Call for Artists: Garage Sale Art Fair

February 28, 2015 8869146256?profile=original
Kalamazoo, Michigan
<9:30am-4pm
Why go to Kalamazoo in February??? Join us in celebrating out 19th year of garage sale fun!
6a00e54fba8a7388330133f50cc326970b-pi The Garage Sale Art Fair is the place for "art fair artists" to sell anything art related. It's 6 1/2 hours of as much fun as we can make it. This is a garage sale for artists to sell their overstock, seconds, things you're tired of, damaged items, duds, bring them here. That vase you traded for but no longer want? This is the place to sell it.

We have eager customers looking for markdowns, seconds and great deals on artwork.  In 2014 we had 3,500 people come through our doors.  They're lined up early, waiting for us to open and for the buying to begin.

No need to set up your regular art fair booth. Make it easy on yourself and rent a table or two, make some SALE signs and have fun! Friday night set-up is now available as well as early Saturday morning. But this doesn't mean we want fancy displays. The customer lines form early so keep it simple. You can see images on our website showing what last year's show looked like.
 
CANCELLATION POLICY

If you have to cancel for any reason, and we can fill your booth, we refund your booth fee. In full.

New for 2015:

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We are having a pizza party for everyone right at the Expo Center during the Friday set-up!

Also new, we have changed the layout somewhat due to the concerns about overcrowding (fire marshal). Instead of the first smaller building we're using the larger building on the other side of the main building (long time exhibitors will remember it as the Hazel Grey building).
It has better access and allows us to make it a better experience for the early morning crowds. We have added about 15 booths because of this but we are not using the whole building.

GENERAL INFORMATION
 
Bonnie Blandford and Michael Kifer of Road Wife Productions LLC, both of whom make their living doing art fairs around the country.  So it's run by artists and our focus is to help you sell your work. Although the show is picked by Michael and Bonnie, looking for the most balanced, wonderful show.  We do invite some people to do the show but the majority of the show is filled during the jurying/choosing and everyone must apply through www.Zapplication.org
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Connie & friends at their favorite art fair 
ADVERTISING

For the last show we adv
ertised on 4 television stations, 2 specialty papers, 2 billboards, did a postcard mailing to past customers plus e-mail blasts.  We heavily use Facebook for artist promotion and images and one of last year's promotions had almost 51,000 views!  We hand out cards all year around for the show plus put it everywhere we can possibly find on the Internet.

We use our website www.GarageSaleArtFair.com for artist promotion as well.

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  • Will do...

  • Yes, Tina, we missed your companionship the last few years. Write this on your calendar and we'll meet up.

  • Love this one, hoping I can go with you next time...so much fun!

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