#201 - Garbage Talk with Tim Kowalczyk

Ryan and Becca are excited to have Tim Kowalczyk from Tims Ceramics on to cover a range of topics and answer a couple listener questions. We chat about selling through galleries, testing new processes, being "academic" with how you talk about your work, taking yourself a little less seriously, artist statements, & applying to shows. We hope you enjoy the discussion and big thanks to Tim for spending so much time with us.

-----Find more about Tim's business below-----
Instagram - @timsceramics
Shop - https://tims-ceramics.myshopify.com/collections/all
Website - https://timsceramics.com/
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5UD4uaoiGKwXI89NyBeGig

Listener Questions
On this episode:
- What do you think are the advantages of doing a curated show? Disadvantages? I’ve been invited to participate in a group show with some other Ceramic artists that I really admire. The show is a little over a month long at a gallery in Portland. After saying yes, I find out that they want 10 pieces, but really they only want 2 pieces to be shown at the gallery, the rest would be only virtual. Of course the gallery wants 50% of all of the 10 pieces. It would be still my responsibility to drop ship the pieces to the customer. I think the shipping fee will be added to the order so I don’t have to cough that up too. I already sell pretty much 100% of my work virtual on my own website. Although, I don’t always sell out on a shop update. Is doing this show or this type of show really going to give me that much more exposure to give up 50%? I’m in such a quandary! Oh and they want to see pictures of all 10 pieces 3 months before the show. @juliannroush
 - Have you talked about writing artist statements for submitting work to galleries? I had to do one recently and wasn’t sure how to approach it. (Also I am thinking Becca probably hates artist statements. 😂) @overbrookclay

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