What? It's Friday already ... it IS the weekend.
I've just returned from a nine day trip to Portland, OR, for the Zapp sponsored Arts Festival conference and Art in the Pearl and then a stop in the LA area to visit kids. Luckily it is still summer he
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The NAIA (National Association of Independent Artists, an association of art fair artists) has lost its stellar office manager, Mary Strope, who is now working for the American Made Show. How can they replace Mary? They are going to try. Here are the
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Read more…It's Friday afternoon! another week is gone and I'm still sitting here typing and you are sitting there reading. What are we going to do with what is left of the summer? Hope you've got a great plan.
(I'm working away in anticipation of 8 days out of
Read more…'Tis the big weekend in Michigan. (Sorry to be so region-centric, but can hardly help myself here.) The Ann Arbor Art Fairs are starting on Wednesday and I know a lot of you are on the road right now for set up tomorrow. Last year's show was impacted
Read more…I give. I have nothing to do. Do you?
Are you doing the really big show in Bellevue, WA?
or trying Amy Amdur's new Great Midwest Art Fest in Minnesota? or the PA Guild of Craftsmen show in Delaware? or how about Art on the Rocks in very cool Marquett
Read more…Holiday weekends traditionally are not big weekends for art fairs. On my radar:
Are you on the road to Minneapolis this weekend? Lots of artists are. Will it be Uptown, Loring Park or Powderhorn?
Things are great out West also. I'd love to be in Crested Butte or Park City, Utah.
There have to be a bunch of smaller shows out ther
Read more…This is not a big weekend for art fairs. The calendar that started with a May 31-June 1 had lots of shows moving their dates, leaving this one relatively free with artists searching for good ones. The big one is the Milwaukee's Lakefront Art Festival
Read more…I know, this is a little weird!! But, I need to have cataract surgery and am struggling with whether to be near sighted or far sighted---it sounds great not to use glasses, but I think I need to be near sighted to work in the studio. Has anyone els
Read more…Hey everyone. Several members have more than one account here at AFI. I will be contacting members with two accounts to see if one of the accounts can be deleted. If you know you have 2 accounts would you mind deleting the one you do not use? If
Read more…20 Prizes have been chosen, here are the rest:
1. Free booth space, Old 4th Ward Festival of the Arts, Atlanta, 6/28 & 6/29
2. Free booth space, Piedmont Park Arts Festival, Atlanta, 8/16 & 8/17
3. Free booth space, Fall Festival on Ponce, Atlanta, 1
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A few years ago my wife got me these awesome Organic works of pottery. Yes, they do have overt sexual inferences - that's the part I liked the best. :-D
Read more…Geez, I almost forgot to ask and I know some of you are already setting up in places like Des Moines ...
Anything happening with you?
Here is some of what I've found:
The really big one in Salt Lake City: Utah Arts Festival - http://www.cityweekly.n
Read more…Big weekends continue. What will you be doing?
On my horizon, the East Lansing Art Fair, where the snowbirds will be appearing after wintering in Florida. How many of you will be there? Michael and Carol Weber, Nels Johnson and Ellen Marshall, R.C. F
Read more…Hi fellow artist. I just moved from Houston to Lynchburg Virginia.
I have been here for 3 weeks and I am having a hard time finding other artists here.
I contacted many through Facebook, emails sent to some art groups but nobody answered.
In Housto
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57th Street in Chicago?
Columbus (OH) Arts Festival?
Omaha Summer Arts Festival (scene some years ago of terrible storms -- and just today softball size hail falling nearby!!)?
Annapolis, MD?
Louisville? Columbia, MO?
I'm going to Jackson, MI's, Art
Read more…'Tis the season in the Midwest and East for sure! Art fairs (and I mean good ones) nearby for many of us. I'm tracking on:
Jean and I are sitting on the patio as the sun goes down killing a bottle of Chardonnay and getting a bit of a buzz from it. A friend gave her a toke ( now legal in Colorado, and special home grown stuff) and she was on the phone with my son for inst
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