Gallery
Stroll and Open House!
July 18, 2008
Friday,
July 18th
6-9 pm
The
Salt Lake Gallery Stroll is the Third Friday of
Each Month
335 Pierpont Avenue Suite 4
Salt Lake City, Utah 84101
(801) 596-2212
We're aiming to have our "grand opening" of our new Stars
and Garters Boutique on Friday, July 18. This is Gallery Stroll
Night all over Salt Lake City, when the galleries and shops stay
open late, and you get to see new shows and new artists everywhere.
Find
more participating
galleries and studios, and chart your course around town with these
links!
gallerystroll.org
downtownslc.org
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New
Address!
July 1, 2008
We have MOVED (just down the stairs from where our studio was for
five years), from the second-story loft into the storefront below!
We now have more space for the boutique, and more
room for consignment items from all you costume designers and wearable
art lovers/makers out there. Now, pedestrians and lookie-loos can
walk by, look in the window, and just walk on in to buy your creations
and consignments. Prior to our move, we were pretty much an exclusive,
appointment-only kinda joint, where you had to already know
you wanted a custom corset or a custom costume in order to physically
find our location. Now that we're in full view of the general population
we will have to be on our best behavior!
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Announcing
STARS AND GARTERS!
and
CALL FOR ARTISTS! July,
2008
Because our clientele and our artists' network have
grown so much, we are consolidating our different design divisions
under a new business venture, Stars and Garters!
This new wearable art gallery and gift boutique will
be ready to take your costume consignment items starting July 14th.
So get those projects going and clean out your closets because we
will buy, sell and trade costumes, and we especially want to showcase
the custom items that you create.
Our goal is to develop a sort of local
etsy.com right here in Salt Lake City, to promote and support the
talents of our own residents with a one-of-a-kind boutique dedicated
specifically to wearable arts, costumes and adornment.
We also want your custom
artwork, prints, cards and accessories that echo these themes! Circus,
carnivale, burlesque, native, exotic, animal, monsters, vintage,
Vegas, sci-fi, period, pin-up, princesses and more... are themes
we encourage you to explore, but you're in no way limited by these.
Let's see what's going on in your imagination! Visit
this page again soonfor downloadable consignment forms and more
info.
Hundreds of people will
be able to see and purchase your work during monthly gallery stroll
nights (third Friday each month) and every single Saturday during
the downtown Farmers' Market, as well as during the boutique's regularly
scheduled hours. This is the historic building, formerly
managed by Artspace, on Pierpont Avenue. It is an imporant nexus
for gallery stroll, a prime shopping area just half a block south
of the Gateway Shopping Center, and it's half a block south of the
newest TRAXX stop on 400 West.
Our neighbors
include art galleries and individual artists of many types, many
of whom participate in Gallery Stroll nights by opening their studios
and workspaces to the public. This is an important artistic and
social event because all the galleries in the city open their brand
new shows on this day, every third Friday. A broad spectrum of our
citizenry comes together in the many Salt Lake area galleries, eateries,
coffee shops and boutiques just like ours to mingle, buy and discuss
art, and create the kind of community that you and I both want to
live in.
Items to bring in for consignment:
- custom / customized
/ embellished
costumes
altered clothing
masks
gloves
hats
jewelry
shoes
wearable art & accessories
greeting cards
prints
posters
closet & boudoir accessories
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- Themes we encourage you
to explore:
Circus, carnivale, burlesque, native, exotic, animal, monsters,
vintage, Vegas, sci-fi, period, pin-up, princess and more...
- These are themes that will
sell well in this venue, but you are in no way limited by
these. Let's see what's going on in your imagination!
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Visit
our booth
at the
2008 Mountain
Con Festival September 19 - 21!
Yup, that's right, the hunky Kevin Sorbo from the Hercules tv series
is one of the special guests at this event! Come see our spread
of superhero gear, fairy garb, and even more unusal fantasy, comic
and sci-fi treats.
