Celebrating Jazzy Style

Often times when I start a week I like to start it with a bang… this was very much the case for this week.  My best pal, Christine celebrated her husbands birthday party last Sunday here at the gallery. Now mind you these peeps know how to throw a good party – many of them are jazz musicians and singers if that will tell you anything.

It was a fun celebration and with lots of  notoriously famed musicians and vocalists including Ms. Christine  (which was really cool for me to have these people in the gallery).  It was quite a celebrated event and everyone had a great time and I know Noel was ecstatic! (Next time we will bring the congas and I’ll sit in!)

As the week moved forward I worked on getting my email newsletter out (SPFA quarterly newsletter that tells folks about new arty products, exciting news and of course this time… the new blog announcement!). I always feel blessed on the amount of subscribers that have been followers for several years and who still follow….  I now associate the email addresses with the faces they belong to… Thanks y’all!

I think one of the benefits of being an artist in a local area is being able to give back to the community, I feel that my art is a gift and that when I can share it in some capacity, it’s pretty cool.  This past Tuesday, I had Boy Scout Pack #390 come for a field trip, it was one of those visits where they needed to talk and learn from a local artist, discuss some artwork and shared some of their own stories about art and what they like to do. I was really impressed with how many questions were asked from these nice youths and how aware they were on some of the terminology we discussed.

Boy Scouts Pack #390 visits the Sonya Paz Gallery

Now for those of you who know me pretty well, will know and appreciate that I did not sugar coat the business of the artworld, I did tell them that it was a lot of work and that I do much of the grunt work here at the gallery, from emails to framing to shipping… even the  janitorial stuff.  All jobs need to be completed in order to run a successful business of any kind. I am a true believe in good ole’ customer service and I am truly the fashionista of wearing many hats in the workplace.

I know that a large part of their trip to the gallery was so they can achieved a cool merit badge, I do hope they received their badge, I would certainly give them an great score!

So here comes a new week and new jazzy inspirations, you never know what can happen around here next!