Category(s): Feel good, romance
This story is about an artist, Rick Wright, who had some fame back in the late 80's as a young man, but kind of flamed out and hasn't been heard from much since. Still, he keeps producing art in his studio in upstate New York and maintains a few ties with curators and art professors in NYC.
As he approaches 50 years old, he's got a modest amount of money and no real plans for the rest of his life.
In an art appreciation class in New York City there's a 40ish woman taking the course as part of her plan to shift gears from her advertising/marketing career to being a consultant to entrepreneurs, artists and actors promoting themselves online.
She asks the professor who are the best artists in NY who deserve fame but haven't had any. What's the short list of the best 10? I'm going to get in contact with them and do my internship with them.
The professor gives her seven names. She starts interviewing them. She goes up to meet Rick because he's on the list, and decides he's one of the best prospects for what she's trying to do. She convinces him to hire her on a pay-for-performance basis, assuring him they are both going to make a lot of money when she successfully sells his art.
So then you see her doing all the work to create the online business, visiting galleries, promoting, promoting, promoting, all the time being sweet as can be to Rick and everybody else, and always, always positive and encouraging.
He starts to get a vision of himself being successful and making money, and becomes more willing to actually do some of the self-promotion that he hadn't been doing. He starts getting gallery gigs and selling stuff online and even agrees to sell a design to an interior decorating manufacturer, which brings a lot of bucks.
