Here is your opportunity to help improve our business. Fewer and fewer shows have it in their prospectus that an application is a commitment to show, but there are still shows that once they get your payment it never comes back regardless of your sit
Read more…Hi Everyone, in preparation for our Podcast talk tomorrow, I thought I would provide you with an overview of the system I created to manage my art business, hopefully it will serve as a reference point to our discussion tomorrow. I have been using a
Columbus open jury February 8-9, 2014
Not more than about a dozen artists attended. No matter how much we stress how important it is to attend an open jury to see both your presentation and what you are competing against, artists are just not takin
is the theory that everyone and everything is six or fewer steps away....so a couple came to my booth on Saturday at the Sarasota Masters Art Festival and did not say a word to me. However, they came back on Sunday and told me this story.
On Saturday
Read more…Every so often an AFIer throws out a comment about lurkers who should be joining in on the discussion. Then today I read another thread that appeared to be written by a newbie (i.e. lurker), followed by two pages of comments that jumped all over her
Bill Coleman - 1924-2014
A long time resident of State College and lifelong photographer Bill Coleman died on 1/29/14. He was one of the characters of the business, always making new work, new friends, new enemies and driving art fair committees craz
Read more…Each person posting a booth picture for review should start a new thread. Otherwise the only people who will see your post are the few people who subscribed originally to an existing post.
Everyone gets notification of new posts which means more feedb
Good Morning AFI,
Well I finally applied to my first ever Art Festival, the Downtown Naples in March and just received the results. A resounding (((DECLINE))). I probably shouldn’t have expected to make it in on my first ever try, I guess that’s th
Read more…Many of the artists here at AFI have full time day jobs in addition to their art work business. Below are just a small portion of the artists at AFI who do something else for their day job.
Michelle James - I work full time in IT and full time i
Read more…Hi! I am thinking of applying to a few shows in the Florida area. I live in Houston and was looking at shows that are 10 hours or less from me.Wondering if anyone has feedback on a few shows I am looking at on ZAPP...
Art in the Park Pensacola 2014
Read more…Hey Yall,
I am just getting back into doing shows and need advice on Credit/Debit..Are the knuckle busters better for fees than the new swipe phone deal?...
I had a small art gallery up until last year... when I closed they charged me..(hold on to y
Read more…http://www.fastcodesign.com/3020194/how-a-company-gets-away-with-stealing-independent-designers-work
If your designs are stolen, this might be the company who did it. A very interesting read.
Read more…The best two things I have done to my my show life easier are:
1. Getting a vehicle in which I can leave my show stuff. I can't even begin to quantify the amount of time and energy I save by not taking it out after every show and reloading it before
Read more…I am very dissapointed in this magazine and will not be ordering it again... especially after seeing this TOP 200 edition.
There is a FULL back page ad from a promoter (Amy Amdur Festivals) and then ironically I see her shows very high up on this li
Read more…Earlier this summer I exhibited at the Art and Air fair in Webster Groves, MO. (It turned out to be a good show for us)
Shortly after opening on Friday evening a middle aged man brought one of my pieces up to me (with a look and tone of, I know I'm g
Read more…I have not been on the site for awhile between our travels and my dissertation. I thought some might be interested in an update on our first year progress. We just returned from an extended trip to Ireland. Sherry participated in the Art in the Open
Read more…I would just like to make anyone who uses FAA aware of my recent situation with them. Last fall I had ordered 10 greeting cards from FAA. They were beautiful. A few weeks ago I ordered 50 more (5 different sets of 10). To say the least I was very di
Read more…Showing at art fairs and festivals has many challenges, one of which is creating excellent work. But as we all know, that’s only the beginning. Since I’ve started doing these I’ve learned many skills. I think it’s time festivals gave credit for all t
Read more…On 9News Denver: Estes Park, CO a woman was taking groceries from her car into her house. Mr. Bruin jumped in the trunk and ate two bags of Fritios and a bottle of water before she came out. There was also a video of the bear in Lonigan's bar. Colora
Read more…There are a lot of incredibly smart artists here. Remember how our parents always said "get a degree so that you have something to fall back on." Well, look at the education these members have to fall back on.
Carla Nee is a Massachusetts Maritime
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