20 prizes have been chosen. Here are the rest:
1. Booth space - Chastain Park Art Festival in Atlanta
2. Booth space - Spring Festival on Ponce in Atlanta
3. Booth space - Sandy Springs Art-a-Palooza, Atlanta
4. Booth space - Buckhead Art Festival, A
Read more…We started something new here to get to know our members a little bit better. On the questions new members fill out is a place to add a fun fact about themselves. I have discovered we have some very interesting members here. I will post a few of t
Read more…Congratulations to one of our original members - Michelle Sholund, who is waiting to hear from Shark Tank on whether or not she goes on to the next round. You can read more about this on her blog at www.bythebaybotanicals.com.
Michelle has a line of
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We started something new here to get to know our members a little bit better. On the questions new members fill out is a place to add a fun fact about themselves. I have discovered we have some very interesting members here. I will post a few of t
Read more…AFI is one very happy website -- bringing the art fair community together to help each other, solve our problems, find out about the shows, tell each other stories and give us all a break from the solitude of our workspaces.
Would you like to recogn
Read more…Hi, I was hoping fellow 2d artists using pencil, colored pencil, pastels, etc. could help me out. I do colored pencil drawings and would like to display them without glass. What would be best to seal them with? I spray them with a drawing fixative no
Read more…At a show in Charlotte, NC, a couple weekends ago, promoter Patty Narozny pointed out that there are very few young artists at the shows. And as I looked around that weekend and this past one, I began to see that she has a point.
I'm 56. Most of the
Read more…Three Ann Arbor, MI, students have inspired a piece of legislation that, if signed into law, would establish a new means of generating revenue for arts education in Michigan. On March 12 State Representative Douglas A. Geiss introduced House Bill 440
Read more…Are you going to be participating in the GSAF in Kalamazoo this weekend, February 23? If so, ArtFairInsiders.com is hosting a pizza party at the Fairfield Inn on Cork St. at 6:30 pm on 2/22. Will we see you there? Please let us know so we can prepare
Read more…Excuse me while I gloat here, but yesterday I finished up my taxes and they are in the mail to the accountant. This very painful organizing is over for the year. Here's my method:
I am president of a large art association. We do 12-14 outdoor shows a season with some 40-50 participants, along with several indoor shows. There has been a discussion at our outdoor shows as to whether to put the sides down at night or leave them
Read more…It's a Quiet Weekend in Art Fair Land (March 29-31, 2013)
-- what's everyone doing to celebrate?
Read more…Last night's bad weather on the east coast forced me to do a Sat. morning setup this weekend. I started at 3:30 AM and it took me 5 hours. I am questioning my sanity for applying to (and getting accepted into) Blowing Rock which is a Saturday morni
Read more…Thanking you in advance, hoping you are up for some brainstorming.
Recently one of my clients, an elementary school PTA in a pretty well off neighborhood, has asked for a donation of a gift certificate for their silent auction. I'm thinking since pr
Read more…Anyone here fluent in "art speak"?
I saw this call for entry, and while my head hurt just reading it, I'm, pretty sure our Bubble Tower fits their needs. Anyone care to look it over and tell me if I'm crazy to think we've a shot at this?
Scottsdal
Any others out there remember Charles Fazzino, who used to do art fairs around the country?? I remember being next to him at a Chicago show, many years ago.
Charles Fazzino - Super Bowl Artist
Read more…Big weekend coming up. I'd bet every artist who is in Florida will be at a show either at Coconut Grove, St. Stephens, Artigras, Uptown, etc. How about you?
Really important to me is that I am heading to Philadelphia to attend the Buyers Market of Am
Read more…Anyone with past first-hand experience with Public Art project grants/commissions please reply or message me directly. I have several questions and would like to pick your experience, so-to-speak. I have already been awarded the project.
Or, if yo
Read more…It's that time of the year! The time where people from all over the world come together to do something nice for each other ...
It's also time to try out a new activity on this site and it needs some beta testers ... still working on the idea. Would
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