"I Dream of Tiki" Art Show ONLINE! M Modern Gallery - California Events

T Tiki-Toa Member Somewhere on Planet Tiki Joined: May 30, 2004 Posts: 1012	T Tiki-Toa Posted posted on Sat, Jun 19, 2004 8:47 AM I think this is a great topic of discussion and I love to come back and read and share further my thoughts. As a business, it takes money to make it. I wanted to take Tiki Tony's original artwork that he is doing for me for my WI. Tiki Event and have a print of 11X17 made, well the estimate I recieved was for a 100 prints and was $1300+, so needless to say I will not be able to do that as I would have liked. I know I would love to open a tiki bar here in Wisconsin, but is it feasible, will it make money, can I sell a bank on the idea that it will make money. Having a belief in something, getting the chance to try and prove it, and actually proving it, well as Mastercard says "priceless". Any business that cannot support itself is going to go under if their overhead is more than their profit, while having shows is expensive and the orginals in being originals are priced at their worth. If you cannot get someone with the financial means to buy them then what are they worth? And I will admit my previous belief was that an artist made money on the prints not on the orginal. 150 prints sold for 150.00 dollars is $22,500 minus the estimated cost of $1500 to make prints is $21,000. Not bad money for an artist, but only if as you said, you can sell them all. How do artists like Shag and others do it consitently? Is it because enough people bought their prints that more and more people saw their work and wanted a piece for themselves, I woul dlike to think that might be one possiblity. Are there others, I am sure there are. As I mentioned before, I want to support as many of the wonderful tiki artists that are out there and were at the exhibit, but for me and I am sure others, financially we are limited in how we can support them and at what price point we are able to do so. I do want to say mahalo to the M Modern Gallery for their support of Tiki and all of the wonderful artists, I do sincerly hope that they are able to keep doing Tiki for a long time. Keep up the great work that you are doing. ~~"May the Tiki Gods bless you and always keep your life Tikifull!"~~ [ Edited by: Tiki-Toa on 2004-06-19 08:52 ]

I think this is a great topic of discussion and I love to come back and read and share further my thoughts.

As a business, it takes money to make it.
I wanted to take Tiki Tony's original artwork that he is doing for me for my WI. Tiki Event and have a print of 11X17 made, well the estimate I recieved was for a 100 prints and was $1300+, so needless to say I will not be able to do that as I would have liked. I know I would love to open a tiki bar here in Wisconsin, but is it feasible, will it make money, can I sell a bank on the idea that it will make money. Having a belief in something, getting the chance to try and prove it, and actually proving it, well as Mastercard says "priceless".
Any business that cannot support itself is going to go under if their overhead is more than their profit, while having shows is expensive and the orginals in being originals are priced at their worth. If you cannot get someone with the financial means to buy them then what are they worth? And I will admit my previous belief was that an artist made money on the prints not on the orginal. 150 prints sold for 150.00 dollars is $22,500 minus the estimated cost of $1500 to make prints is $21,000. Not bad money for an artist, but only if as you said, you can sell them all. How do artists like Shag and others do it consitently? Is it because enough people bought their prints that more and more people saw their work and wanted a piece for themselves, I woul dlike to think that might be one possiblity. Are there others, I am sure there are.
As I mentioned before, I want to support as many of the wonderful tiki artists that are out there and were at the exhibit, but for me and I am sure others, financially we are limited in how we can support them and at what price point we are able to do so.

I do want to say mahalo to the M Modern Gallery for their support of Tiki and all of the wonderful artists, I do sincerly hope that they are able to keep doing Tiki for a long time. Keep up the great work that you are doing.

~~"May the Tiki Gods bless you and always keep your life Tikifull!"~~

[ Edited by: Tiki-Toa on 2004-06-19 08:52 ]

Post #97241 by Tiki-Toa on Sat, Jun 19, 2004 8:47 AM