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Seeking Sponsors for Heartspace Show, Starting at Just $10

10/1/2019

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Hearts Are Messy by Kim-Lee Kho. Inks and acrylic paint pen on Chinese mulberry paper; approx. 30" x 18"; 2018. Can be an image for a sponsorship reward or the original is also available for purchase. Contact me for pricing.
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Detail view of Hearts Are Messy. I actually like closeups on this piece a lot, so much that I may produce some prints of those. Let me know if you're interested.
Would you consider becoming a sponsor of Heartspace to help me make the best show I can?

Your interest in and support of my work here (and in-person) means so much, thank you! It spurs me to push myself to do the best work I can.

You may have noticed that I have an upcoming solo exhibition, my first as a member of The Red Head Gallery. Heartspace runs Oct 30–Nov 23, 2019; reception Saturday Nov 2 from 1–4pm; 401 Richmond St West in Toronto.

This is the first time I’ve asked this, but if you know me and my work then you know I do my utmost to create artworks, installations and experiences for artlovers like you to enjoy, and I hope find thoughtful, moving, sometimes challenging, always 🤞 interesting.

My last couple of shows left me gutted financially. So I am asking for your support, by considering sponsoring Heartspace, to help me complete the new pieces and formats. 

Sponsorship is easy and starts at just $10 
Either an email transfer (via online banking) or use the PayPal button below, no account required. 
EMAIL Transfer (see below)
No link, just use your online banking and kimandkal@me.com as my address
PayPal (no acct needed)
This button above will take you directly to PayPal.

Please also send me your email address so I can confirm your name and we can communicate regarding your reward!
Reward Levels:
I will thank all sponsors – at any level – on signage at the exhibition as well as on my website. Some levels include gifts (see below). Please let me know if you prefer anonymity.

💲10 Please accept my sincere thanks 
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💲25 My thanks plus I will mail you a set of 3 cards with envelopes, featuring heart-based images 💌
💲60. My thanks plus I will mail you a special edition art print on 5” x 7” hot press paper, signed by me ✍️
💲100 My thanks plus a special edition art print on letter-size (8.5” x 11”) hot press paper OR a similar hand pulled film-based transfer print (featuring irregularities from the process), signed by me, with a handwritten thank you note 📝
💲250 or more Larger print? Small original drawing? Suggest something and we can discuss! 🎁 

Fulfillment would begin at the end of the exhibition.

I will be making regular sponsorship posts on social media over the coming weeks, featuring different art images, and repeating this info there so no one has to go hunting for it.
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You can find me on:

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Thanks SO MUCH much for reading and considering! 

Heartfelt thanks to my new sponsors!
It means the world to me and to my Heartspace show! If you are able to attend the reception be sure to collect your special sponsor-hug!
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Three Giant Scrolls Get an Airing

6/28/2016

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Above: Standing in front of "Double Happiness, Three's a Crowd" scrolls at Art-Spread in Port Credit, June 18/19. Photo by Sandra Robson.

Top left: Drawing Louis Armstrong for the #dailyheroes series live at the same event, with another artist's (Nisreen's) drawing of an imaginary face showing in the foreground. Photo by Meena Chopra.
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Left: Louis Armstrong drawing completed. I chose a serious photo of him to work from because his glorious smile so easily overshadows the man's genuine genius.


It was a busy and fun weekend in Port Credit (Mississauga) on June 18 and 19 at Art-Spread where I was one of over a dozen artists/artisans showing and demonstrating what I do. 
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Lots of people I know came to visit (only one had ever seen the scrolls live before), and if you were one of them, thank you.
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Below: The scrolls provided a focal point for the whole show in that vaulted space. Photo by Sandra Robson.
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Left: The whole group of us! Photo courtesy Sandra Robson.
This was the first time the scrolls had been on display in four years! I have fresh ideas on where I might exhibit them next. If you have any suggestions, please let me know in the comments below or via my contact form in the menu above.
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An Artist's Adventures in Publicity: How I Made the Front Page!

2/7/2015

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Pinch me. Yes, that's me on the front page of The Brampton Guardian. The adjacent photo shows the article on page 11, based mostly on an interview with me.

Most people who know me know I do what I can to get the word out about shows, talks, workshops and other events. My philosophy is simple: if I don't invest time and energy in doing that, how will anyone know? Why would I do or offer any of those things if I don't want anyone to know about them?

A lot of artists shy away from promotion and publicity. I can understand why. 

The kind of person whose life ambition is to maximize the time they spend alone in their studio listening to their own train of thought may not gravitate naturally to putting themselves “out there”. As well, there is a set of skills and knowledge involved. 

In my first career as a designer/art director, I worked a lot in both promotion and direct mail. Those are not necessarily considered the premium areas to specialize in, and not because of budgets (some mailings numbered in the millions!). I believe one reason is that the results were so incredibly and immediately measurable. They were both very much a numbers game.

Every promotion and mailing had specific, tangible goals such as how many orders were placed? How many entered the contest? What kind of traffic numbers visited the booth? And so on.

Everything about the visuals, the writing, and the offers (price, free gift, contest, that kind of thing) was geared toward getting a measurable response while being consistent with the brand (which I always thought of as the "voice").

This is not the kind of thing that gets most artists excited, and while of course the work is the most important thing, if that work is meant to be seen in the world, never mind sold, we need to get first some skills in marketing and publicity, and secondly, just a little bit excited about coming up with a good turn of phrase, or an incentive or increasing our email list size.

Back to my photographs: This is my first front page for an exhibition. The only other time I made it onto a cover was when I wrote an article for The Root my alumni magazine (you can check it out by clicking here, the article is on page 17).

More than a little luck was involved in making it onto this front page: first the curator had to invite me to be in the show; then she had to give other spotlights to the other two artists so that I became the press focus; the show needed to be at a high profile venue like the Living Arts Centre; an editor had to decide that maybe the photograph would be a nice addition to the front page, or the content would improve the mix of stories.

Luck tends to find you more if you're putting yourself “out there” of course. So don't be a wallflower :-)
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The kind of person whose life ambition is to maximize the time they spend alone in their studio listening to their own train of thought 
may not gravitate naturally to 
putting themselves “out there”. 
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    Kim-Lee Kho

    As a visual artist I like nothing more than getting up to my elbows in paint or little plastic toys, or wading in at the deep end in pursuit of an idea. When I am not teaching others in a similar vein, you can find me researching, writing and noodling around in my studio, seeing where my latest lines of inquiry lead me.

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