I am intrigued by the notion of a whole festival dedicated to bacon. I think this is the second year of the show. Did anyone do it last year? Any feedback? I am an oil painter; the show is in Savannah, GA. Deadline is July 31. Thanks!
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Run as fast as your feet will carry you and do not look back lest you be turned into a pillar of salt and all the money in your purse become dust in the wind. The Riverfront Association that puts on these monthly "shows" depends upon catchy names and concepts to lure unsuspecting artists in where we are then gutted like fish. In a word, don't do it. I wrote a scathing review of the Seafood Festival they put on at the first of June. It wasn't a pretty sight. I had almost no sales, less than $40 as memory serves correctly although I've tried to erase that experience from my brain cells. The customers are tourists looking for cheap trinkets to sit on their coffee tables or place on the refrigerator door.
You also have to have a rather expensive local temporary vendor license, but several artists didn't get one. They were the smart ones. The show claims that tax people and safety officials come around for inspection. Another major lie from them. Buy/Sell is rampant and numerous complaints fall on deaf ears. The big sellers when I was there were the gal sewing names on B/S pinafores on the B/S teddy bears. She was using a computerized sewing machine that the names were typed into. Real art work there. Then the other end had the Hudson River Inlay furniture folks. CNC cut veneer with programmed patterns and glued onto stock furniture doesn't qualify as art either.
If you have items of local schlock stock scenes in cheap frames for less than $20, then go for it. The literature and reports indicated there were around 90 artists at the shows. That's bogus as 30 artists filled the area. Oh, one more thing, half the booths have to contend with a bolted down park bench inside your booth space. Last but not least are the local no-see-ums that get into your hair and burrow into your scalp. I don't recommend any show on the Savannah Waterfront. I think I lost about $1,200 doing the June show and see no reason why the others are different as it's the same promoter.