No more galleries

Well, for now I am calling it quits on the gallery scene. I have pursued it for many years now and it just isn't worth my time, effort, and money. Long distance galleries are too big of a pain because I cannot monitor them and they need monitoring. I have had too many pieces, lost, broke, stolen, not paid for, or not on the gallery floor at these places and obviously I cannot visit them often enough to fix those situations. The galleries near where I live are too "home town" like to sell work within my price range. If they could, that would be the way to go. I have found that doing shows works best for me at this point. They are a lot of work, but I make sales and it pays off in the end. Right now my focus is getting the studio ready for this summer and my first round of classes. I see that as my primary income and selling my work as secondary.