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Santa Fe Spring Art Festival, Gainesville, Fl

Posted by Christina Ruth Smith on August 31, 2010 at 3:48pm

I exhibited at the Santa Fe College Spring Arts Festival in Gainesville, Florida last April. When I opened up my tent Sunday morning I discovered that watersprinklers had gone off in my booth during the night.yes""> The sprinklers were really buried in the grass and I didn’teven know I had sprinklers, in fact, it took me a while to figure out why partof my booth was absolutely soaked. Luckily I had placed my directors chair right over the invisiblesprinklers and that prevented the water from spraying high enough to soakeverything. I had $1460.00 indamaged work (watercolors) and another artist (photographer) had about twice asmuch damage to his work. The showorganizer, Kathryn Leyman, spent the next three plus months trying to get thephotographer and me compensated for our losses.yes""> The city owned the land the sprinklers were in - butSunTrust Bank owned the sprinklers - but a maintenance/landscape company was incharge of the sprinklers – the finger pointing went on and on! I think sometimes Kathryn was patientand sometimes she was angry but I do know she spent a lot of time and did notgive up! It’s a nice show and Kathryn wants to see to it that the artist arewell treated and fairly treated. The photographer and I owe her a great bigthank you for persisting. She gotus our money and justice did finally prevail!yes""> We couldn’t have made it work without her. Thank you Kathryn Lehman!

Christina Smith

Christinasmith.net

csmithstudio@mac.com
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  • Kim O'Hara Clay Designs November 5, 2010 at 9:26am
    Nels: What does it matter if she waited that long to comment, maybe she was busy. I appreciate someone taking the time to write useful info or to appreciate someones efforts, don't discourage people from doing this.
  • Christina Ruth Smith September 10, 2010 at 2:11pm
    Hi Beverly, Actually my sales weren't very good. This was my first year there but my husband has done the show several times and done well. We wrote it off to a bad year and will probably both try it again this year. It was the usual mix of art and craft - well juried good stuff - easy to set up and down. A nice show.
  • Beverly Smith September 7, 2010 at 11:49am
    Christina - Sounds like a good promoter. I was thinking about applying to that show next year. How was it other than the mishap. Many buyers show up, mostly fine art or crafts, sales ok?, that sort of thing. Thanks.
  • Bill and Jon Slade September 2, 2010 at 10:35am
    FANTASTIC; Kathryn runs a great show/ and it is so rare that the promoter went to bat for the artists; and WON. This was a unfortunate accident with sprinklers going off under some booths/ ruining artwork that was left overnight (maybe a subject for another time)/ which means you take your chance at night. I have seen the sprinkler mishap happen at other shows/nothing happened/ BUT KATHRYN IS A GEM- we thank her and her continuing efforts in expanding the arts in g-ville. GO GATORS
  • Christina Ruth Smith September 1, 2010 at 9:57am
    Instead of complaining I hoped to give a good "they paid up!" report so I waited for my check to materialize. It took four months of waiting but got it!
  • Nels Johnson August 31, 2010 at 7:17pm
    But why wait til now to report about this April Show?
  • Michele LeVett August 31, 2010 at 6:05pm
    so nice to hear........years ago the sprinklers went off in my booth in Ft. Lauderdale...........put a bucket over it until they were turned off
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