June with five weekends has been full of terrific shows. This weekend has one of the very best in Des Moines. Will you be there? I'm sure a bunch of you will be in Chicago for the Gold Coast show, right?
Me, hoping to attend the Crosby Festival of A
Read more…Are you using recycled glass bottles for your art projects? What tool are you currently using to cut glass? We are still trying to find the best method. Thanks for your help.
Read more…We know a bunch of our members are busy cleaning up from the storm at the Boardwalk Art Show in Virginia Beach. Suzanne Ens lost her entire tent, but had luckily removed her artwork. You can read more about this storm in other threads.
I want to comm
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'The Crafts Report' magazine is sponsoring a FACEBOOK contest where they asked artist for submissions of photos for a cover contest. The staff of the magazine chose 32 of the images, one of which is my 'Winter Tree' bracelet. The
Read more…We have some very talented artists here They can do more than just create art.
Keith Sparbanie is a rock and roll singer. If he ever does the same show Lori Lacy is at, Keith may find Lori dancing. Lori says if she hears a great song, it makes
Read more…Running a little late here because people are already talking about this weekend in another thread ;(
What's up this weekend? I don't have a lot of information except to report in on myself. I'm heading to Milwaukee for the Lakefront Festival of Art
Read more…20 prizes have been chosen. Here are the rest:
1. Booth space - Chastain Park Art Festival in Atlanta
2. Booth space - Spring Festival on Ponce in Atlanta
3. Booth space - Sandy Springs Art-a-Palooza, Atlanta
4. Booth space - Buckhead Art Festival, A
Read more…We started something new here to get to know our members a little bit better. On the questions new members fill out is a place to add a fun fact about themselves. I have discovered we have some very interesting members here. I will post a few of t
Read more…Congratulations to one of our original members - Michelle Sholund, who is waiting to hear from Shark Tank on whether or not she goes on to the next round. You can read more about this on her blog at www.bythebaybotanicals.com.
Michelle has a line of
Read more…Got to love this article! Is this you?
We started something new here to get to know our members a little bit better. On the questions new members fill out is a place to add a fun fact about themselves. I have discovered we have some very interesting members here. I will post a few of t
Read more…AFI is one very happy website -- bringing the art fair community together to help each other, solve our problems, find out about the shows, tell each other stories and give us all a break from the solitude of our workspaces.
Would you like to recogn
Read more…Hi, I was hoping fellow 2d artists using pencil, colored pencil, pastels, etc. could help me out. I do colored pencil drawings and would like to display them without glass. What would be best to seal them with? I spray them with a drawing fixative no
Read more…At a show in Charlotte, NC, a couple weekends ago, promoter Patty Narozny pointed out that there are very few young artists at the shows. And as I looked around that weekend and this past one, I began to see that she has a point.
I'm 56. Most of the
Read more…Three Ann Arbor, MI, students have inspired a piece of legislation that, if signed into law, would establish a new means of generating revenue for arts education in Michigan. On March 12 State Representative Douglas A. Geiss introduced House Bill 440
Read more…Are you going to be participating in the GSAF in Kalamazoo this weekend, February 23? If so, ArtFairInsiders.com is hosting a pizza party at the Fairfield Inn on Cork St. at 6:30 pm on 2/22. Will we see you there? Please let us know so we can prepare
Read more…Excuse me while I gloat here, but yesterday I finished up my taxes and they are in the mail to the accountant. This very painful organizing is over for the year. Here's my method:
I am president of a large art association. We do 12-14 outdoor shows a season with some 40-50 participants, along with several indoor shows. There has been a discussion at our outdoor shows as to whether to put the sides down at night or leave them
Read more…It's a Quiet Weekend in Art Fair Land (March 29-31, 2013)
-- what's everyone doing to celebrate?
Read more…Last night's bad weather on the east coast forced me to do a Sat. morning setup this weekend. I started at 3:30 AM and it took me 5 hours. I am questioning my sanity for applying to (and getting accepted into) Blowing Rock which is a Saturday morni
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