Hello everyone, my name is Daniel Field and this will be the only time I apear on this forum. Many of you know me as a local person and shop keeper/artist, I have been renting a store front on Eagle street for many years(in Eagle street time). I'm here to ask for feedback on how I'm doing and what I could do to improve my situation as a shopkeeper here in North Adams. I'm asking for honest criticisum and sugestions as to how I might do better.Please don't use this forum for this but just stop by and chat I'm open to what you have to say, I understand it can be hard to be brutally hunest but I hope you can feel free to give me some productive feedback.
For those of you who don't know me let me tell you of my situation.I came to North Adams by choice seven years ago. I was atracted by Mass Moca, not for the art so much but for the eccanomic resugence it would inspire. I live in Boston from the seventys to the ninetys and saw ecconomic recover in action and I know the drill. I came here to try to be in on it early. Iknow I can make a living in the building trades in a situation like this. It also doesn't hurt that Mass Moca is here, it makes North Adams a brand for promoting my art.
The rest of my life is not that pretty, I've been a life long recipient of disability paments for cronic depresion. The money that has been spent in my name for my codition has been enormose, and all I have to show for it is that I'm here ,still alive and actually willing to try to make something of myself ( I get a vauge sense that this is not exspected or aproved of in this comunity, if your getting a check you sopose to sit back greatfull but don't exspect to be considered a full human being). Well I'm sorry but I have something to give back, and if you knew how much of you tax dollars have been spent on me some of you would be demanding a little something back too!
Sorry for the rant there but I think you can see how I feel.
As far as my store front goes I've been renting it for almost seven years, as an alien outsider from out of town I was not recieved well and I knew up front that it wouldn't make any money but that I could hang on indefinetly with the rent package I had. This has given me a notariety in the art world and a few sale and many invitation to other art shows, some of whitch I acept. At this point I a'm a modest institution amungst the local and turist art world, the time spent on Eagle stret has not been wasted. Know I'm wondering what to do, I want to keep the storefront studio but the constant finacial streuggle seems not to be worth it as my art inventory dwindle away (and the comunity ignorsme and the rest of Eagle Street). I'm tired of just talking to friut cake and nut jobs, what will it take for sane people to come down to Eagle street again? I know many of you realy like my work but me being considered wierd, and being on Eagle street selling art, well thats just to much for people to take. so let me invite you down to my store Widgitz for a visit, please for give the visual confution and don't asume any sales presure, it's only art, it's there to look at you don't need to own it, but a little visit might raise your spirits and you may be able to advise me as to how I could do a better job.
Again I'm not comming back to this forum, don't waste the forums time talking about me. I need your feedback at the store where you can point and say what the heck is that thing doing here ect.. thank you for your time come by for a visit Dan Field owner/operator Widgitz 16 Eagle street North Adams thanks again
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