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  Oscar Matos Linares May 14, 2011 at 9:57am

  In show where you have a lot people in your booth is very hard to talk to the artist. I think that you need to post your info. You may find out that you prefer expend time with a buyer over a juror.

   

  One thing my prev. post

   

  I want to said you can not ask anymore from the art show staff.
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  phillip hall May 14, 2011 at 8:45am

  I called this show once and asked who was going to be on the jury. They were very indignant at the mere thought that artists might want and have the right to know before plunking down their hard earned jury fees.  It made me wonder why they have to be so secretive.  I have found that a good percentage of the time when i do talk to the onsite jury persons that they really do not know what is involved in making the artwork they are judging. Being able to point out techniques and materials etc. really helps them out. They seem to appreciate it and i could never understand the idea that talking to a juror is somehow unseemly,or tainting the process.
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  Oscar Matos Linares May 14, 2011 at 7:53am

  The show is run as well as you can ask from the promoters. The put themselves in the news each day. You can ask anything more from them and It was pleasure to work with them. The Sunday crowd make the show but still it was lower than expected. I was told that 50% of the artist are new and  25% is second year. That is good b.c. it keeps the show fresh but it also a bad sign for the artists. The entry is high for the area but lower than Broad of Ripple in Indiana which is 10 per person.

   

  This show it suppose to be a Sunday show. That does not help the moral of the artist. Friday jurying process was a joke. The judges just put the stickers and keep walking. They never enter the booth and thank you for not talking to the artist (this is a good thing).  They went twice but never took a closer look to nobody work. The winners did deserve to win and yes all of them have big pieces.
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  Tina Cloud May 14, 2011 at 12:31am

  I attended on Sunday (Mother's Day) and thought there was a great crowd - especially since they charged admission - it cost $28 for my family of 4 to get in.  We had to wait to get into the parking lot & then had to park all the way up the hill & down the shopping center by the Borders Books.  There was a big stream of people going in.  The weather was beautiful - warm & sunny.  Definetely had to manuver around people to get inside the tents. 
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  Oscar Matos Linares May 13, 2011 at 10:36am

  This is how booth look on Friday night. I sold the three big pieces to your left Sunday 15 minutes before closing but needed to ship to CT.
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  Oscar Matos Linares May 13, 2011 at 10:32am

  From what I was told you can not walk away from your tent at this show, The crowd never pass from 4 feet from your tent and was some gap between people. The quality of artist was great. They advertise the crowd to be 15,000 or 150, 000. in three days. I think it was 15,000 at best in three days.
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  Oscar Matos Linares May 13, 2011 at 10:23am

  I had been trying to get into this show since I started. I will give it another chance next year since this show has the reputation of up and down. The weather before hand was very bad and is a good show to have between the other two big one if you can get in.

   

  The glass blower, fabric, wood furniture maker and I recover the expenses and did a little of profit but in simple terms it sucks for us. The glass blower jeweler did well. I can tell you that the amount of  people that show up was low but very polite and honest.
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  phillip hall May 13, 2011 at 9:46am

  So, how did it go?