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I, along with a number of my peers had a really horrible renting experience almost two years ago now. Like many ocad fourth year groups NOT in the sculpture major, we barely heard back from any galleries willing to rent to us. Norman Felix charged us a lot for one week, the price given to us being their "discount" rate for students. A seemingly added bonus was the on-site bar that allowed us to not get a special occasion permit. I'll start with the bar- the owner (tall blonde woman obsessed with herself and her instagram persona) changed the prices the night of our opening. We saw prices before hand and they had been raised a few dollars. Our "special cocktail" was hideously over priced. Like 12$ for some drink her stoned bar tender made. The owner assumed that since we were a student group we wouldn't have a good turnout and didn't have the proper permit for our opening, so we had to pretend we had a guest list and were checking people off and using a clicker to 'count' attendees ( my fake Facebook profile which I have rsvp'd as a joke somehow attended somehow without me knowing) AND THEY RAN OUT OF BOOZE. These were a few complaints for the night of opening.
Other problems were related to our installation day, artwork which we had been told would be taken down had been left up, UGLY STUFF. Then there is her permanent collection which we knew about, but man it really clashes with current art school stuff. Her massive jewelry display cases had to be forced into other rooms so we could use the space we paid for. She was huffy throughout the entire thing. Her staff aka stoned guy was unhelpful. Basically we got there and shit we were told would be done had not been done!
The biggest kicker is we paid for a week (or 5 business days) and the gallery was open 1.5 days. Her claim was her dog was sick?!?!? Days we were told she would be open she didn't bother to go in. We also booked a day to go in as a class and do our final crits, and she showed up an hour late to open the space for us. Very unprofessional. She was obviously mad that we had forced her out of bed and while we tried to have quiet discussions about our work, she blasted music over the building speaker system.
Overall a bad experience, 10/10 would not recommend, and would give this place a zero if I could. Owner is a selfish crook and unprofessional. Only upside is her dog is cute?
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