Ready to Hang: Preparing Your Artwork for Exhibition

with artist, curator and gallery director Nina Boodhansingh

Learn how to professionally prepare your framed artwork or stretched canvas for gallery display in this hands-on workshop for artists. We’ll cover the essential tools and materials—like D-rings, screws, hooks, and wire—and demonstrate best practices for measuring, marking, and securely attaching hardware.

Participants will gain practical tips on choosing the right hardware, avoiding common pitfalls, and ensuring artwork is safely and evenly hung. We'll also discuss gallery expectations, frame types to avoid, and real-world examples of what can go wrong—so your work is always exhibition-ready.

Register in advance here. Space is limited to 15 participants.

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Nina Boodhansingh is Co-owner, Director, and Curator of Midnight Galley, as well as an abstract painter and collage artist. She received a B.F.A from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania and an A.A. in Communications from Lehigh Carbon Community College of Pennsylvania. She is a former Resident Artist of Kutztown University (Kutztown, PA), The Cigar Factory (Allentown, PA), and The Banana Factory (Bethlehem, PA). Not only is she a dedicated artist and curator, but she serves as a mentor to artists and collaborates with local schools, universities, and organizations, where she generously shares her knowledge and skills with the community.

Nina describes her paintings as ethereal. Inspired by nature, skyscapes, landscapes, microscopic images, and the cosmos, each painting represents familiar elements within an abstract world. The surface of the work has a tangible texture built with paint, various gel mediums, sand, and/or metal leaf. Modeling layers, dimensions, and illusions of space in the paintings, the finished pieces suggest parallel, yet distant, worlds. Evoking a dream-like quality, there is a mood of calmness in each piece. She also works with collage, mixed media, and dabbles in drawing. Her collage and mixed media work reflects on living with anxiety, depression, ADHD, trichotillomania, endometriosis, and secondary fibromyalgia, as well as cultural and societal factors. Nina’s collage adds humor to the world and often offers a quirky, witty, and fun change of pace in the creative experience.

Outside of the art business, Nina loves working in her home studio, gardening, tending to a plethora of house plants, hiking, exploring nature, roller skating, birding, talking too much, and spending time with family, friends, her husband, and their super cute dog.