The opening reception for my first exhibition was this past Friday, Nov 6, 2026, and I am so grateful for this entire experience and to the new Director at Pink Arrow, Heather Zeske, who curated the event! The reception was so much fun, although it was definitely a bit of a learning curve, especially with framing – which I am about to rant about for a full paragraph in case you were wondering.
Overall, the reception went really well; a few pieces have already sold which I am super happy about!
On to my promised paragraph about framing every piece. I hate framing. Truly that was the worst part about this entire process. Not only did it take hours to frame everything, I had to take a few back apart because there would always be something trapped under the glass that I didn’t catch. Or I would accidentally leave a finger print on the inside of the glass and would spend five minutes trying to clean a smudge that I never would’ve been able to get to. The cherry on top of those, albeit minor inconveniences, was when I drilled a hole through my thumb with my drill while installing the D-rings on the back of each frame. [side note, a D-ring is pretty much what it sounds like. It’s a ring in the shape of a D that gets attached to the back of frames so you can string wire through them in order to hang the piece as securely as possible.] Literally put my blood, sweat, and tears into framing these pieces and I sincerely hope to never frame a single piece ever again. All my future artwork will now be stapled to thin cardboard.
After everything was framed came drop-off. Which happened to fall on the exact date that I finished framing, what a coincidence and not at all due to my poor time management. Drop-off day went as well as it could have thanks to the help of the amazing former blog writer, Conchita. Thankfully everything managed to fit in my car (I did not have a backup plan if it didn’t) and the only slight issue was a 4 x 7 ft piece I had. I knew it wouldn’t fit in my car unfolded so we had to roll it up and honestly just hope it would be okay like that for the hour long drive. Spoiler: it was fine. Everything made it in one piece!
I was not curating the exhibition so all that I really had to do was drop it all off and get a price list made up. And that was it for the week until this past Friday! I unfortunately did not get many photos of the exhibition myself, but when I get some photos back from other people I will share those here! The exhibit was really wonderfully curated and, in my very biased opinion, all the pieces looked great together. It was super surreal seeing all my pieces like that. I don’t typically ever frame anything unless I’m putting art in an art show or giving it away as a gift. So as annoying and painful as framing was, it was worth it in the end to see all my pieces like that!
Thank you to everyone that made the trip all the way to Montrose, PA for the opening reception!
Editor’s Note: Good press! Congratulations Ana!
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