SPACE: The Final Frontier

There’s one thing every artist need and seldom has; space, space to store their work, space to hang their work, space to display their best. You could buy a small warehouse with a fourteen hundred foot home attached, but I hear those are hard to find or you could like some of the really, really good artists, I won’t name names, but you know who I am talking about, just get so good and famous and develop so many contacts that your work fills galleries and museums and is never at home.

Yes, I will admit that that can pose its own set of problems. Maybe you’ve even taken advantage of the many shows in the area and have work in all of the local venues. Those shows, wonderful though they are have one terrible fault, they end. Then you have all of the work you placed in the show and all of the work you didn’t place in the show and all of the work which you did while your work was out at the show and now you look like one of those people on Hoarders! Yikes this really is a problem.

There is a way, however especially for artists with larger pieces. Josie’s On Broadway will hang large works for up to three months and allows those works to be for sale. You know Josie’s? It’s the salon on Broadway next to the public parking lot and almost directly across from the Egyptian theater.

Here’s a thought, take in some art, get your hair done and have lunch at El Sombrero. That’s food for the spirit, soul and stomach all in one fell swoop. I suppose you could not swoop if it bothers you to fell in public.

Josie, the captain of her ship, the patron of the arts and the owner of the salon is nine and a half feet tall, and strikingly beautiful and it can be intimidating to come art in hand to seek a boon, but then you don’t have to risk being on a reality show where people will cluck about how much stuff you have in your house.

So, Josie’s on Broadway, 222 S. Broadway, Coos Bay, 97420, 541-269-0204, the place for all of your art display desires. Just think, how many people pass trough a museum or gallery and how many go to a salon?

And yes, I have heard all about the theory that the fumes from the chemicals used in the salon could damage your work and ruin a piece which you devoted a life-time to and besides showing in a salon isn’t very dignified.

How dignified is languishing in a dark closet or suffering mildew damage or water damage when the grandkids visit and backup the indoor plumbing. I’ll bet you’d like your art hanging on a nice, public wall then, right?