If you missed the Daily Tip a few days ago you may not know that we broke a record here at AFI. We broke our record for the number of art show reviews submitted during a one month period. In April we had 56 reviews submitted! That was simply amazing.
Everyone realizes that it is a real help to have a place where you can check a show out before you apply. Nobody likes to go into a show blind. Artists also hate to waste the jury fee if you find out later that the show just isn't a good fit with your art work or that there is something just not right about a certain show. It is always good to be able to do some research before you apply to a show.
We also try very hard (and it is quite an undertaking) to keep www.Artshowreviews.com up to date and ready to use. Not only do I add the reviews people write to our site but I also try very hard to make sure all the other show vitals are current. It is nice to find jury fees, booth fees, application dates and show venues all right there to help you with making your decisions.
We have over 200 shows on our site now. Plus, we keep adding new shows every week. We also try to make sure that we have a good variety of shows on our website from all parts of the country. There are so many art shows up and down the eastern half of the country that our website would be full even if we only included shows from that side of the country. But, we don't want that. We want our website to have a great variety of shows from one side of the country to the other to help artists everywhere. However, to be able to provide that service to artists that requires your help. That is why Connie put out a post asking for reviews. Artists make our site what it is today. That is why we often times will ask people to review a show they were just in.
So, getting back to our record, you might like to know just how big this record break was. Our previous record was set about 2 years earlier. Our high point had been 40 reviews in a month. That, in it self, is a lot of reviews, too. I am the person that gets the reviews added into the site and I was so busy this past April that I decided I needed to check out how many reviews I had been working on. I counted up over forty reviews. That was around April 20th. So, I set out asking a few more people to submit a couple more reviews. Many people responded and the reviews kept coming in. I didn't tell Connie I was working hard to get a few more reviews. I wanted it to be a surprise when she saw our new record posted as the tip of the day.
We all know that records are made to be broken. We can break that record again with your help. Quite often we hear artists say how thankful they are that they can have the use of a site like Art Show Reviews.com. If you use our website and you like it, please take a few minutes to write up a review. It really only takes a few minutes and the information is so useful and helpful to so many people. How about this, if our website was useful to you could you add one show review as a way to say thank you. This plea is for those who have never written a show review before. Of course, we also won't turn down any reviews that are submitted by those who help us out regularly.
We really appreciate the many artists who have helped us over the last few years to make Art Show Reviews such a helpful site. We could not have done it without you.
Let's go for another record!
