Forum

What are You Doing This Weekend - July 18-22, 2012?

Posted by Connie Mettler on July 16, 2012 at 8:01am in Art Show Information and Discussions

July 18-22 is the Ann Arbor bonanza event. Will you be there? The weather promises to be better than last year. As I walked through the St. Joe, MI, show last weekend I asked some of the regulars at that show if they would be there and instead of the usual solid "yes" got a variety of answers, including several "no's". Is a seismic change under way?

I'll be there on Thursday, how about you? Let me know I'd be pleased to meet you, so far I've heard from David Frank, John Powell and Mary Johnston and I'll be looking for them.

Where will you be? I hear College Hill, Iowa, is getting some new faces. Let us know so we can meet up.

You need to be a member of Art Fair Insiders to add comments!

Join Art Fair Insiders

Ann Arbor Art Fairs, What are You Doing This Weekend - July 18-22?

★

Votes: 0

Email me when people reply –

Replies

Richard L. Sherer July 20, 2012 at 11:18pm

Started set up in Winter Park, Colorado at 7:00 am and finished by 1:00 pm which is typical. Hit the hot tub and sacked out rest of afternoon. Rained hard for about 30 minutes at dusk and temp must have dropped about 25-30 degrees. It's in the 50s now. Condo balcony telegraph reported a bear crossing the highway close by.
- Connie Mettler > Richard L. Sherer July 21, 2012 at 12:07am
  
  What a great country and great lifestyle!
Elissa Brown July 19, 2012 at 10:38am

EEEKKK!!! Thinking of everyone at Ann Arbor today! Was going to venture up there, but after the 3 hour drive it would take me, I decided to wait until tomorrow and see if the weather gets better! Hope you are are killing it anyway...
- Connie Mettler > Elissa Brown July 20, 2012 at 11:01am
  
  Two hour drive for me, Elissa. I went yesterday, the weather was pretty nice and there was a nice flow of people. Today will be perfect art fair weather. Hope it is also perfect art fair sales for all.
Joan Tweedell July 19, 2012 at 10:35am

I've never considered doing any of the Ann Arbor shows, I don't have the stamina for them. I'll be doing Griffith IN Art in the Park, a low key easy show that I've done for years, the weekend before I go to Cape Cod to do several shows, visit family and cool off, I hope!
Ruth Finkenbiner July 18, 2012 at 8:31pm

Sequim Lavender Festival - and for those of you wondering, it's in WA state, on the northern side of the Olympic Peninsula, looking across the Straight of Juan De Fuca to Vancouver Island in BC Canada! First time at this show, after 4 years of being rejected, hoping for a great show.

BTW, laptop crashed Sunday night, it's taken me this long to recover and be fully functional again. There are times I hate technology even though my "day job" is with a technology company.
- Connie Mettler > Ruth Finkenbiner July 20, 2012 at 11:00am
  
  That sounds like a lovely place for an art fair, Ruth. Hope the 4 year wait is worth it.
  
  Oh yes, the technology problem -- I spent two hours today just trying to add a new tab to the top of this site and it still isn't working. My most hated way to spend time!
Richard L. Sherer July 18, 2012 at 9:15am

I worked until 11 last night getting ready for Winter Park, COLORADO show this weekend. Still have holsters to finsh and load truck this morning. WP is 2 hours from studio and 1 hour from Denver up in the mountains. It is supposed to be near 100 in Denver this weekend so hoping people plan to get out of dodge for some relief. Going early to spend time with daughter, son-in-law and two grandkids at condo. Last year was the first time I did this show and sales were in the $3-4K range. Hope it is as good this go round.
- Connie Mettler > Richard L. Sherer July 20, 2012 at 10:58am
  
  You too, Dick! How great to be able to make money and visit with your family. Another one of the perks of the art fair business. Hope your show in Winter Park lives up to your expectations.
Geoff Coe July 17, 2012 at 3:26pm

Since I have yet to drink Midwest Kool-aid I am humbly slogging it out in Loveladies, NJ, the northern tip of NJ's Long Beach Island. :-) It's a wealthy seaside community with some great nearby bird photography venues...and the forecast is calling for moderate humidity and temps only in the mid-80s. Which may put more folks on the beach than the show, but no one who remembers last year's 104-degree, 75% humidity Saturday would ever want to go through THAT again. Nonetheless, I'm bringing a portable A/C unit and a 100 foot extension cord, just in case.