I’m excited to announce that I just reserved my spot in the upcoming First Thursday Street Galleries! For those of you that don’t know, First Thursday happens on the first Thursday of the month and is when the galleries of the Pearl district have art receptions and stay open later into the evening. This makes for a great art viewing, wine drinking, gallery hopping night in Portland. The street gallery is exactly that: a gallery in the street that happens on First Thursday. They close off three blocks in NW Portland on 13th street between Hoyt and Kearney from 5 to 10 pm and local vendors with handmade and original artwork sell their work to the gallery hopping crowd.
The street gallery happens the first Thursday of every month from April until November. I will probably not be set up for April because I thought it would be wise to attend as a patron so I could observe how people set up their spaces and displayed their work to get ideas. However, I plan to be there every First Thursday from May until November, so if you’ve ever wanted a chance to browse all my paintings in person and bring one home for yourself this would be the venue to do it! My booth will be on the corner of 13th and Johnson by the PNCA building on the east side. Hope to see people there when the weather gets nice!
Peace!
Chantel
Chantel, it’s Jules P from Merlo! You should get set up on Etsy… I just looked at your site, and it’s awesome! I’d love to buy from you
Hi! Sorry I get way behind on my comments because I usually have so much spam. Nice to have a real person comment
Yeah my Etsy site has been rather sad, but I did sell all my paintings that were up there in one day, so that’s why it’s empty now. It’s been hard trying to figure out what to do with my paintings. Should I sell them on Etsy? Should I put them in shows and hope they sell? Should I put them in a gallery and hope they sell? Should I sell them at fairs and festivals? Can I do all these things with the work that I have? Since I’ve been having trouble selling anything through shows and galleries I think I’m going to go straight to the people and sell through Etsy and outdoor fairs for a while. That means that pretty much ALL my work will be up on Etsy soon and I’ll be taking it off the site before festivals and putting whatever didn’t sell back up after it’s done. Keep checking my Etsy site and soon there will lots to buy 
What have you been up to since high school? Where are you living these days?