Red Elephant Gallery Heads to Buyer's Market of American Craft (BMAC)
This new and hopefully temporary economy has brought home to the Red Elephant Gallery the wonderful, simple pleasures of life at a slower pace. Two kids and their friends run through the place all the time and living through their smiles, grins, pouts, temper tantrums, and innocence is one of our great joys. We’ve been sledding on local humps in the next town over rather than worrying about which weekend we might fight traffic to get to the ski hills up north. We’ve been hunting for wine bargains and simple eats to bring friends together for company and good conversation rather than heading to the movie theater or going out for an extravagant dinner we don’t want to pay for right now. Honestly, it’s been good to bring it all in closer where we can handle it just a little better.
This weekend we’re heading to the Philadelphia Buyer’s Market of American Craft (BMAC), an annual pilgrimage of all things arts and crafts. We’ll see friends made in past years and make friends we’ll follow for years to come. We will also be looking at what various artists have to offer in a new light. We’re going to focus a bit more on reused/reusable and recycled/recyclable pieces. There were some artists last year in this category and we already carry many products of the type, but we’re sure there will be many more this year. Artists whose creativity will blow us away, and artists whose simple, enduring style will leave us awestruck. We’re also going to be looking for pieces that make us comfortable, happy, optimistic, goofy—ones that make us love life, art, and simple joy.
There are hundreds of artists so we’re confident we’ll find greatness to share with you our gallery goers. When we’re back and the new pieces start arriving we’ll set up a section in the gallery of what’s new from Philly for you to see, discuss, enjoy, pine for and, if we’ve done our job well, purchase.
The economy is the economy and there’s little we can do about it but be patient, support the artists who put their heart and soul into their work, and hope we offer works that you’ll want to use in your home, during your next gathering of family or friends, or share as a gift with someone who means a lot to you.
---Michael
This weekend we’re heading to the Philadelphia Buyer’s Market of American Craft (BMAC), an annual pilgrimage of all things arts and crafts. We’ll see friends made in past years and make friends we’ll follow for years to come. We will also be looking at what various artists have to offer in a new light. We’re going to focus a bit more on reused/reusable and recycled/recyclable pieces. There were some artists last year in this category and we already carry many products of the type, but we’re sure there will be many more this year. Artists whose creativity will blow us away, and artists whose simple, enduring style will leave us awestruck. We’re also going to be looking for pieces that make us comfortable, happy, optimistic, goofy—ones that make us love life, art, and simple joy.
There are hundreds of artists so we’re confident we’ll find greatness to share with you our gallery goers. When we’re back and the new pieces start arriving we’ll set up a section in the gallery of what’s new from Philly for you to see, discuss, enjoy, pine for and, if we’ve done our job well, purchase.
The economy is the economy and there’s little we can do about it but be patient, support the artists who put their heart and soul into their work, and hope we offer works that you’ll want to use in your home, during your next gathering of family or friends, or share as a gift with someone who means a lot to you.
---Michael
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