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What The Wine Walk Merchants Are Saying

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There is a web discussion over on the Artwalk web site (link pgartwalk.com dead) where you can read the merchant’s comments:

Robert Lewis
Saturday, September 01, 2007
Also, this money goes to support the Artwalk and you can say so to the patron. They can pay more if they want to, also.

Tessuti Zoo
Saturday, September 01, 2007
We find that a lot of folks come as couples or more. To charge more than $2 per person for 2-buck-chuck equivalent wine is a bit of an inconvenience to people who we hope will be current and future customers. As much as we want to support the chamber, let’s not make cost an issue where people will be having ill feelings if they want to buy some cheap wine.

Robert Lewis
Sunday, September 02, 2007
Actually, no one ever said anything about cheap wine. It’s up to you what you serve and it’s up to them whether they want to buy or not.

Robert Lewis
Sunday, September 02, 2007
I will have better quality wine this time because I agree that 2buckchuck might not go over. I think the patrons will understand it is for the support of the event too.
Also, if the fee is a around $4 to $5 or more we will raise more money and be able to eventually eliminate our participation fee.

Tessuti Zoo
Thursday, September 06, 2007
We’d certainly not like to be in the position of charging any more than a couple of dollars per person regardless of the cost of the wine.

Randall
Thursday, September 06, 2007
We also offer a compliment of foods. Little yummy bites, and so that all costs money as well. But $2 or $4 bucks of an evening of free wine is a great deal. People should be thankful, and if they are rude ingrate we will throw them out on their arses!! 🙂

studio lolo
Thursday, September 06, 2007
I don’t want to ask my patrons for more than $2, however. Besides, none of them are going to be prepared the first time around. Not everyone has their purses or wallets with them when they do the art walk.

Grand Avenue Art Works!
Thursday, September 06, 2007
I just had a conversation with Michele Roberson, the owner, and she feels very uncomfortable that we are in a sense nickel and dimeing our patrons.

This will be the last Art Walk that Grand Avenue Art Works! will actively participate in. It seems like far too much work, and not nearly enough fun.

Robert Lewis
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Cash, check, money order, Visa, Mastercard, etc.

Robert Lewis
Thursday, September 06, 2007
And, of course, you don’t have to serve wine at all.

Patti Reilly (BellaCosa Studio)
Thursday, September 06, 2007
People also have the option of choosing NOT to drink wine – or going some place else where they’ll be charged $7 or $8 for a glass of wine (and No Art!)

Robert Lewis
Friday, September 07, 2007
We can poll the public this way, giving them the website location. Although, I don’t know why we should poll the public. It’s confusing for us, won’t we just confuse the public more? I prefer NOT to poll the public.

The Loft
Friday, September 07, 2007
nothing too fancy nor too cheap, for we would like to make some profit that can work for us.

Lysakov Art Company
Saturday, September 08, 2007
I have no problem charging for wine, especaily if it keeps away the regular “cheese eaters” with strong body oder who don’t intend to ever buy anything and are only there for the free food and wine, although it is difficult to judge

Robert Lewis
Saturday, September 08, 2007
Last comment from me on this subject: if you serve wine you must charge. That’s the law. Break it at your own risk. I don’t care.
For those who plan to serve wine and not break the law, it is only a matter of what to charge. I recommend it be $2 per glass, the same amount the Art Center charges. No stickers to purchase, no tickets. Just $2 per glass of wine.
The poll yielded 50% in favor of $2, 33% in favor of $6, and 16% Other. Since the Other remains an unknown, let’s go with $2 per glass.

Lysakov Art Company
Saturday, September 08, 2007
Ok, we will charge $2 per glass after all. We will have pretty good wine so it’s a good deal, and I think if we just expain that we must charge to be in agreement with the law then people will understand, or they don’t have to buy any wine, they can just enjoy art and maybe music and some snacks. SO it’s pretty simple.

Grand Avenue Art Works!
Saturday, September 15, 2007
What the hey, you guys. Police, Sheriff and ABC on the scene. Very tawdry in my opinion. I had my most fun painting at Lisa’s. Luckily “skin” is not a controlled substance.

Tessuti Zoo
Friday, November 09, 2007
The Website is promoting the next ArtWalk as Dec. 14, instead of November 9. And the maps and press page still say September. This is confusing for those who visit the site. And do we need this wine debate still here for the public to see?

Artie
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Call Moe and ask for a refund.
It is interesting to read all you gallery owners fuss over the wine thing.

