Calliope Galvez, one and a half, was having fun peeking through the photo op cut outs at the Downtown Williams Lake Art Walk booth at the Williams Lake Farmers’ Market on Aug. 11, 2023. (Ruth Lloyd photo – Williams Lake Tribune)

Meya Batty, right, eight years old, and Myles Batty, three years old, were painting at the booth celebrating the grand opening of the Art Walk in Williams Lake on August 11, 2023. (Ruth Lloyd photo – Williams Lake Tribune)

Xavier Vivier, three, was playing a bit of a game peeking through the photo op cut outs at the Downtown Williams Lake Art Walk booth at the Williams Lake Farmers’ Market on Aug. 11, 2023. (Ruth Lloyd photo – Williams Lake Tribune)

Tanis Armstrong is one of the Art Walk artists this year, and was at the Williams Lake Farmers’ Market to help promote the event. (Melinda Mitchell photo – Williams Lake Tribune)

The 2023 Downtown Williams Lake Art Walk was celebrating the grand opening of the month-long community event with activities for all ages at the Friday farmers’ market.

Downtown Williams Lake’s Sherry Yonkman, executive director, and Amanda Fuller, event coordinator, were busy hosting a number of things for farmers’ market patrons on Aug. 11.

From fun photo cut outs to sidewalk chalk art to painting self portraits and colouring pages, the booth was offering up activities along with information in the annual art walk guide.

This year’s art walk includes 30 artists being featured in 30 downtown locations, 11 of those artists are new to the art walk this year.

Art walk is a self-guided tour through downtown venues, where patrons get to stop into local businesses and buildings to see local art displayed. Guide books provide a map, information on the artists and a “passport” to collect stamps which then allows for walkers to enter into a draw to win some art from their favourite artist.

Art walk has been going on in Williams Lake since 1999 and is a beloved annual event which provides citizens with a great way to explore the community, celebrating local businesses and artists.

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Welcome to the Art Angle, a podcast from Artnet News that delves into the places where the art world meets the real world, bringing each week’s biggest story down to earth. Join us every week for an in-depth look at what matters most in museums, the art market, and much more, with input from our own writers and editors, as well as artists, curators, and other top experts in the field.

So… how is the art market doing these days?

If you want to know the answer, you’re in luck, because the latest issue of Artnet’s biannual Intelligence Report just dropped. It’s a special edition, marking  the five-year anniversary of the report, which we debuted back in 2018 as a way of fusing Artnet’s unparalleled market data with the industry-leading abilities of our market journalists.

Unfortunately, the findings this time around are less than festive—in fact, the art market has taken a major hit this year.

To quickly review a few bracing data points collected between January 1 and May 20 of this year—auction sales of trophy lots $10 million dollars and above plummeted 51 percent compared to the equivalent period last year; the fine-art auction market as a whole tumbled 14 percent, to $5 billion dollars worldwide; and, tellingly, the much-speculated-upon Ultra Contemporary art sector of work by artists born after 1974 fell down by 26 percent.

After years of steady growth in the market, these are very troubling numbers—and if you’re an auction house, or an auction consigner, you may be a little freaked out right now.

So hat does this mean? Should art professionals be panicking in the streets? Or should they be doing something else… and maybe making a lot of money in the process?

Recently these questions were at the heart of a live conversation, exclusive for Artnet Pro members, that editor in chief Andrew Goldstein conducted with the Art Detective columnist herself, senior reporter Katya Kazakina, based on Katya’s tour-de-force cover story on the state of the art business in the new Intelligence Report, available to read in full here.

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Submitted by Bellingham Exit

Bellingham Exit, a multi-day, multi-stage, multi-sensory experience will be held in downtown Bellingham from Wednesday, Oct. 11 through Sunday, Oct. 15. The festival will feature music, art, comedy, dance parties, art vendors, and curiosities on the fringe of expectations.

The line-up includes Deltron 3030 (reunited hip-hop project), The Hu (Mongolian metal legends), Monet X Change (RuPaul’s Drag Race), Marc Maron (stand-up comedian and screenwriter), Joe Pera (stand-up comedian), The Pharcyde (classic hip-hop artists), Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway (bluegrass Grammy winner), The Funk Hunters (funky electronic duo) and many more.

Exit the Ordinary

Familiar downtown music venues will transform into living, breathing art installations. Bellingham Exit draws comparison to other events that take over cities like South By Southwest, Treefort Music Festival, and Iceland Airwaves but it’s set apart by its art-forward approach, themed this year after Bellingham’s “natural world.”

Exit’s Core Venues — Wild Buffalo (The Nest Stage), The Shakedown (Mush Room Stage), The Blue Room (Moon Emporium Stage), New Prospect Theater (Deep Sea Comedy Stage) — will be brought to life by WWU professor Mark Kuntz and the team at Bellingham Theatreworks.

