Art Fair Insiders has been a busy place this year. Here are my choices for the top posts. Do you agree with these choices? 1. Here are some great examples of
artists being their own promoters and drumming up their own customers in trying circumstances. Great job,
Maria Arango. 2. Many thanks to glassblower
Renee Engebretson for her reports on the
Des Moines Art Festival and Denver's Cherry Creek Art Festival.
3. R.C. Fulwiler's moving tribute to the loss of
Michael Craven to cancer. We also lost ceramicist
Nick Rostagno,
photographer John Peer, and
painter Kevin Finnerty. 4. Art fair patron
Geri Wegner gives artists a fresh perspective in "
From the Outside Looking In." 5. Artist
Jacki Jacobson's thoughtful post:
21 Facts abut Selling at a Street Fair.Sort of a scary photo taken by Bill Sargent at an evening fair.... 6. Can you imagine this?
"Artists Behaving Badly at Art Fairs" 7. Looking at all the empty real estate at the nation's malls has brought art to the mall.
Can Art Save the Mall? 8.
Show reviews Archives includes information for over thirty events, big ones and little ones. Interested in finding a specific show review? Type the name of the event in the "search" box at the top of this page and you can retrieve the results. 9.
Michelle Sholund tells us "
How to become an expert of doing "Bad" art shows." Nels Johnson's photo of a crowd at a fair -- do you think there will be much buying happening here? 10. And, it's a good thing some artists not only do lots of art fairs but they write about them! So many great articles this year from photographer
Nels Johnson who entertains us from Florida to Texas, to Chicago, to Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Ann Arbor, etc. I particularly liked his report on the art fair that he went to
a week late, in Perrysburg, OH. Coupled with lots of pertinent fair details he also takes us on a culinary voyage of the art cities and their various tequila bars. Thanks, Nels. Can't wait to see where you take us in 2010. Nels Johnson comments on artists moving into the Internet Age:
In the Old Days we sat in our vans and smoked numbers, now we are smoking on our computers! Fabulous
discussion boards led by the best discussion of the year by
Linda Anderson, regaling us with her struggles with the
Edina Art Fair, her
communications with the committee and the outcome. And how about these? "
Can you survive financially on your art fair income alone?" Ron Mellott's discussion: Art shows:
Who is doing it well? What needs to be done?
Rising Booth Fees - started by Bobbie Matus And please contribute to this discussion:
Wrap up of the 2009 art fair season. We'd love to hear your take on it! We've reported on the art fair business including the great (and not so great) sales in Texas - Ft. Worth and La Villita, the moving and hopefully consequent rejuvenation of Arts, Beats & Eats, the new art fair directors in Omaha, Columbus and Ann Arbor, prize winners at Winter Park, stolen paintings in Des Moines. Laughed and cried at the convolutions of entrepreneurism at its best -- the art fairs of the U. S. Wishing you a great year!
I'm honored to be included in this list of top posts. I also want to thank everyone who visited my blog/website to read the post. I'm truly grateful. I plan on returning often and participating. Happy 2010 Everyone.
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