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Art Canvas Pictures- All you need to Make the pictures and Sell them at Shows..... For Sale...Vero Beach, Florida

This is a very special opportunity to Show your work at Art Shows!
I am retiring from this very exciting Art Show business and I am offering a complete set up at 50% off the market value of the following Canvas Production Equipment and Art Show Sale D

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Trailer hitch cargo carriers

I always seem to be just running out of space in my SUV for shows. So I was looking at buying one of those carriers that slides into your trailer hitch for a little extra room. Does anyone use these in conjunction with a handful of storage bins that

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Fine Art Show Newbie with Logistics Questions

Hello,

I've been accepted into my first fine art show at the end of January 2022 and I have a few logistical questions that I'd love some advice on!

 

1. When a customer purchases a framed photograph, do you bring multiples of each print with extra fram

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Are we doing gift exchange again this year?

Hi all!  I don't seem to remember getting an email about it, or seeing any discussion about it, but I'd love to participate again this year.  Am I too late??  

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Cycle 10 of the Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants Program is Now Open

Grants of up to $5,000 to support direct treatment expenses for medical, dental or mental health emergencies that arose in the last six months. Artists practicing in the visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts and choreography are eligible, a

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New Introduction

Hi everyone, my name is Darlene Deffes and I have been exhibiting since 2009ish. I have taken breaks here and there and haven't exhibited at very many fine art festivals but plan to change that 2023. I am taking a year to focus on painting to build m

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Know of any grant opportunities? Emerging artist here! 👋

Hi there! I'm looking for help as an emerging artist! I've been accepted to shows, my first ever! But I need help with the beginning booth fees :( Does anyone know of any grants, specifically for festival artists? Or emerging artists? Even just these

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Hanging Metal Prints Armstrong Panels

Hey everybody!

 

We just sold our first metal print off our wall, which was being hung with Velcro strips across the back. We unfortunately didn't realize how difficult it would be to get the Velcro off the back of the print before giving it to the cus

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Secure Site

Connie and Members

Why is my member site a non-seccure site these days?   https://www.artfairinsiders.com/members/JRBeattyGATORDADDYPHOTO

Is yours?  I can't open and view it as I used to.

 

J.R. Beatty

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Hurricane Ida

Hello to all my fellow artists and crafts people. As many of you might remember, I am from coastal Louisiana. Our community, Houma, LA, was right in the path of destruction for Hurricane Ida. Actually we ended up just west of the path. However we wer

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Hurricane Ida

Hello to all my fellow artists and crafts people. As many of you might remember, I am from coastal Louisiana. Our community, Houma, LA, was right in the path of destruction for Hurricane Ida. Actually we ended up just west of the path. However we

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Handcrafted miniature books

Does anyone make or know of some one who makes quality miniature handcrafted BOOKS ?

Thanks...Dennis.....dkohn2@aol.com

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Changing mediums

Hi all!

I'm trying to change mediums from photography to drawing (smaller pieces). While I haven't applied to a show yet in my new medium, I'm trying to figure out what to do/where to sell all my existing photography inventory. I have several framed

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Jinx Harris

I've been scanning my old slides for the past few weeks, about 1500 slides in.
Artists around my age, if they did any mall shows in New England, will recognize these people. Jinx Harris and her oldest son Lee at the Londonderry Faire in Woburn Massach

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Moving encaustic pieces to and from shows?

I have my first show where I'm selling encaustic coming up next month. And I'm flummoxed about the best way to transport my work. I've moved photography in the past and have the homemade silver bags for those and they work great. But my encaustic?

My

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Would I be crazy ... ?

I've been slowly trying to change mediums from photography to mixed media (encaustic). I recently applied in both categories to a local show where I typically have done well as a photographer. And I got accepted into both. 

Here's the question: Would

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Secret Santa, Part II - 2020

Welcome to our 50+ Secret Santa-ing group. Names were drawn on Dec. 7. What to do next:

1. Open that email and you'll find out who you will be sending your gift to. 
2. NEW this year: there is a link directing you where to put your mailing address. Do it

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Another crazy idea....

I've gotten great advice here (got talked out of the walk-in art trailer, but I did buy a trailer for transporting art)... but I like to keep things moving and try to think differently. I recently bought 27 - 48"x60" canvas for $10 each... and I'm th

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Air conditioning a booth?

I recently did an outdoor show this month (June) & the heat was unbearable. Luckily I took a change of clothes before the show started, but I still found myself dripping from the humidity & heat.

When I got back home I had an idea of adding a portabl

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Children's Art Show Help

Hello! I work in Parks and Recreation. Each year we hold an art show for the local school children. The art teachers bring the art and display it on pipe and drape with 3 lines of paracord across. The teachers generally use binder clips to hold the

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