I recently did my first art show! It was part of the organization RAW (rawartists.org). I want to give an honest, hopefully balanced takeaway from the experience so others can know how to well utilize the event. The after-the-fact impression was feeling a little duped. I felt like I hadn’t made a wise choice - hadn’t seen the signs on the wall, but there was still some good that came out. RAW found me through Adobe’s Behance a couple months back (yay, putting stuff online act