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For those not familiar Piedmont Park in Atlanta is an amazing park that attracts the movers and shakers and everyone else in the city. There is an event almost every weekend here. Three of the weeks hosts art shows. Dogwood, Atlanta Arts Fest and Piedmont Park Arts Festival. Dogwood is probably the best well known and attracts a huge crowd from the surrounding metro Atlanta area and focuses on the music and other attractions. Atlanta Arts Festival is a fine art festival that attracts mainly the Atlanta crowd. Piedmont Park Arts Festival is a mix of arts and crafts that attracts the Atlanta area and concentrates on the artists and the park. All three have a different foot print at the park. I have done all three for many years and this one is consistantly the favorite for me.

Load in, many artist get intimidated doing a show in this park. Dogwood and ATL Fest marshall the artist in. Most artist are a fan of marshalling in but I am not. Marshalling in involves a staging area where we line up at an appointed time and we are driven through the streets of Atlanta with police like the president. Then given a certain amount of time to set up with out moving your vehicle then all being moved out. The reason I am not a fan, it is a firm set up time, then waiting around for staging then slowly driving in then being stuck until set up time is over. This is usually a 3-4 hour ordeal without any wiggle room. This show allows set up all day on Friday and it goes smoothly and I can be in and out in 1.5 hours. Everyone is set up on one side of the pavement street and most booths have lots of room in the back. There is also a decent amount of room from side to side of the booths. This is held in August in Atlanta, but most of the area kept cool by the trees.

This year the show also held a fund raiser for The Piedmont Park Conservancy on Friday night before the show. It was extremely well advertised on TV and all over the city as was the show and it was packed. Great place to invite clients and patrons and enjoy an evening of art. It was also wonderful to see everyone dressed up:)
Saturday all set up and ready to go. The crowds were there and weather was good for Atlanta in August. Lots of art going by. Sunday sales, like always, original only large abstracts, were even better. Both days I walked the art to the streets to wait to load up cars and as I waited I watched other art being toted out and loaded into cars. Follow up sales even better. I was leaving for an out of town show right after and had to squeeze studio visits in. Now back in town and have more visits to set up.

Break down, normal get all your stuff to the side then get a pass and come on in. Show over at 6pm and I was driving out before 7pm. See no reason to be intimidated by Piedmont Park folks.

What can I say, this show has a great mix of amazing fine art, fine craft and a bit in between and the Atlanta folks love it. The food trucks are at a higher end than funnel cakes and food on sticks. This year Nuloo was there. How excited was I? VERY!!! This is a company that offered highend a/c trailer bathrooms with a lounge area WITH wifi. What more can a female artist ask for?!!

As an Atlanta artist resident I love showing in Piedmont Park and this is my favorite of all three shows.Sorry dont have more pics but too busy selling, but really this is the most impressive pic.