Naples "Art in the Park" shows?

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Permalink Reply by Maxine Sacks on December 15, 2011 at 4:10pm

Geoff, i'll ask you this because obviously you're in FL.

Do you know anything about the Downtown Sarasota Holiday Art & Craft Show at Five Points Park - Main & Pineapple Street this weekend in Sarasota?

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Permalink Reply by Geoff Coe on December 15, 2011 at 4:17pm

Maxine,

Sorry...I've never done it!

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Permalink Reply by Ruth Jellema on December 15, 2011 at 8:19pm

Have you considered Howard Alan's Las Olas II?

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Permalink Reply by Geoff Coe on December 15, 2011 at 8:28pm

Thanks...my stuff doesn't sell well in Lauderdale/Miami.

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Permalink Reply by Kathleen Taylor on February 27, 2012 at 2:31pm

Hi Geoff, I just joined Art Fair Insiders, so I'm sure you've decided what to do by now, but for future reference, I thought I'd chime in. I work for the Naples Art Association, which operates The von Liebig Art Center and runs the Art in the Park festivals. It's my first year here, so I can't speak from my personal experience, but I'm told the March Art in the Park is a pretty well attended one, though with fewer artists than is typical of other months of AITP. The first-Saturday shows are well-known by the local crowd and visitors to downtown Naples stumble upon it regularly. We advertise in the Naples Daily News showcase and on WGCU public television, social media and email marketing, as well as weekly and monthly publications. Both AITP and Mercato shows are run by Naples Art Association, but the two don't compete much, given the geographical difference (downtown vs North Naples). Artists must be members of the Association to participate in AITP.

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Permalink Reply by Geoff Coe on February 27, 2012 at 7:53pm

Hi Kathleen,

Thanks, and welcome!  Great to have members from the NAA! (And hope that the Naples National went well!)

You're right, I have booked the Venice show, but what could you tell me about the April AATP?

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Permalink Reply by Kathleen Taylor on February 28, 2012 at 8:34am

It is somewhat of a shoulder season show, priced accordingly. November and April have mirrored a bit in the past, with slightly smaller crowds and fewer artists. November was particularly good this season in attendance and anecdotal reports from artists. We advertise the same for it as with other AITP shows, and because most of the big shows are finished by then, there's less competition for audience attention. In the interest of full disclosure, April's show falls on Easter weekend this year. Good news is the winter visitors are still here, bad news is that they may have other plans. It depends on your history with Easter weekend shows in Florida. As I mentioned, the booth fee is not as high as the prime season months of January, February and March.

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Permalink Reply by Geoff Coe on February 28, 2012 at 9:40am

"Shoulder season"...I like that term.  I'm going to steal it.  :-) 

Thanks for the update, Kathleen!

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Permalink Reply by Morgan Johnson Norwood on April 14, 2012 at 10:48am

I haven't done them myself, but I used to run the education program at the von Liebig, so I'd often be out there hawking my programs.  This was ten years ago, but the Art in the Park shows seemed to be well attended.  It was Held then on Park Street, not in the actual park, unless things changed since then.  It's a small weekly fair, so there are regular exhibitors usually not of a national show calibre, but decent.  There aren't too many bathrooms in the art center, but there are more next door in the band shell.

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Permalink Reply by Morgan Johnson Norwood on April 14, 2012 at 10:53am

Monthly....

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