Tips for Hanging Art

The art of hanging art came up at an appointment this week as one of my clients, frustrated by where her husband had hung their artwork (high), asked me where I thought the paintings should have been hung. Here are the tips I gave them:

• Artwork should be hung so that the center point of the picture or the grouping is at eye level for the average person.


• With the above in mind, it should also be hung from eye level of where the art is most often enjoyed. Higher if you view the art standing as in a gallery and lower if usually seated as in a dining room.


• When hanging a group of pictures, treat them as one unit. Test the arrangement by laying them out on the floor or make paper templates and tape the paper on the wall to determine where the hangers should be installed.


• Relate the art to the wall size. Choose smaller pictures for narrow walls and larger pictures for big spaces. Keep in mind that small pictures can be hung vertically over each other to fill a long narrow space and two pictures can be hung horizontally to fill a large one.


• Relate art to the size of the furniture. Generally, a piece of art should not be wider than the table width nor should it be heavier in feeling than the piece below it.
  

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State of the Arts

SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR THE ARTS WITH A STATE OF THE ARTS LICENSE PLATE!


Did you know that for every State of the Arts specialty license plate sold in Sarasota County, $20 is returned to the Sarasota County Arts Council, which can be used to fund a variety of community-based cultural programs? Specifically, the Arts Council uses license plate money to fund its Opportunity Grant program, designed to assist cultural organizations throughout Sarasota County with project grants.
However, this year's sales of State of the Arts license plates are running well behind last year. As of the end of May, only 783 of these plates have been sold in Sarasota County (183 new issues and 600 renewals), which is approximately 35 percent fewer than this time last year. Sarasota County is running significantly behind Broward County (1,280), Palm Beach County (1,050), Pinellas County (1,050), and slightly behind Miami-Dade County (825).
WE WANT TO BE NUMBER ONE! We are beginning a campaign to encourage our citizens to purchase plates in support of our arts and cultural community. This is an issue of advocacy as well as civic pride in our community's cultural vitality. If we can become the county with the greatest number of State of the Arts plates sold, it will speak to the importance of arts and culture to our community, as well as generate more revenue that can be used to benefit our cultural organizations.
So, stop by your tag office today and show your support for the arts! In Sarasota, there are two locations: 101 S. Washington Blvd., First Floor; 861-8300; and 601 S. Pompano Ave; 361-6217. In Venice: 1212 Jacaranda Boulevard; 483-5995.

SPREAD THE WORD!