The Tollhouse Gallery & Gift Shop

Art guild members can join as a vendor to the Toll House Gallery & Gift Shop in Roscoe Village, Coshocton, Ohio.

If you're not a member... Join us today. We're not renting square footage exactly, because everyone will not be able to display the same amount, or for that matter, even want to display the same amount of art as everyone else.  Some of us are much more prolific than others. Some of us do much smaller art and some of us don't make anything that hangs on a wall. We are a very diverse group of individuals and that is our strength. We don't serve one size fits all artists... so we're not renting one size fits all spaces. Still it is important that we keep the shop full of work if we want to keep customers looking. That's why we will not be dedicating specific wall space areas. If you bring in twenty 8x10's for example, they will not all be hung together. Rather they will be dispersed throughout the shop. The idea is that we promote all the members of the CAG equally as well as guarantee that there isn't many empty gaps in the art displayed. This way we can rotate art and better encourage shoppers to spend a longer length of time inside our facility.

 

It will be obvious as soon as you enter the facility that there are, besides wall space, ample counter top and shelf space throughout the building, providing much more than just a place to sell wall art. A jeweler for example could display an awful lot of jewelry in a much smaller space than a painter can. Say a shelf that is approximately a foot deep and six feet long or six square feet. Those sorts of displays will be treated differently than wall art. Displays that fit on shelves with multiple small pieces by one artist  will be kept grouped.

 

A full space is approximately 22 sq. feet for $30 per month, a half space is 10 sq feet for $15 per month. A double space is 42 sq ft for  $50 per month. Just a hint about space, 20 8x10 canvases without frames uses 11 square feet of space. 20 11x14 canvases without frames uses 21 square feet.  Meanwhile... 5 canvases sized 20x30 without frames uses approximately 21 square feet 

 

What are you getting for the money? Can we guarantee you sales? No. We cannot guarantee your art sells. I can guarantee lots of people see it and that is a lot more than most galleries can say. But the truth is I cannot guarantee even that if the place isn't open.

With that in mind you need to know that part of the agreement between us includes you gallery sitting at least six hours per month.  There is better foot traffic at Roscoe Village on just about any given day than almost any other gallery we know about. 

 

This is the new vendor contract for the Tollhouse Art & Gift Shop in Roscoe Village. In the beginning  there was no contract required. The Tollhouse is manned totally by volunteers, we have no paid staff.   Hopefully you understand that if the shop is closed then sales for that day will be zero.  In order to be fair. everyone must take a turn on weekends when 80% of our sales are made. That's why going forward  we are requiring all vendors to work at least one weekend day in each two month period.  Most of  our  vendors are already doing that and many are exceeding that.  However we continue to fall short of help on weekends. When I say ALL VENDORS are required to abide by these rules spelled out in the contract  that includes the officers. We mean to be fair and equitable to everyone.