The inaugural Bellingham Exit includes free concerts in unexpected spaces supported directly by local businesses. Community partners are scheduled to host these DIY, pop-up style shows around the city and will include Ritual Records, Black Noise Records, Red Rum Tiki Bar, Champlin Guitars, Culture Cafe, Bantam, Mallard Ice Cream, Gruff Brewing, and The Upfront Theatre.Attendees will also find treasures and culture at Bellingham Bazaar, a two-day indie art market with more than 30 PNW vendors and craftspeople, produced by BE. 

Ticketing/RSVP

A limited 200 festival passes will be available for Bellingham Exit offering fans priority access to all events throughout the week. Individual tickets will also be available, as well as various “free with RSVP” events throughout downtown.

Learn more and get tickets at www.bellinghamexit.com. 

Who is Bellingham Exit?

A team of local and regional industry professionals compile the Exit team. Hunter Motto is the music director for Bellingham festival Northwest Tune-Up, creative director at legendary Seattle venue the Crocodile, and a Western Washington Alumni. Off the heels of this year’s successful second Northwest Tune-Up festival, Hunter and his team aim to grow and elevate the local music and arts community through Bellingham Exit.

Sotheby’s reported a 24 percent year-on-year decline in profit for its U.K. operation in 2022, citing art market and global economic uncertainties, as well as increased red tape as a result of Brexit, according to the auction house’s latest Companies House filings in the U.K.

The filing, made on July 19, which The Art Newspaper first reported, showed that the auction house’s U.K. arm recorded an after-tax profit of £26.2 million 2022, against 2021’s £34.5 million. Overall turnover, however, was only down by two percent to £150.9 million in 2022, down from 2021’s £154.8 million.

While turnover from auction revenue generated in the U.K. dipped to £131.4 million in 2022 from 2021’s £135.7 million, turnover from private sales increased slightly from £19 million to nearly £19.6 million. The increase came mainly from the U.K. and Europe. Private sales turnover originated in the U.S. last year was only 36 percent of 2021’s amount, and that from Asia was down by more than 50 percent.

Increase in cost of sales as well as administrative expenses appear to be the biggest contributors to the decline in profit. The cost of sales was up by nearly 55 percent to £25.4 million from 2021’s £16.4 million. Administrative expenses increased by 2 percent year on year to £106 million in 2022.

The auction house pointed to Brexit as driving the surge in costs, according to filings. Brexit “has increased volatility and uncertainty in global financial markets, economic conditions, and Pound Sterling exchange rates,” which may all impact the demand and supply of discretionary goods, it said.

The U.K’s imports of art and antiques went down by 18 percent in 2021 compared to that in 2020, and a further decrease by 16 percent in 2022, “and this may worsen over time,” the statement read. “The increased red tape resulting from Brexit is adversely impacting our ability to move property between the U.K. and the European Union and the retention and travel of our employees, further contributing to the U.K. art market’s decline.”

Selling works in the U.K. also became less appealing due to those administrative burdens and higher import and export taxes and other duties, and as a result, the amount and quality of consignments for the London saleroom was “negatively affected.”

There has not been a comprehensive report on how Brexit has affected the U.K.’s art market, which was the world’s second biggest in 2022, accounting for 18 percent share of global sales, according to data from a UBS and Art Basel report. But E.U.-based dealers previously told Artnet News during London’s Treasure House Fair that bringing art to London had cost them 20 percent more compared to pre-Brexit days.

The war in Ukraine had no direct impact on the operations of Sotheby’s U.K., according to the filings. Sotheby’s said Russian clients represented less than one percent of the house’s global client activity in 2022 and 2021. The house and its subsidiaries do not host sales in Russia and an administrative office in Moscow was closed following the outbreak of the war. The auction house has ensured full compliance of the legal requirements and sanctions imposed in light of the situation.

Sotheby’s in London did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Dogs have been humans’ best friends throughout the ages, so it’s no surprise that they’ve also been prime subjects of art—the first works depicting pups date back more than 8,000 years. A group show opening at Hashimoto Contemporary this month extends this long-running tradition through paintings, ceramics, and plush sculptures that look to our canine pals and their wide range of antics for inspiration.

For the Love of Dog features works of over thirty artists who dig up adoration, fear, and other affinities for the beloved companion species: Katie Kimmel sculpts scrunched-up rolls on a chunky basset hound, Joey Wolf’s lounging gray bulldog takes on human characteristics, and Debra Broz (previously) splices a chaotic pack of pups that makes it difficult to distinguish heads from tails.

A playful and heartfelt ode, For the Love of Dog is on view from August 19 to September 9 in Los Angeles.

Katie Kimmel, “Daytona Peppers” (2023), ceramic, 16 3/4 x 12 x 12 inches

Joey Wolf, “Girl in Pink Armchair” (2023), oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches

Debra Broz, “Dog Pile” (2023), secondhand ceramics and mixed media, 16 x 15 x 20 inches

Jillian Evelyn, “Olie” (2022), acrylic on wood panel, 24 x 18 inches

Stephen Morrison, “Orchids” (2023), oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches

Jodie Niss, “Untitled” (2023), oil paint on wood panel, 8 x 10 inches

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SARATOGA SPRINGS — Come and visit Saratoga Spring’s Beekman Street Arts District. On Friday, Aug. 18, Beekman Street Arts District is hosting a Friday Night Art Market from 5-8 p.m. (weather permitting/rain will cancel the event). 

