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Artists Association of Nantucket
ART CLASSES EVENTS

Course Description

Presenting your artwork professionally is an essential part of exhibiting. From framing and wiring to transport and installation, each step shapes how your work is experienced. This one-day workshop helps artist members build confidence and clarity around preparing work for display.

Participants will learn the fundamentals of exhibition readiness, including tools and hardware, best practices for wiring and hanging, framing options, and strategies for protecting and transporting artwork. The workshop also covers key aspects of exhibiting through the Artists Association of Nantucket, including AAN’s commission structure and how commissions are managed.

Additional topics include replacing sold work, promoting your art through social media, maintaining your AAN profile page, understanding themed shows, and engaging with visitors and collectors at receptions.
Ideal for both emerging and experienced artists, this workshop offers practical skills and professional insight to help you present your work with confidence and navigate the exhibition process from start to finish.

Cancellation Policy

AAN depends upon student tuition to continue to offer classes and workshops. Due to our commitment to small class sizes and the hands-on nature of art education, we are greatly impacted by cancellations. Nevertheless, we do understand that plans change. If you need to cancel your reservation for a class or workshop, please note our cancellation/refund policy here and let us know as soon as possible.

Materials

One Day Workshop: Preparing Your Artwork for Exhibition,18+

Robert Frazier

I've been with AAN in about every capacity since 1972...janitor (at first), artist, etc. until today as artistic director. I was born in Ayer, MA. My father taught cryptography for Army Security there at Fort Devens after working with the earliest forerunners of the computer, including Turing’s *bombe* at Bletchley Park, England, during WWII. My mother was a librarian and an oil painter who studied with Emile Albert Gruppé in Gloucester as a teen and with Philip Burnham Hicken on Nantucket in her later years. The code-breaking science of deciphering gibberish into plain text somehow has meshed with a penchant for deciphering the natural world with impressionistic imagery in my own painting, a craft I basically learned from my mother, tho in the mid-1970s I studied with Phil Hicken as well.
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