Taos, new mexico

     After the crazy year of festivals of 2022, I was looking for a more cost effective way to show and sell my work. I was represented in the Taos Artist Collective in Taos and Wildfire Gallery on Paseo in OKC. Sales were ok in those two galleries but I wanted to be more proactive in the sales process as well. Touring festivals was great and I sold a ton of art. My sales were over ten times what I had ever done previously! But my expenses to tour like that were over six figures! I needed a way to continue to actively sell my work and get it in front of a lot of art buyers. I found a beautiful gallery space in Taos, NM that had become available and it had living quarters too! I opened Taos New West Art Gallery on Kit Carson Rd. just a half block from the Plaza. It was in line with several other galleries up Kit Carson. Locals called it "Gallery Row". The gallery was a gorgeous 300 year old adobe building with a kiva fireplace in the main gallery. The gallery showed my work plus 10 other local and regional artists in the "New West" genre.

      Unfortunately, due to several factors, I made the difficult decision to close the gallery in November of the same year. Sales had been good but Taos was starting some construction and tourism projects that were going to very negatively affect traffic to the gallery. I needed to close before I started really losing money. It was a smart business decision but a tough emotional one. A lot was learned about opening and running a business. Overall, it was another pretty cool year. Still better than clocking in for someone else!