Posted by Nels Johnson on February 9, 2016 at 10:30am
So far, this year, this has been the only show out of five that had good weather.Images was two weeks ago, I am just now blogging about it. Painting the outside of our 100-year-old Ybor house has cut into my golfing and blogging.New Smryna Beach (NSB) is a lovely beach town just south of Daytona. You can still drive on the beach here.I lived here in the early 80-ies so I have always had a soft spot for this show.Ironically,I had my best NSB show here this year, and I have done this show off and on since 1981.It is now a three day show. Friday is a total waste of time, if you make $300 for the day, you are doing good.Saturday brought better crowds and Sunday was the best.What shows still have not figured out is that on Friday the people who buy art are working for a living. So all we get are the old folks who are no longer spending. We are just cheap entertainment for them.On a plus side, this show has a tremendous Patrons Award program. The show director said they spent more than $200,000 last year--not too shabby for a little beach town.The crowd buys mostly traditional and conservative imagery. Modern art is lost on them.They have a very nice prize money program and I managed to snag some of it.You set up early on Friday and the show runs from 1-5pm.On Saturday it is 10-5pm and mercifully, on Sunday it ends at 4pm. Wish more shows would do that.Plenty of storage space behind booths, and the whole show is on city streets so bring weights.There is a great seafood shack called the Dolphin View right on the water and behind booths at the northeast end of the show. Fresh fish sandwiches, with hush-puppy's and Cole slaw, for under $10. A great deal.Jason's is a great breakfast spot on Canal Street where the show is. The show brings ya lunch every day.Overall, it is a very well run show with a great volunteer staff helping.The show is a little too big for a town of this size, roughly 210-plus exhibitors. But this is not going to change, nor will they drop the Friday. Too bad.I will gladly do it again and I would recommend it to most artists I know.
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Tried to look up the show on Zapp, they had nothing . What is the tech name for the show?
Great for you, Nels! Glad to hear that you had a good show down there.
It's good to hear that you had a good show Nels.. and especially a no-rain show...We all had too many rainy shows this past year.
you comment about Fridays hit it right about the waste of time Fridays. This is the case at most shows..with a few rare exceptions.