit in a juried show in Poughkipsee, New York in November.  We also met with Micheal Swank at PRPGMX in Mexico City about Bogdan having a show in his gallery there, as well as him serving as a juror for future photography shows at the gallery, and an invitation for him to curate photography shows at the gallery as well.  Don't know what we did before we met you Micheal, but we're awfully glad we did.

I was honored this week with an invitation to serve as an Ambassador for Read Pakistan, a remarkable NGO that is doing some amazing work around the work in support of reading, and libraries.  So excited and honored to be working with them.

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Season 1, Episode 25
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“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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