Opening Night for the Exhibition I participated in & A Big Event is Coming!!

It is so busy in these few weeks. I will explain what has been happened in my Internship.

First of all, I accidently got the exhibition in other pop up shop (Our neighbor) in July. This is the photo that I took on that day. This ARI is so different from our shop. After the opening night, we were playing “Piñata”, one of the party games and have so many fun at that night.

AND SURPRISINGLY! I sold my painting!! This painting was finished last year as one of my assignments for my oil paint course, which is the elective course that I selected last year. I never think that I would get this opportunity to sell my painting!! That’s so fantastic!! I also got some inspired idea from the people who like my painting.

This ARI finished their contract with the government and they closed. The one I put my work in was their final exhibition. It is sad for all the pop up shops here because we survive and support each other as an art community. This might be a main reason to attract tourists to visit the place. The locals could also be proud of their art and cultural community. In fact, we cannot survive without each other and that makes sense to me. Customers come in to this old building for coffee or for seeing other ARIs. When they pass by, they might get a chance to pop in our shop. Luckily, we lost one pop up shop, but we will have a new pop up shop come in this building.

I will have an interview from the government next week. That is a part of promotion program for the pop up project. They will film all conversation with artists, intern and volunteers through the interviewing as an attraction to involving people in this pop up projects. Basically, I just need to answer: what the three best things about being involved in this project as an intern? What is enabling you to do and the creative experience you get from this project? I am going to make a draft and then do some practices on that, just in case that I will be too nervous to forget what I would like to say.

We are preparing the coming event-“Dreamers’ Market” on the 1^st of September. I have designed a few postcards for our ARI(Thanks for my previous working experience in a graphic design company, I felt it easy when it come to the design part J) Because of the bad economic in Australia, we have to work out our marketing strategy. We used to have a lot of clients from the government and we had some big sale for Christmas. However, it has been quite in our shop for a while. I think we need to target wider customers. Not only people who work in the government (the high-class), but also the general public (the middle class) who got art taste and they do not want to buy stuffs from two dollar shop. This might be a challenge for our shop because we are lack of people to handle such a big event. We need people and we need more ceramic talent people involved in helping us to run our project.