Jeanette and Steve secure the new system

Adding artwork to the new display

I found some “little gems” for the show

Earlier this month fellow artist Jeanette Carson and I teamed up to share a booth at this year’s Garden Art Fair (Reiman Gardens, Ames, IA), using the new display system shown here. Jeanette and her husband Steve have been going to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore, picking up hollow doors and painting them white. We have enough to fill a 10′ x 10′ booth space.

Jeanette helps me with the practicalities of art shows (we plan to have a booth at the Octagon Art Festival September 24, and we both currently have artwork at the Octagon Shop in Ames). Steve helps us load the van and builds whatever we need.

At the Reiman show I sold watercolors and fabric artwork and saw many old friends who remembered when The Left Bank Studio lived in the bank building in Gilbert (now home to The Vault, “casual coffee stop and eatery”).