Excuse me while I do a little bragging on myself and my exploits. I'm doing it here because you are responsible for its happening.
I've been in the art fair business --- let's just say for a long time. Active with my husband, photographer Norm Darwish, exhibiting at the nation's art fairs for almost thirty years, behind the scenes promoting and developing art fairs in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan, and pouring myself out online since 2005 with my main web site:
www.ArtFairCalendar.com, started with the purpose of bringing patrons to art fairs so my friends could continue to make money at the shows. So here's the bragging part: 1. You can read my new article, "
Ten Top Reasons to Have a Website and How to Do It" in
The Independent Artist's Spring issue, published by the
NAIA. If you don't have a web site--read it! I promise it is full of good stuff that will only make your life better :) The newspaper is being distributed at this season's art fairs, or visit their
web site, or join NAIA and it will arrive in your mailbox. There is no other organization in the country that works to make your art fair life better.
2. My partner at
Arts, Beats & Eats, Lisa Konikow, and I are featured in the
Show Director Profile in the latest issue of
Sunshine Artist magazine.
Arts, Beats & Eats has owned a part of my life since l998 and I've met many of you there. I thoroughly enjoy stepping out of the 10 x 10 booth and trying to put together the best experience I can for you at this event. 3. As a big fan of public radio I was thrilled to be interviewed last week by
Elizabeth Kramer from Louisville, KY's,
NPR station WFPL. As the Cherokee Triangle Art Fair was kicking off last weekend she wanted to talk to someone with a national perspective about the relationship between art fairs and the economy. You know, if you Google "art fairs",
www.ArtFairCalendar.com comes up #1, so, of course she found me online.
Happy shoppers at Arts, Beats & Eats in Pontiac, MI4. Since late last year I have been working with the new
Great Lakes Art Fair in Novi, MI, as their "art fair consultant." As you can imagine I was experiencing a fair amount of trepidation attempting to make this a successful venture. Held April 17-19 at the Rock Financial Showplace, with great support from the Rock Financial folks and
Mark Loeb, the art fair looked fabulous and the crowd encouraging. I am going to say it here:
this event shows promise! Tom Hale with customers at the Great Lakes Art Fair 5. My art fair newsletter reached the
11,000 subscriber mark last week! Thank you to all of you who are finding me and finding the tops in the nation's art fairs at this site, "The Place to Go to Find the Show." Who would have thought this would have happened? Now the next challenge: my
goal for the first of May is to have
1000 members on this site. Please send one of the above invitations to your friends. As of this writing there are
967. Can you help me? The reward is that I will then be able to sell some advertising and begin to have this site support itself. Help, help, please while this is fresh in your mind! The further reward is that if I can earn some money I'll be able to expand the site to helping you make money. Does that goal work for you?
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