Mark your calendars for the 2025 Portland Spring Home & Garden Show on February 20 – 23, 2025! Before the details on the space a few words about the event.
I see our group as all about education for ourselves and the public at large. Many people do not know that our group exists and much less that we offer a safe place to talk about making and sharing our experiences.
Many of the people who came by our space last year had never been to a gallery or seen any works, like ours, where they could get close enough to touch them. For our members who volunteered the event was an opportunity to see how people responded to the works and also to speak with real people about the why and how of making their pieces.
The event is also an opportunity to test and improve your own marketing skills.
We are allowed to sell works, like last year, and I expect that we will see much more traffic as this is the second year we are participating.
Changes for this year will be a demo area, the availability of space for vignettes (where multiple members could collaborate on an installation), a common space for member to show works, with support for hanging items from walls, the grids and more.
Now is the time to start making plans for works and more.
Where last year we had a 10 by 20 booth. In 2025 we have been given a 30 by 100 hallway to use for our venue to showcase works by members. The space is large enough for us to experiment and also provide much more space for attendees to see our works.
This space will allow us to use ten feet on each side of the hallway with a ten-foot-wide walkway down the center. Here is a picture of the space (note that the pipes shown here will not be present for us.)
Much of the great work from the Gathering of the Guilds team will be applied to the H&G show.
Specifics on the layout are a work in progress and more details will be forthcoming.
If you are interested in helping with the planning or exhibiting or more let bob know via email at ormcoupe@yahoo.com.