OPEN SPACE Beacon

2 weeks and counting....

Poughkeepsie Journal Article

The Poughkeepsie Journal wrote a great article about the tote show in their Southern Dutchess "Focus" Section. For some reason the article did not run online so here is the "paper version"

Beacon Soul book release

This Sunday from 4pm to 6pm we are proud to host the release of "Beacon Soul" a commemorative hardcover book celebrating the first year of the Beacon Art Salon.
Book will be for sale and many of the artists will be attending. see you there!

The "TOTE BAG" site is up!

All the totes are ready to view and purchase online!

CLICK HERE to check them all out!

lots of Totes!

you will have to wait a little bit for it to load, but it's neat.

Full Tote Site Coming Soon...

Sorry for the delay.
We are very close to having our tote site up. Very soon you will be able to see and purchase all the wonderful totes from the show...

keep an eye on this space: www.openspacebeacon.com/totebag

in the mean time check out the post below for the full show wrap-up.

A great tote show!

Putting this show together wasn't easy. We had a vision of what it should look like and what kind of work we would get, but it wasn't up to us it was up to the artists that we asked to be in the show and at the end of the day we sent out 125 tote bags to 125 artists from across the world and crossed our fingers...
A week before the show was about to open we had received 5 bags, and we were worried... But a few days later, like we hoped, the bags just started coming in. UPS, FEDEX, DHL USPS all were coming twice a day every day, the bags were arriving at a record pace and we were opening boxes and piling them up, all right down to the wire (artists work best under pressure:) and all the bags were absolutely amazing! We had no idea how many of the 125 bags would make it back to the gallery but out of the 125 bags we sent out we got 105 back. It really makes it all worth it when you can get so many amazing artists to donate their time and talents to such a great cause.

So now that we had all the totes it was time to get down to business and hang the show. We rigged a post and nail system that worked out great and once that was all set we got to hanging...

In addition to hanging all the totes and making sure they looked great, we had a window display concept to realize and it took a few tricks but in the end it looked just as we had hoped.

It was down to the wire getting ready for Saturday night's opening, and we were working right up to it and a little after... but it all came together and everything went great! We had an amazing turnout and great weather. So many artists and friends came out to check out all the amazing tote's. Special thanks to Knox Robinson for keping the music proper during the opening (and stepping up at Next Step) And thanks to Nicole Horton Heather Sioux, Ken Bolton, andJeff Ashey and our intern Tim for all your help in getting ready for the show, we couldn't have done it without you!