Your Story: Heidi Lowe Gallery
Filed Under: Your Story
Tags: Craft Your Story, Entrepreneur
Your name: Heidi Lowe
Name of your business: Heidi Lowe Gallery
Your background: Started my own jewelry business at the age of 13, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Jewelry and Metalsmithing at Maine College of Art, then received a Master of Fine Arts in Metals at State University of New York, New Paltz, interned at Leo Koenig Gallery in NYC
Your chief characteristic: busy, creative, and determined
Your regular reads: The Week, New York Times Magazine, Design Sponge, Art and Business Books
Clients, Customers, Constituents: Conscientious buyers, people who support local and handmade art
How long have you been in business? 4 years
Where do you do business? Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
Your concrete inspiration: Making the world more beautiful
Your big dreams: To make a living doing what I love
Your first success: At 13 years old I started my first jewelry business, a month later the stores reordered
The status of your business: Better every year
The future of your business: To fully support me and many other artist’s creative endeavors
Your greatest challenge in business: Pricing
Business pet peeve: People who drop the ball
Your favorite entrepreneurs, pioneers, mavericks, artists, and heros from real life and history: My mom, Charles Flynne, Peter Korn
The greatest rewards of your entrepreneurship: Getting to see my ideas and visions realized
Your idea of happiness in business: All the parts working together
Your present state of mind: Contemplation and Growth
Your business advise: Be happy where you are, it is constantly changing
Your favorite motto: “Each of us must be the change we want to see in the world.” Mahatma Ghandi
Your favorite business book: The Alchemist
Your one sentence business story: I have created a well-rounded life – making, teaching, and showing art which all come together to form a “career.”
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