Just got done moving my Girl Scouts up, and now I'm finishing up packing so I can drive through the night to Sylvania! This was my first "big girl" art festival last year, and it was so much fun (not to mention profitable)! Will anyone else from AFI
Read more…I've just returned from Stratford, ON, so thoroughly enjoying a few days at the Shakespeare Festival there with some friends. We all need a break from reality now and then and this lovely town is like a fairy tale to me with old homes, painstakingly
Read more…I am in search of anyone who does encaustic painting. I would like referrals to which brands of materials are good, places on line for ordering, and youtube videos. Thanks so much!
Read more…I have exactly 5 weeks to get ready for a 5 show marathon in 6 weeks which includes 3 three day shows and one four day show. I'm afraid that I won't have the energy to produce enough work to get through making pieces and then the energy to do all th
Read more…The only thing in my line of vision is the Ann Arbor Art Fairs. Yes, I know there are others, but this is such a popular event. I haven't missed attending for 37 years.
My younger son and his wife are flying in from LA and I'm picking them up to intr
Read more…It is a great weekend for art festivals. Where I'd really like to be is in Greenville, S.C., in the heart of the Blue Ridge, at Artisphere ... oh, well. Maybe next year!
How about these shows? Will you be there?
Artisphere, Greenville, SC
Read more…Big, big weekend here in the Midwest ... will you be at these fairs?
I am looking to purchase 9 black pro panels for my tent set up. I would prefer the knock down type but will take the full panel as well. 7' tall and 38.5" wide. Alsi looking for a water proof canopy tent. I am living in Naples, Florida and will pay f
Read more…Well, we're pretty happy here in Michigan to start the outdoor art fair season in one of Detroit's most popular historic parks, the Palmer Park Art Fair, run by AFI member, Mark Loeb.
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I am excited to report I have some new equipment that should make photographing our coasters, trivets and plaques easier. We got a new to us Olympus E-510 & a light box with 2 lights & 4 different colored backgrounds (black, white, blu
Read more…What a difference a year makes! Last year there was a lot of shouting and pouting and fingerprinting and shushing and hoping and wishing because the Bayou City Art Festival in Houston added another 100-150 booths to its footprint after the jurying. I
Read more…A flurry of blank emails has been coming to me from people with aol.com email addresses.
Tech support's answer and what you can do about it:
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Hello Connie,
AOL has been making changes to their security settings.
Your AOL subscribers would need to
I just saw this in an industry newsletter here at corporate america day job and thought how perfect for AFI:
"Every artist was first an amateur".......Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Has anyone tried a subscription-based art supply service before? There are two that I'm aware of. My husband discovered Art Snacks http://www.artsnacks.co/ a month or so ago, and just today my bestie discovered SketchBox http://www.getsketchbox.com/
Read more…Here it comes!! Totally art fair season opens now ... from after Easter until mid-October the festivals proliferate across the country. I hope you've got your applications completed and are looking forward to adventures far and near.
What's up this w
Read more…If you are one of the lucky folks who have been reinvited to the Oklahoma City Festival of the Arts, a wonderful show, well-supported by corporations and the citizens wish I could join you there. I do believe Barry Bernstein is participating and memb
Here comes that new year!! I guess I'm a week late on this, but those long holidays caught me sleeping.
What's up this weekend? On my radar:
Only the Rotary Club show in Cape Coral - http://www.cape-coral-daily-breeze.com/page/content.detail/id/5424
Read more…OMG! I just heard there was 11 inches of snow in Alabama. What will be happening in Florida this weekend? Galoshes and mittens and scarves at Gasparilla in Tampa? The last time we did Gasparilla it was chilly. My husband asked me to go to the nearby
Read more…Hope your holidays were jolly and full of small moments to cherish. This was our 3rd annual Secret Santa exchange and it was full of many kind thoughts. We are a community, all working in the creative economy and using our gifts and living by the sea
Read more…There is a lot going on this weekend around here .. Valentine's Day, of course. Here in south Louisiana we also are having Mardi Gras celebrations going on. Mardi Gras is not till Tuesday but parades started last weekend. The weather is supposed t
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