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Visit
our booth
at the
2008 Dark
Arts Festival June 6, 7 and 8!
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Press
& Other Famousness
Our
Snow White Costume in the Daily Herald worn
by Nicole, from Omniture
(the Dwarves are from a talent agency in Las Vegas, NV.)
"Combat
Tutus & the Art of the Corsetiere". Jen's article
in Belle Armoire Magazine,
Nov/Dec 2007: 56-59.
Salt Lake Magazine's "Best of 2007" July 2007
IN Utah
this Week article "Club Clothes: A FIELD GUIDE TO
CLUB FASHION"
Q Pages June 2006, article re: Dark Arts Festival
City
Weekly
article "Crash Corset." 11/17/05
Salt
Lake Tribune multimedia feature "Birth of a Mascot."
<http://extras.sltrib.com/NIP/robotech/index.htm>
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Artspace
Updates Dec. 07
The
new sidewalk was finally finished in time for gallery stroll, December
7th. It probably cost a pittance compared to what our building will
sell for. Some rumors have it that it's already been sold (to the
developer directly south of us. hmmm.).
Artspace
Updates (old ones)
Perhaps
you've heard or seen for yourself by now that the front sidewalk
at ArtSpace has been condemned. Yep, it's true-
about a ten foot section of it collapsed DURING gallery stroll FIVE
MONTHS AGO on July 20th.
It's
been hard on everyone, particularly the people who got hurt, but
also those of us who work and/or live there. Stay posted about whether
ArtSpace or individual artists and galleries there will participate
in Gallery Stroll this month. Don't count your chickens. Click
here to read the Salt Lake Tribune's recent article about this.
Mayoral candidate Ralph Becker said he wanted to expand Artspace,
whatever that meant--click
here to read about his platform then call me with your interpretation
or inside info.
Just
a few days ago (and today is October 11th), we got a generic looking
and badly spellchecked memo notifying us that our building just
got handed over to another management company, something called
"Evergreene Property Management," whom we've never met
and have only a mailing address for. I suspect our awesome former
property manager, Annie, quit in total disgust with the whole situation.
I'll bet you a nickel she was tired of being a foil between rich,
noncommunicative building owners and angsty tenants. Who can blame
her?
As
tenants, we no longer have access to an onsite property management
office and as of this date (Oct 11th,) the rent check I sent in
on the first (to the former, onsite property management office address)
has somehow "disappeared" in the mail. Figures. This really
pisses me off, and if I find I need to stop payment on that check,
do you think I can have the property management company cover the
cost? Nope, of course not.
Rumors
have flown around for months now. One tenant told me he was told
by our maintenance guy that the property management got two bids
so the dock could be fixed: one for $20,000 and one for $100,000.
Guess which contractor we were told they'd be hiring? Now they're
not doing jack shit. FOUR MONTHS!
If
we weren't all poor, starving and disorganized artists, I'm sure
we'd find the gumption to get ourselves together, find ourselves
a pit bull of a lawyer and git ourselves a dang ol' class action
lawsuit going to gently persuade the building owners to tell us
what the hell is going on with the dock repair as well as the future
of the property.
We
heard a rumor a couple of months ago that the engineers have already
ordered materials to do some retrofitting, but it could realistically
be months before any progress is made. You know how these things
go. Artspace has told all its tenants that they (and their guests)
must not use the front sidewalk/dock, and that anyone who does from
now on and gets hurt, releases Artspace from any liability. I have
heard from a few tenants that they ARE planning to be open for gallery
stroll.
Regardless
if ArtSpace is still broken or not, get yourself out and about!
There are many gallery stroll locations open on the third Friday
every month, and you should go enjoy them. And for christsakes,
don't just gawk and try to look cool, get your wallet open and buy
some local art!
To
find all the open galleries and chart your course around town, try
these links:
downtownslc.org
gallerystroll.org
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