It's shaping up to be a great year here at the studio. We have lots of music jobs booked from our regular customers, and a some new clients also. Jeff also has a bunch of art prints coming out this year, some based on past poster art, the continuing Asian art series and some brand new original work. Jeff hopes for the first time in over twenty years to make some original paintings available to the public.
For over a year now, Jeff and I have known that we would be faced with either discontinuing or revamping the way we do subscriptions due to the changes in our studio, and how many and what kind of prints we are doing. We've also a need to somewhat structure our amount of time spent in the studio to allow for a more balanced work/home situation.
The way the subscription has worked in the last years will change this year. We've scheduled 16-20 music posters this year with the rest of the time to be dedicated to our own artistic pursuits and art prints. Trying to price a subscription to include both music posters and art prints was looking either cost prohibitive or had us tied to the press to fulfill a time prohibitive schedule with enough prints to justify that cost. Either way, we could not come up with a unified agreement on the matter.
We've instead made a very different decision to split the music posters and the art prints into two separate purchasing options.
The Music & Event subscription will be available for the cost of $500. This includes all posters done in 2008 for our music clients. There will be the usuals like Jam in the Dam, Umphrey's, PGroove, Derek Trucks, New Monsoon, Caribbean Holidaze, & Jam Cruise. The Gathering of the Nations (this one will be a litho print) and any Conscious Alliance prints will be included as well. The Music subscription will also include one special art print valued at $100 at some point during the year.
We are additionally setting up a Preferred Buyer Club section on our web site for the art prints we will be doing this year. An initial payment of $100 will give participants the guarantee of being able to purchase all art prints we create without having to sit in front of the computer hitting the refresh button on release day.
Here is the schedule & details for each of the 2 subscription options:
Music & Event Poster Subscription:
$500 includes all event posters created in 2008, one art print valued at $100 and includes shipping for 3 tubes. International subscriptions will be slightly more to compensate for additional shipping.
Shipments tentatively will be made in June, November and February of 2009.
Payments can be made in full or 1/2 down when reserving the subscription in March with the second half due in June.
Payments can be made through Paypal or by credit card, but we will require a valid credit card if Paypal is chosen or if the payments are broken down into 2 payments.
A certificate of Authenticity will be provided as validation for the set and will be sent sent with the last tube.
There will be a limit of 40 of these subscriptions with availability subject to renewing current subscribers who will be contacted first and given the opportunity to renew their subscriptions from last and previous years. Any available subscriptions will be added to the web site April 3rd and will be able to be purchased at that time first come, first serve via a link on our site.
Art Print Preferred Buyers Club:
A $100 initial payment reserves a guaranteed chance to buy one of any art print we produce in the next year. Preferred buyers will receive 10% off the retail price of the prints and their prints will ship first. This payment also includes a special art print as explained below.
The option to buy into the Preferred Buyers Club will be available until the 30th of September or until we reach our undisclosed limit, but will only allow early purchase on prints released after the buyer's membership has been initiated. Buyers cannot retroactively reserve or purchase prints at the discount, even if they are still available on our site.
We are leaving the number of PBC subscriptions available open right now. Print edition sizes will be determined to accommodate the number of Club members, as well as, a number available to the public and galleries. Edition sizes will be between 100 and 250 pieces on prints.
Though offered, PBC members are not obligated to buy every print. Reserve & purchase only the prints you want.
We will not be able to fulfill requests for specific numbers. Sorry, we tried to think of a way to do it, but it's just not possible at this time.
PBC members will be contacted upon each scheduled release and will have one week to submit their order and reserve a print. After that week is up, the print will be released to the public. Only Preferred Buyers will be able to purchase early or get the discount.
Here's the cool part: both subscriptions will receive a special art print valued at $100 or more at sometime during the subscription year. Jeff plans on doing this special print in a very limited edition for this. We want to make the packages a great value and well worth the money spent.
Our next art print will be released around April 17-18.
Membership can be initiated now our web site. There is a link on the main page.
I will try to answer any questions about the subscriptions here on our blog before we leave. When it's time for the first art print to be released, we will list more specific details about how to order.
