Hi Gretchen - congratulations!<div><br></div><div>Here is what I have learned in the last few months that might help:</div><div><br></div><div>As Linda says - plexi! (John Cody has a horror story about glass breaking and ripping the art in transit.)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Have you stood all the pieces up next to each other and considered whether it hangs together as a show? To look professional it needs some sort of coherence as a statement. Find it, whatever it is. You might find that changing a couple of your treatments would help.</div>
<div><br></div><div>And for overseas (my brother shipped a bunch of his art, unframed, to Paris recently) - consider that it might get hung up in customs on the way out and see what you can do to avoid that. Also how to minimize the VAT.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The crate - I am not much help to you, I used a local Chicago company and it was domestic anyway. They wrapped each piece in soft cardboard that bends like paper in one direction. And then they put everything into a big open crate with paper stuffing.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Question - will inbound customs open the crate and look at everything?</div><div><br></div><div>Good luck!</div><div>-Clara</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:39 AM, gretchen halpert <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]"><a href="/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A3%3D1105%26L%3DSCIART-L%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D831889%26B%3D--00248c7692a0fe989f04a300eb2e%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DISO-8859-1%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I&#39;ve searched the archives, read Bruce Bartrug&#39;s article, and had my own experience sending a piece or two overseas for a group show.<div>
Now I am looking into the logistics of mounting a solo show overseas and am looking for advice.</div>
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<font color="#666666">Clara Richardson<br>Associate, Zoology Dept.<br>The Field Museum<br>Chicago, IL  60605</font><br><br>
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