I just got my email from Reston to apply for their show. The jury fee is $50. I replied that it was too high. I think everyone should do that to any show who's jury fee is over $40 or next thing you know they'll be up to $75 or whatever they're able to get away with.
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It's not the jurors but the show director who needs to vet the accepted artists. I've had jurors tell me that anyone with buy/sell wouldn't use images of bought product for jurying.
Larry Berman
http://BermanGraphics.com
412-401-8100
I beg to differ. Higher the Jury Fee the less chance some reseller will be apart of the event. That is the main reason Jury fee's exist. Just adjust your merchandise prices to reflect the higher cost.
Really. And on what are you basing this theory?
No, not theory. It is what I have been told. Best way to keep out rift raft is to make vendors send in extra money with photo's of items.
Theory is when there is a High cost in a jury fee to make us think/believe that the patronage of the event has and is willing to give up disposable income.
I don't know, man. I never heard that one before. The high cost of a jury fee never made me think that the patronage has disposable income. It just makes me think that the event is gouging artists.
Exactly, Larry.
I beg to disagree.
I think it's the buy sell people that can afford the rising jury and booth fees, not the legitimate artists.
Larry Berman
http://BermanGraphics.com
412-401-8100
Reston is not on ZAPP. They use Juried Art Services.
Besides the $50 jury fee (which they did about ten years ago, and as an artist advisor I was able to get them to lower it back to $40), they now charge $100 for a space request, which is total BS, but everyone has to do it because no one wants side street spaces.
Larry Berman
http://BermanGraphics.com
412-401-8100
Yeah, I heard about that. Totally outrageous. What if everybody waited until a week before the deadline to apply. See who blinks first!
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