I did the Howard Alan Park City show at Redstone this year (it's in its second year, but this was my first time doing it -- last weekend of July). Set up times varied -- depending on your assigned booth location. I had the bad luck of having early morning Saturday set up, which meant I was up at 3:45 AM. Fortunately, I was able to park really close to my booth, so set up was easy that way. There were only 90 artists, and they were stretched out around the Redstone shopping plaza. The show went Sat/Sun 10am - 5pm.
I had seen reports (on FNO) that 50,000 people supposedly attended this show last year -- which was similar to the number I saw for the crowd at the Kimball Arts Festival. Sadly, that number was way off. The small crowd trickled through on Saturday and slowed considerably on Sunday -- and stopped altogether when a big storm hit in the afternoon. The people that did come through were the art buying type, so I was hopeful, but in the end I mostly got a lot of "be backs."
I was able to make some smaller sales, enough to cover the hefty booth fee -- $475 -- but that's about it. The other photographers I spoke to were in the same boat. (Sorry, I don't know how well other mediums did besides the jeweler right next to me who barely made his booth fee as well.) Since I am just an hour's drive away, I may give it one more shot next year.
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Nice line Travis! Missing you guys this weekend in Chautauqua!