NEtworking with Galleries and Buyers with Jeff Wilson, AFCA

Tuesday July 5th, 2022

6.00 PM - 8.30 PM (Pacific Daylight Time) 

Online Via Zoom   

Overview:

The idea of networking with galleries and buyers is generally terrifying for most artists, especially if you have not acquired institutional art training. This presentation will discuss general behaviours in person and online to help you interact with art world players in a positive and non-antagonistic manner. Over time, this will establish a professional reputation that will, over time, translate into sales and gallery representation. 

The presentation will comprise a formal powerpoint presentation, followed by plenty of time for questions.  

The Instructor: Jeff Wilson, AFCA

http://www.jeffwilsonart.org/

Jeff Wilson grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland & trained as a structural geologist.  He worked in mineral exploration around the world, settling in Vancouver in 2004, and took art classes at Emily Carr University, kick-starting a hobby that transitioned to a full-time art practice in 2013. 

Jeff’s painting collections have exhibited widely in public galleries in BC, Alberta and WA State. Highlights include the Art Gallery of St. Albert, Port Moody Arts Centre, The Langham, Okotoks Art Gallery, Smithers Art Gallery, Gibsons Public Art Gallery, ACT Gallery, Bellingham City Hall and the University of Washington Law School.  

Jeff has received a number of awards, including Finalist in the inaugural Saltspring National Art Prize, appeared in the recent “Landscape Artist of the Year Canada” TV show, and received two Downtown Eastside Small Arts Grants from the Vancouver Foundation. Jeff has completed residencies at the Booth in Shetland, Parks Canada’s Art in the Park and the Wallace Stegner House.    

His work is held in numerous private, public and corporate collections, including Alexco Resource Corp., BC Children's Hospital, Firehall Arts Centre, Le Dressay and Company, Lion’s Gate Foundation, MOI Solicitors, Salmon Arm Art Gallery, SimplexGrinnell, Smithers Art Gallery, Town of Okotoks, Union Gospel Mission, Vancity Credit Union, VGH Foundation and Victoria Gold Corp.  

Commercial representation includes Gray Sky Gallery (Seattle, WA), Hambleton Galleries (Kelowna, BC), Kube Gallery (Fort Langley, BC),  Van Dop Gallery (New Westminster, BC) and YKLM Auctions (Richmond, BC). 

Jeff Wilson is based out of Portside Studios in Vancouver.