Christmas Art Handling

I always have hated the term art handler. It is a silly title. Art handler. It sounds so funny.

Anyway, as this website deals with the profession of working in galleries as well as creating artwork, I thought I would give a little advice to the art handlers out there. December has been a rough month for work in the gallery profession. I have actually had two other art handler friends of mine call me looking for work. The handlers are starving. What happens is that the major art fairs stop at the end of November. Miami art fairs end, and the big time clients of NYC are all still in Florida avoiding the NY winter. The galleries do their best to put up a low priority show for the Christmas tourists, and then they shut down in the later weeks of December. My prediction is that the gallery world will stay shut down until mid January and then it will pick up again for the pre-spring season. The major pier Armory Show is in February and the gallery scene will be in full swing long before then.

My advice to all you young artists out there working in the field to pay rent: get a part time job starting December First and April First. If I could go back in time to the first of this month I would have done it, but its late now. I will have to brave this unemployment storm till January, but I will not make this mistake come April. I will start looking for a part time job starting in March that will get me through the summer, and next winter I will just have to sell more artwork.