I have put forth a theory that when an art show is juried by locals in community, your prior year's sales are a factor in getting invited back because the community wants tax revenue. This week I had the opportunity to attend a Rotary meeting in Este
Read more…In my inbox this morning was an email newsletter from Dolan Geiman (his newsletters are always full of interesting info) and it listed his upcoming shows, including Artclectic in Nashville this coming weekend. Having never heard of this event and kno
Read more…Anyone with firsthand experience or opinions about the Winter Garden FL Arts Festival please reply. The 11th Annual show will be this Thanksgiving weekend (2012). Thank you.
Read more…This show recently came up on greg Lawler's list. Has anyone done or have any info. about this show?
Winterfest Festival of Fine Arts & Fine Crafts
Holmes Beach, FL
December 8th - 9th, 2012 (Sat-Sun)
App Deadline: September 3rd, 2012
http://www.islandar
Reading the Sunshine Artist top 20 blog post and the fact that I'm toying with the idea of taking a spring trip to Texas, prompted me to look at the Bayou City application. A couple of things that caught my eye were that they wanted the booth shot to
Read more…I am a potter and have been fortunate to have been juried in at some prestigious show as well as more local, smaller shows. Rarely does a judge ask me a question, introduce himself or even come all the way into my booth and take time to view my work
Read more…I received this interesting email from the Peoria Art Guild asking me if I wanted to volunteer for their art fair. Of course, I'm only about a 3-4 hour drive away ;-)
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Is anyone doing this show coming up? I checked the website to see what artists will be there but there is no list. Anyways, I will be there, it would be great to meet up. Also, this will be my first show going solo so I would be willing to pay someon
Read more…I know I posted about this in an earlier discussion but Id like to ask ONE MORE TIME:
Does Howard Alan allow BUY/SELL in his ACE shows??
If so, how does it affect the artists/crafters who do original work?
(Im still debating about doing a run of h
Read more…Wondering if anyone has done this show? I applied because AFSB said the show doubled it's sales last year. I did Boca Museum last year. Quality of exhibitors high, sales not too great (day of set-up a nightmare). Boca is a great market for my high en
Read more…I took my first step today to get myself ready to do shows, after a couple of years gathering info and fantasizing about doing shows. Today I bought a used craft hut canopy and am figuring how I can build my own walls.
Now all I need to do is :
-B
Read more…We are just finishing packing and driving down to Louisville today. Tomorrow is set-up and the show begins Friday morning. I hope my fellow AFI members will stop in and say ... HELLO!
Booth WE-946 at the West End Baptist Church. On Fri, Sat, and Sun
Read more…I love it -- there is nothing else like this out there -- thank you for doing this ... the compliments go on and on ...
So, how does one make a sale? Close a sale? Hear that the potential purchaser identify who the item is for and then walk away?
Read more…I litterally just got out of my truck from returning from Mt Gretna, Pa Outdoor Art Show, it was my first time there and I was really impressed with the quality of art there, EXCEPT there was a booth with the dreaded stone birds. I have art friends
Read more…We were wondering if there are any indoor art shows in the midwest area. This would include Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana.
With the weather being like it has been the past two years in this area, outdoor shows have suffered. Suffered in Art
Read more…Tell us please. Many of you are heading to Louisville for the St. James Court Art Show and its sister events. This is a lovely time of the year to be in Louisville in this historic neighborhood. Tell us in the comments if you're going to be there and
Hi, everyone! I'm a painter (I will attach a photo below), and have been accepted to Art Fest Boca and the San Marco Art Festival. The first is by Patty Narozny; the second by Howard Alan.
I've read about these shows on line, and both look like they
Read more…My art show neighbor reminded me of several rules on selling art and basic manners- people should know this as common courtesy but I need to vent.
1. Don't smoke in your booth! Especially don't smoke front and center and expect people to come in.
Read more…Nels and I have been bantering back and forth about art show reviews (“Art Show Reviews – Just Curious”) and this thought came to me this morning while hiking home from church with one of the dogs. New people to the site want to know “what are the be
Read more…How I Research Art Shows – Part 2
Eureka! The Art Show Reviews site has a person, Julie Cottin, who is taking care of getting the reviews posted. That is really great news.
Before we get started lets replace the self fulfilling prophesy of “starving
