The only way for me to efficiently prepare for any upcoming Lecture or Art Show exhibition is to create a checklist of items I need to complete to make a successful event. These contain Marketing items, preparing to show the Art, inventory items for sale & display and the advance staging & rehearsal.

For my latest upcoming Art Lecture at the Long Island Horticultural Society, I worked from this list if items. I really enjoy drawing lines through each task as I complete it so I can move on to the next.

The list is fluid & with each event I have to make adjustments but this is a fairly good outline to begin with.

Lecture To-Do List

Marketing

• Update my website
• Write blog post
• Write & send Press Release
• Create poster
• Email poster
• Create newsletter
• Email newsletter
• Post event to Facebook
• Post event to Fine Art America
• Post event to HAC
• Post event to NAC
• Print price lists
• Create & print handouts

Art Work

• Create Planting Fields paintings
• Get portraits printed
• Paint mixed media paintings

Inventory

• Inventory small prints for sale
• Inventory matted prints for sale
• Inventory note cards for sale
• Collect show-&-tell items

Staging & Rehearsal

• Update power point presentation
• Stage easels with lighting
• Stage & test presentation

From the Garden to the Wall- Lecture by the Artist, Mary Ahern