T. Kincaid
Sunday, November 18, 2007
The last time I read the comments page, it had onlly been updated to Sept 8. I deleted my comments at the time that I realized that this “forum” was open for the general public to read. Totally unprofessional to post what I thought were comments shared with other galleries trying to sort out the restrictions, illegalities, etc., of trying to conduct business in an adult, hospitable manner. As for asking Moe for a refund, perhaps it might be better to ask him what became of the press releases, advertising other than in the PG Bulletin, and banners that only appear on 2 galleries.
Best of luck, T. K.

What The Wine Walk Merchants Are Saying (pgartwalk.com link dead)

Wine Walk Will Have Art

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Wine will be served at the next Pacific Grove Artwalk scheduled from 6 to 9 p.m. on Aug. 10, said Artwalk organizers.

In May, wine was banned during the regular showcase of the town’s art galleries after Police Chief Darius Engles sent a letter to the Chamber of Commerce informing the organization that without licenses, merchants could not legally provide alcohol to the public during the event

Wine Walk Will Have Art

Art Galleries Attracting Crime?

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Three Eastern Europeans from Sacramento took a $40,000 painting from a San Carlos Street gallery Monday and then returned late that night to break in and steal more artwork, according to Carmel Police Sgt. John Nyunt.

But it was officer Rachelle Lightfoot, responding alone to an alarm at Simic New Renaissance Galleries just before midnight May 7, who captured two of the burglars at gunpoint.

“Officer Lightfoot found these individuals setting up to break into Simic gallery,” Nyunt said. After padding the glass in the gallery’s front door with newspaper to deaden the noise as they broke it, the burglars struck the glass with an unknown object. . .

Russian Men Theft Of Artwork

When a shop sold hardware, shoes or magazines no one would think of making a big get away robbing them. But when the goods are “valuable” art, all kinds of riff raff come out to visit. Are more art galleries really what we want all over town?

Art Galleries Attracting Crime?

Art Galleries Go Dry

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Wino Drunk Joseph Minton

A ban on serving wine during a regular showcase of Pacific Grove art galleries has uncorked spirited protests in the once-dry town.

Back at his art gallery, Robert Lewis said the wine caper is just a symptom of a greater problem: The city doesn’t have a clear vision for itself.

Hah! Chug some wine and wander in the fog – no one has a clear vision.

Art Galleries Go Dry

Art Gallery Invasion

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Looks like Bistros and Galleries are neck and neck. The transformation of PG into a wanna be Carmel is well underway. Next we ban ice cream cones and a celebrity will run for mayor . .

Lewis
Lewis Gallery Closed

Stokes Collection (says they are closing though it never seems to be open anyway)
Stokes

Is disabled access a possibility? Look at that threshold.
Impossibility

A loft in a single story building . .
Loft

One Eyed Art Stares at City Hall
One Eyed Art

Welter
Ed Welter Gallery

Bookworks took the books out and now calls it a Gallery.
Bookworks Gallery

And eek out some attention to the Interiors shop (what interior decorator would keep xmas lights up in April?)
Art And Interior

Art Gallery Invasion

Man Threatens To Blow Up Art Gallery With Book

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Philip Beeber, 58, entered the Classic Art Gallery at 6th Avenue and San Carlos Street around 6 p.m. and told the clerks to put their wallets in a Louis Vuitton bag or he would blow up the store, police said. He made the threat using a book, police officer Mike Calhoun said.

Louis Vuitton? A label conscious robber, no less.

Man Threatens To Blow Up Art Gallery With Book

Business Slow? Blame The Parked Cars

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From the Minutes of the Traffic Commission – November 14, 2006

A group of students from Monterey Peninsula College are developing a marketing plan for four (4) businesses on the west side of Grand Avenue between Lighthouse Ave. and Central Ave. They have observed large vehicles parking all day long in front of these establishments which blocks sight distance to the businesses. Passing vehicles on Grand Avenue have difficulty seeing the stores because of parked vehicles.

Large vehicles parked all day? So the two hour limit is not enforced there either.
So one idea is to extend your store signage to the street, just like Ariana Cafe once did.Parking Art Works

Or get the city to make the spaces in front of your business ‘loading zones’. Works for Victorian Corner.
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Or join the sandwich board club.

Sidewalk Sign Bijouterie

Is it the parked cars? No I think these kinds of shops belong in Carmel anyway. Business success means selling an item or service that people want. Do people come to PG for the Carmel experience?

Business Slow? Blame The Parked Cars

P.G. Artist Banned In Seaside

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Snick No Nudes

Farkas’ rendering, called Inanna in a Half Shell, was hanging for a week in a prime spot next to other works on the walls of Seaside City Hall. But for one visitor, Farkas’ painting showed just a little too much of the subject. The city’s Recreation Department asked the artist to remove the painting Friday.
Farkas arrived at City Hall and posted “censored” stickers over the nude’s intimate parts before taking it down.

P.G. Artist Banned In Seaside