There will be refreshments, live music, an array of local and visiting artists, craft demonstrations, aritist plein air painting on site, artisan demonstrations and more. Come shop, browse, and spend time with friends and family while supporting artists and local businesses.

Admission if free. The next Friday Art Market will take place September 22. For more information visit saratogaartdistrict.com.

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August 17, 2023

SANTE FE — More than 900 American Indian artists from the United States and Canada submitted more than 1500 pieces of art for juried competition in the 101st Santa Fe Indian Market.

The Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA) organizes the world’s largest Indian arts and crafts market where enrolled members of state and federally recognized tribes compete in 242 categories of American Indian fine and traditional art.

Artists are allowed to submit up to three pieces in the juried competition, where their submissions are categorized in 242 categories, 197 adult and 45 youth, including traditional textiles, pottery, quillwork, beadwork, 2D and 3D art, jewelry, moccasins, basket weaving and many more arts and crafts categories. Artists are permitted to compete in more than one category, but not with the same piece, and are allowed to collaborate with other artists so long as it does not surpass three total entries. 

The Southwestern Association of Indian Arts officially received more than 1500 American Indian traditional and fine art submissions for the 101st Santa Fe Indian Market on Wednesday for juried competition in 242 separate categories. (photo by Darren Thompson for Native News Online)

The juried competition is conducted the day after SWAIA receives artist submissions and is not open to artists or to the public. Judges are chosen by organization staff, who are experts or leaders in their craft and are trained to survey and review each piece of art in the category they are judging in. They then select prize winners in each Category, Division, Classification and Best of Show, which comes with a $15,000 cash prize. Judging is recorded and judges are not permitted to bring their personal phones or cameras into judging. 

There are three judges in each specific classification area, including jewelry, pottery, two-dimensional art forms including paintings, drawings, graphics and photography, wooded Pueblo figurative carvings, Youth in three separate divisions—9 years and under, 10 years old to 13 years old, and 14 years old to 17 years old, textiles, diverse arts forms, beadwork and quillwork, and basketry. 

“It was super heartwarming and made me feel so grateful that the artists were here with smiles and ready to submit their pieces,” said Mona Perea, one SWAIA’s Artist Services coordinators, to Native News Online. “Our volunteers are the golden piece in the SWAIA team. Kuu daa woh ha for your trust and dedication. All love, Team SWAIA!”

In the beadwork and quillwork category, judges will evaluate the source and quality of materials used, as well as the combination of form, design, and technique. Beadwork and quillwork are separated into traditional and contemporary categories. Plastic and synthetic materials are not allowed in the making of the item unless the item is used, historical, or traditional accuracy. All categories require full submission of materials used to make the item, including if something was acquired commercially or produced traditionally. 

Some submissions are not accepted though and while there isn’t an official count, some cannot be accepted for a variety of reasons, including if something is already manufactured, like a vehicle. 

Many people volunteer their time, including judges in the juried art competition. The historic Indian market attracts crowds well above 100,000 people to celebrate American Indian culture and art as well as meet the artists. Art submissions often take months to make, and some of them years. Many volunteers have been participating in the Santa Fe Indian Market for decades and share that each year, submissions surpass expectations and can often become challenging to categorize because they incorporate multiple art forms. 

“We could not pull off Santa Fe Indian Market without all of our volunteers,” said SWAIA Executive Director Jamie Schulze at Wednesday’s reception at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center. 

Robert Martinez, a painter from the Wind River Indian Reservation, submitted a painting and a ledger drawing in the art competition and said he hopes to win for the weekend, but said the one thing he is looking forward to the most is visiting all the other artists and people. This is Martinez’s 12th year showcasing at the Santa Fe Indian Market. 

“I hope all the artists have a great weekend and sell a lot of their work,” Martinez said of his hopes for the weekend. 

Jonathan R. Beno, a Navajo silversmith and fine artist from Albuquerque, submitted an oil painting for the two-dimensional category. This is Beno’s first time as an artist in the Santa Fe Indian Market. The one thing he looks forward to the most is seeing all the other art. 

Juliana Romano, SWAIA’s Membership and Volunteer Coordinator, said to Native News Online all of the volunteers were excited to participate in the day’s events. “We are all thrilled with receiving today’s art, and our volunteers, judges, runners, leaders, and organizers are looking forward to an exciting 101st Santa Fe Indian Market,” she said.

The Santa Fe Indian Market is scheduled to take place on Saturday, August 19 through Sunday, August 20 at the Santa Fe Plaza in downtown Santa Fe. The 101st Santa Fe Indian Market Best of Show Ceremony is on Friday, August 18 at 11:30 am at the Santa Fe Community Civic Center. 

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