The good: Easy load in and out, with large carts and helpers on hand to unload your vehicles.
There was a good bit of advertising for the show with signs and adds in the newspaper, local magazines, etc.
It was beautifully curated, a lot of really great artists!
The bad: Only a handful of customers showed up.... It seemed you were lucky if you made your expenses.
After talking to some of the artists, I was told that there were 3 or 4 other events going on during this same weekend, so maybe that was the cause for poor attendance. This was a paid admission event and the promoters gave all the artists free tickets to hand out to anyone and everyone on Saturday evening, in an attempt to get people into the show on Sunday. I'm not sure that worked. We had a little surge in attendance, but that was mostly neighboring church members.
It was sad, as I felt everything was in place except for the buying crowd. I was one of the lucky few who doubled my expenses. If this group puts on another show, I would probably consider it in hopes that this time there won't be any competing events and the crowds will come.
Comments
I followed Lynn Wettach's progress putting the Athens Art & Craft Show together. She did more than any show director I've seen in 30 years to create a strong foundation for a first time event. Her marketing was excellent. Her artist quality, excellent.
I think April Chapman's assessment is spot on... in the right market, an artist would be wise to consider a show produced by Lynn again...