This show is close to home just a short 2 hour drive, and attracts serious collectors but with the decline in attendance and the poor attitude of the organizers it is hard to recommend it to new artists. I have noticed that this audience really rewards repeat artists (like maybe they think about you al year and come back?), several artists near me did not make booth and I know of one or two that topped the $10,000 mark so the sales where all over the place. As was the art this is always one of the wildest shows in the way of the art on display as well as my fellow artists it is fun just to see the wild and new. I have a few pictures here unfortunately I forgot to take ones of the really interesting stuff.
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The attendees were there to enjoy the folk art, and, often, to buy. I didn't do very well. My partners didn't do very well. But others may have. I saw art under patrons' arms.
The facility - N ATL Trade Center - was the very first membership club (nowadays, like Costco & Sam's Club and BJ's) in Georgia. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the a/c & heat were installed way back then.
I loved seeing the art and meeting the artists. If I'd have made any kind of money at all, I would have considered exhibiting again.