What is an ACEO?

What is an ACEO?
Artist's Cards, Editions and Originals (mine are all original works of art) are also known as Artist's Trading Cards.
Their defining characteristic is their size: 2.5x3.5 inches, the exact size of a baseball card.
They rose to popularity in the 70's among European artists who admired, but could not afford one another's artworks.
Today anyone can buy them for collecting and trading, or just frame and enjoy them.
There were 16,182 ACEOs for sale on eBay today, some at bargain prices, some at delusional prices.

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COVID-19 Leads to New Art Website

What did YOU do with the extra at-home time that has been a positive (?) side effect of the global pandemic?  I finished unpacking my art studio, only 8 months after moving into our new home.  

Lest some of you are picturing a mega mansion including a large room with a bank of windows bringing in the north light, let me confess that ‘my art studio’ is a corner of our bedroom.  On the plus side, I did well in the space negotiations that are an inevitable part of downsizing: I scored two closets for art, art supplies and shipping materials.  I am feeling rich.

Once that project was done, I no longer had an excuse not to work on my overall art marketing plan.  Beloved mentor (I know her online, she does not actually know me...) Mary Gilkerson ran her periodic free online course, The Rise of the Thriving Artist, and I started to actually DO some of the things she was suggesting.

Top of the list: get www.yourname.com up and running, so here I am.  

Thanks for joining me on the journey. 

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