My Goals for 2007

I decided I need some goals to help guide me this year. My first one is to get a "real" website up and running (instead of the free sites I'm using now). Well, it's not as easy as it sounds. I've attended several seminars and hopefully will get it going soon. Cross your fingers for me! My second goal is to write the background stories for each of my paintings. I'll post them here so you can check them out before they get published to the website. I would love to read your comments about them too. That would actually help in my third goal...writing the ultimate "Artist Statement". I attended a wonderful teleseminar that was organized by Ariane Goodwin. She got 12 wonderful speakers together to teach about the "art" of selling, organizing and promoting your work. Boy, do I have a lot to work on! The artist statement will be a difficult one, but one that you can help me with. As I stated before, please send me your comments about my art, either the paintings I'll be posting here or on the current website. I'd love to read them and as further incentive to write me, I'll send you a free gift if you respond with your thoughts and your snail mail address to maryannawelch@gmail.com. I look forward to hearing from you!

My Trip to Nashville, IN

I just got back from a road trip out to Nashville, Indiana to check out the art galleries and have a girls night out with my good friend Jo Ripley (she works primarily in pastels). We had a great time! Unfortunately, Nashville is a tourist town and most of the shops are closed for the winter. We'll just have to go back in the Spring and check them out again. We did a lot of brainstorming about our businesses and I've got tons of things to work on. I've decided to take the year off from doing festivals and concentrate on the business end and creating new paintings. For those of you who have come to Grove City to see my work at the Peddler's Junction, I'm sorry to report that the business has closed. However I'll be exhibiting my work and will be posting it here. My next exhibit (which I just found out about this morning) will be at Swisher's Too...Cafe in the Fifth-Third Building in Dayton, Ohio during the month of March. More information will be coming as soon as I receive it!

January 2007

I've decided to start a blog about my activites. I'm still publishing my newsletter on a quarterly basis, but for those of you who can't wait to see what I'm up to...check back here often.