Workshop: Preparing Art for Gallery Shows
Sunday, March 30, 2025
2:00p-3:30pm
RSVP:
The Boston Comics Roundtable and the Footlight Club will host a hands-on art-framing workshop, led by artist E. J. Barnes, on Sunday, March 30th, at the Footlight Club’s Joy Cochran Gallery.
Are you a cartoonist or comics artist with art you want to display in the upcoming LGBTQIA+ themed show at the Footlight Club, or at any other gallery or gallery-like venue, or for Open Studios in your town?
How about a member of The Footlight Club who would like to show in one of our upcoming members’ art shows?
Then you’ll need to prepare that art for hanging!
You could go to a framing shop, but you’ll get better and less expensive results by learning to mount and/or frame your art yourself.
Good presentation will preserve your art, enhance its appeal, and value, to collectors, and make your studio walls look great.
This workshop is free to all but has limited space. Reserve your in person spot here.
The Workshop Topics
how to prepare art for framing
where to buy frames or frame sections online for maximum flexibility and value
Glass and glazing
different hanging systems
How to make galleries happy to show your work
E. J. Barnes will also show her special technique of displaying word balloons on comics art even if you added your lettering digitally for publication.
About E.J. Barnes
E. J. Barnes is a professional cartoonist based in Cambridge, MA. She has published many of her own comics as well as contributing to such anthologies as Hellbound, Inbound, and Colonial Comics. She has also exhibited and sold her work across the country. You can find more about E. J. Barnes’s work at www.ejbarnes.com.
Art featured in the photo above by Dan Mazur
For more information about The Joy Cochran Gallery, the art event and artist submissions, please contact curator@footlight.org