Comments on: Shipping a Painting?: Advice from Chicago Artists http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2012/01/shipping-a-painting-advice-from-chicago-artists/ Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:49:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Richard Shipps http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2012/01/shipping-a-painting-advice-from-chicago-artists/comment-page-1/#comment-6252 Richard Shipps Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:25:08 +0000 http://chicagoartmagazine.com/?p=19046#comment-6252 If you are shipping internationally and want to crate your work, you must use a special plywood certified for international shipping. The plywood must bear a special seal indicating it complies with international standards. Home Depot plywood won't pass muster. If crating, I suggest letting an art expediter make the crate and pack it for you. It will be more expensive, but it's hassle free and is the only guaranteed way to get it through customs. You can cut some of the cost by packing your art carefully in a cardboard/bubble/foam inner package and let the art expediter just build the external crate/shell. The shell will let you rest assured your package will be protected. If you are shipping internationally and want to crate your work, you must use a special plywood certified for international shipping. The plywood must bear a special seal indicating it complies with international standards. Home Depot plywood won’t pass muster. If crating, I suggest letting an art expediter make the crate and pack it for you. It will be more expensive, but it’s hassle free and is the only guaranteed way to get it through customs. You can cut some of the cost by packing your art carefully in a cardboard/bubble/foam inner package and let the art expediter just build the external crate/shell. The shell will let you rest assured your package will be protected.

]]> By: Paul Klein http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2012/01/shipping-a-painting-advice-from-chicago-artists/comment-page-1/#comment-6167 Paul Klein Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:44:24 +0000 http://chicagoartmagazine.com/?p=19046#comment-6167 There are other options - especially if more than one work of art are being shipped at once. The cost of crating a painting and shipping it is often very close to the cost of not crating a painting and sending it with an art carrier. Some art carriers are perpetually looping the U.S and can pick up from you and deliver to a city on their route. If your destination is behind them it can take almost 2 weeks to get there, but you're fairly assured it will arrive safely. Other art carriers will go point to point, but for one work of art that can cost a mint. One concern is insurance. UPS & FedEx do not want to ship art - for obvious reasons. Invariably we'd declare the contents as 'samples,' which is fine if you carry your own insurance, but not so good if you are relying on the shippers insurance which is often limited to 60¢/pound. For me, the correct answere varied with what was to be shipped and the answer was not always clear. There are other options – especially if more than one work of art are being shipped at once.

The cost of crating a painting and shipping it is often very close to the cost of not crating a painting and sending it with an art carrier. Some art carriers are perpetually looping the U.S and can pick up from you and deliver to a city on their route. If your destination is behind them it can take almost 2 weeks to get there, but you’re fairly assured it will arrive safely. Other art carriers will go point to point, but for one work of art that can cost a mint.

One concern is insurance. UPS & FedEx do not want to ship art – for obvious reasons. Invariably we’d declare the contents as ‘samples,’ which is fine if you carry your own insurance, but not so good if you are relying on the shippers insurance which is often limited to 60¢/pound.

For me, the correct answere varied with what was to be shipped and the answer was not always clear.

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