Wednesday - February 3, 5 pm ET
It is application season! Anyone active in the art fair business is deep into preparing applications for jurying into the nation's art fairs. What are the odds you'll make the cut and get into your most desired festival?
Our guests are long time professionals from the business including Cindy Lerick, executive director of the Saint Louis Art Fair and Christine Berthiaume, Crafts Manager at the New Orleans Jazz Festival and Marguerite Esrock executive director of the St. James Court Show.
We'll talk about:
- As an intro we'll hear how each show prepares their jurors for jurying and the process of showing the jurors the applications
- 10 worst things you can do to sabotage your chances of "getting in"
Have paper and pencil ready. This one is sure to bring you useful information applicable to your finding success exhibiting at art fairs large and small.
Comments welcome below -- what do you want to know? who would you like to have on the panel? A question you want me to ask?
Comments
Yes Connie, I think an "ask the show director" would be great.
There is a lot of "mysticism" that surrounds shows so to hear something from the people calling the shots would be very valuable to all your listeners!
Also, when is this available to stream/download?
Thank you.
That was a really helpful takeaway, wasn't it, Greg? It is all part of the creativity process, paying attention to all the details that leads to excellence, like all areas of one's life.
I listened to the entire podcast and hopefully always learn something that helps me when applying to shows. Today was no exception.. I believe that learning better and improved techniques for applying to shows is the same as our chosen area of creativity it always must evolve, grow and improve...a lifetime learning experience that is always fun and enjoyable is not limited to just our work...it has to apply to its presentation, booth layout and photography and much of everything else.
I hope you were listening --- amazingly helpful information. Thanks to our wonderful guests, Cindy, Christine & Margue. Show directors rock! They want you to call them so they can help you in your business. Do it.
Sorry I didn't get to all the good questions I received. Maybe I should do another one: Ask the show director? What do you think?
Better art usually costs more, Robbie. I'd say that some shows jury better art and consequently it's more expensive. Why should a high end artist be rejected for that reason? How do you know what my demographic will be, anyway? Some artists attract their own customers, too.
What are they looking for in an Artist Statement? More vision vs. technique?
Connie - it's important to note that New Orleans reads the artist statements in a preview round instead of when they are actually scoring. That's the way it should be done.
Larry Berman
Connie's talkin'! WOOHOO!
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