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Trends, Trends, and More Trends!
Walking the Atlanta Gift Show is always an abundance of inspiration for ALSC art licensor Kristi Caterson! With a solid background in furniture making and a passion for home decor and painting, she has a unique eye for spotting stand-out designs and trends. For the second year in a row, Kristi has shared with our […]
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Angela Davis ~ Art Licensing through the Agent Lens
Happy New Year from the Art Licensing Show! We are happy to bring you another Limelight Licensor feature article! We have a plethora of talented folks in the ArtLicenisngShow.com (ALSC) community and we are honored to introduce you today to an agent that represents many accomplished art licensing professionals. Today we spoke with art licensing agent Angela Sauro Davis. She has a background in publishing […]
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Vicky Yorke ~ Getting an Agent, Keeping up with Trends, & Art Licensing
Hello, everyone, and welcome to a new Artist Limelight article! We are overjoyed to present to you another ArtLicenisngShow.com (ALSC) artist! Today we spoke with Vicky Yorke, a surface pattern designer, and illustrator from the UK. Vicky started her career working with stationary, craft, and homeware manufacturers, which eventually lead her to a career in licensing. She was delighted to talk […]
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ALSC 3rd Annual Holly Jolly Christmas ART Show!
Welcome to ALSC’s 3rd Annual Holly Jolly Christmas ART Show! We’re celebrating our 3rd year posting Christmas art at ArtLicensingShow.com with portfolio members, open-submission of Holly Jolly Christmas ART. It’s that time of the year again! Warm hugs, hot coco mugs, and bright lights warm everyone’s heart this holiday season! We love Christmas time and all of the […]
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Trend Table November 2018 Report
As commercial artists who create original artwork for the market, licensing artists like to know what the emerging, continuing and future trends are in the marketplace. Since it can take a year or more from some products to be available to purchase, we need to work far in advance and take into consideration how quickly the […]
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ALSC 3rd Annual Art & Gratitude Parade
Welcome to our 3rd Annual Art & Gratitude Parade! As Thanksgiving approaches we want to come together and celebrate art that is all about gratitude. Art Licensing Show Portfolio Members are welcome to join in this open-submission of Thanksgiving and gratitude art. We choose to be grateful. ALSC is inviting out “Portfolio Artists” (or their agent!) to […]
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Barb Tourtillotte ~ Flexibility, Meeting Deadlines, & Art Licensing
Welcome, everyone, to another Artist Limelight article! We are so excited to present to you another ArtLicenisngShow.com (ALSC) artist! Today we spoke with Barb Tourtillotte, a creator with nearly 30 years of industry experience. Barb has worked on everything from fabrics and rugs to eyeglass cases and dinnerware and was excited to talk about her experiences in the industry, […]
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Abbey Gift Tumbler Gift Design Challenge WINNERS!
Abbey Gift has selected their TOP 6 Mother’s Day/Father’s Day Designs for ArtLicensingShow.com 2018 Tumbler Gift Design Challenge! About 70 designs were submitted from ArtLicensingShow.com® (ALSC) Portfolio Members and all invoked the warm and loving fuzziness you want your parent to feel on Mother’s or Father’s Day. We collaborated with Abbey Gift to try something new and encouraged artists to submit […]
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Design Design Birthday Card Challenge Winners
Design Design® has selected their TOP 6 Birthday Card Designs for ArtLicensingShow.com 2018 Greeting Card Art Challenge! Dozens of celebratory designs were submitted from ArtLicensingShow.com® (ALSC) Portfolio Members and are sure to delight and entertain at future birthday parties around the globe. Thank you to all of the ALSC Portfolio Members who participated. We partner with art directors year-round […]
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Art Licensing Show’s 3rd Birthday Virtual FIESTA
Welcome to ArtLicensingShow.com celebration central. We have SO many fun things planned this month. Bookmark and share this page so you and your licensing friends can stay in the know as we announce new prizes and activities each week! This is the time of year we THANK this amazing community of artists that we are blessed […]
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PRO Activate Your Art Licensing Journey
LEARN THIS! > LIVE EVENT! If you build it, they might not magically come…Don’t worry, there is something you can do move things along. Learn how you can move from quietly sitting pretty as a licensing artist to pro-actively engaging your dream companies and closing the deal! This is a special event hosted on the Art of Licensing […]
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2018 NEW YEAR NEW COLLECTION CHALLENGE
Welcome to the ArtLicensingShow.com NEW YEAR NEW COLLECTION Art Challenge! What a better way for a portfolio group site to kick off a new year than to showcase new images from the members. In January, we asked the Art Licensing Show Portfolio members to submit collection previews for their freshest works to show here on our blog, […]
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Trends, TIPS & Whispers – Reflections from Atlanta Gift Mart Jan 2018
by Kristi Caterson Trends, Trends In Progress (TIP’s), and Emerging Trends (Whispers) Have you ever noticed what you notice? As Cherish Flieder and I travel to major cities and walk different art-related trade shows, especially the Atlanta Gift Mart, we often talk about trends and things that stood out to us on a visual or […]
