Thank you for registering for the 2025 Tour

Lets get started on publicizing your involvement using:

Newsletters, Facebook and Instragram

Please send out Newsletters to your community, mentioning DOS 2025 and your participation

  • describe what’s new since your last tour

  • if this is your first time, communicate your excitement

  • will you be offering special pricing during the tour?

  • will you be giving any demonstrations or talks?

  • consider several newsletters in the run up to the tour

  • reference our Website and Newsletter sign-up

Please contribute to our Facebook page at /desertopenstudios.com

  • tell everyone you have joined

  • add some images of your work

  • make connections to your FB page and elsewhere

  • rinse and repeat weekly!

We also have an active Instagram page at @desertopenstudios

  • Please Follow, Like and Share our posts. (Use hashtag #desertopenstudios and Tag @desertopenstudios to have your posts re-shared

  • Each artist please share 1 social media post per week.

  • Tag other artists and tag @Desertopenstudios on each post.

  • Please share DOS posts, where relevant. Community effort is the best strategy to make our tour visible to the widest audience.

Postcards

Please have a supply of our tour postcards in your studio to hand out to visitors during the months prior to the tour.

  • We have found this to be one of the most effective and simplest marketing tools. The following artists have a supply of the postcards.

  • Bill Schinsky: Studio 6/7 , 68-845 Perez Rd, Cathedral City

  • Kim Manfredi: Studio H21, 68-845 Perez Rd, Cathedral City

  • Contact us HERE if you would like a supply

Handbooks and Maps

We will have supplies of both soon (~ December 20) and hope you will make them available in your studio and share with your guests

Artist Downloads

Studio Set-Up for DOS 2025

  • You may want to have a friend help out on logistics so you can focus on talking with the visitors

  • Make a guestbook or some way to collect emails

  • Have someone else encourage leaving email address for you

  • Hang/display your work;  How will you show the prices on your artwork - tags or handouts? 

  • It is ideal to have work for people to buy at different price points and in different sizes.  

  • How will you ring up a sale?  

  • Do you have supplies on hand to wrap a piece?  

  • Do you want to provide a certificate of authenticity or sales receipt for their records?  

  • Have plenty of business cards to hand out.

  • Do you want to have info about you such as an artist’s statement or bio on hand as well? 

  • Do you want to have music? Flowers? Snacks?

  • Planning a raffle? If so, do you have a container for contact info?