This must be Howard Alan's miracle mile show, that was supported by the Chicago tribune. I never did his show, but I heard some good things about it.. Maybe because it was a three day show, trying to capture the business crowd on Friday. It's the same weekend as Madison. Why did Howard drop this show?
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Shoot! and here I thought I knew everything and everybody ... this is a big surprise. This show has been around for a long time, with Howard at the helm. Amy now has it?
Mark MacKinnon > Connie MettlerFebruary 4, 2015 at 9:40pm
Robert Wallis > Mark MacKinnonFebruary 4, 2015 at 10:23pm
Ah, I see what she did. The Millennium show is moved to the end of May so there is about a 6 week gap between them. Less competition and the Millennium show is in better weather. I'll pass with that $625 booth fee on the Trib show.
Robert Wallis > Connie MettlerFebruary 4, 2015 at 9:17pm
I think the Tribune Pioneer Plaza show started in about 1989 or so, as I did it when I still had my homemade wooden booth, and a wildlife photographer took me aside and told me to ditch the booth as soon as possible. I also ran into R.C. Fulwiler at that show. I can't remember the wildlife photographer's name but he had a photo of five deer coming out of a corn field, with a five dollar bill matted underneath it. He had directed several other photographers to the other side of the field, telling them there were several large bucks down there. Of course all their tromping around drove the deer in the opposite direction back toward him, and he got all five bucks (Hence the $5 bill) emerging from the cornfield at the same time side by side. He snookered the other guys into being his beaters ;-)
If Amy does have the Tribune show, my guess is that will kill the other show. I don't recall getting much of any traffic from the high rent district in the Standard Oil Bldg where the multi-million dollar condos are. The majority of the street leading up to the Chicago Athletic Club has a steep gradient, and Stetson Street had severe wind backwash off the tall buildings. I remember one photographer, Vincent Serbin, there at the NEAW (now the Millenium) show who was doing these beautiful layered pieces that had an aesthetic look of a sanitized Joel Peter Witkin and the emotional content of Duane Michaels. I had seen the guy's work in some art magazines, and he was branching out from the gallery scene. I would have bought some of his work, but it was just a step or two above my pay grade. He did miserably, selling less than I did, which wasn't terribly great either. I think that killed his idea of pursuing art fairs.
BTW, what ever happened to Cynthia Quick who used to run the New East Side Art Works show? She had a good eye for selecting high caliber artists for her show, and ran it smoothly.
Linnea Lahlum > Robert WallisFebruary 20, 2015 at 3:06pm
Yes, I wondered too. I liked her. I did the show twice. It was too exhausting, though, so I stopped applying.
Robert Wallis > Linnea LahlumFebruary 20, 2015 at 3:25pm
I finally saw where she went about a week ago. She's still in Chicago, directing the operations of a dance group. It looks like she's out of the art fair biz. She ran a class operation.
A good guess would be the competition from Amy's Millennium Park show that replaced the old New East Side Artworks show. There were times the shows were the same weekend yet they were only a few blocks apart. Both shows are overpriced. I did the HA show the second and third year he had it, when it was Th, Fr, Sat. It was a freaking disaster and he told everyone that they could stay for Sunday if they wanted to. I did and sold more on Sunday than the other three days combined. Half the show packed up and left on Saturday. I would have made a decent profit except I parked in the wrong parking lot, took up two spaces as I had a trailer, and was there five days.
If the Millennium Park show closes it would make sense as that location has terrible vortex winds and was a nightmare more often than not. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
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Guess she wants to saturate Chicago like she has the northern suburbs.
So she goes up against Madison and Krasl but Erin Malloy's show in Northbrook is now a week later.
Shoot! and here I thought I knew everything and everybody ... this is a big surprise. This show has been around for a long time, with Howard at the helm. Amy now has it?
Ah, I see what she did. The Millennium show is moved to the end of May so there is about a 6 week gap between them. Less competition and the Millennium show is in better weather. I'll pass with that $625 booth fee on the Trib show.
I think the Tribune Pioneer Plaza show started in about 1989 or so, as I did it when I still had my homemade wooden booth, and a wildlife photographer took me aside and told me to ditch the booth as soon as possible. I also ran into R.C. Fulwiler at that show. I can't remember the wildlife photographer's name but he had a photo of five deer coming out of a corn field, with a five dollar bill matted underneath it. He had directed several other photographers to the other side of the field, telling them there were several large bucks down there. Of course all their tromping around drove the deer in the opposite direction back toward him, and he got all five bucks (Hence the $5 bill) emerging from the cornfield at the same time side by side. He snookered the other guys into being his beaters ;-)
If Amy does have the Tribune show, my guess is that will kill the other show. I don't recall getting much of any traffic from the high rent district in the Standard Oil Bldg where the multi-million dollar condos are. The majority of the street leading up to the Chicago Athletic Club has a steep gradient, and Stetson Street had severe wind backwash off the tall buildings. I remember one photographer, Vincent Serbin, there at the NEAW (now the Millenium) show who was doing these beautiful layered pieces that had an aesthetic look of a sanitized Joel Peter Witkin and the emotional content of Duane Michaels. I had seen the guy's work in some art magazines, and he was branching out from the gallery scene. I would have bought some of his work, but it was just a step or two above my pay grade. He did miserably, selling less than I did, which wasn't terribly great either. I think that killed his idea of pursuing art fairs.
BTW, what ever happened to Cynthia Quick who used to run the New East Side Art Works show? She had a good eye for selecting high caliber artists for her show, and ran it smoothly.
Yes, I wondered too. I liked her. I did the show twice. It was too exhausting, though, so I stopped applying.
I finally saw where she went about a week ago. She's still in Chicago, directing the operations of a dance group. It looks like she's out of the art fair biz. She ran a class operation.
A good guess would be the competition from Amy's Millennium Park show that replaced the old New East Side Artworks show. There were times the shows were the same weekend yet they were only a few blocks apart. Both shows are overpriced. I did the HA show the second and third year he had it, when it was Th, Fr, Sat. It was a freaking disaster and he told everyone that they could stay for Sunday if they wanted to. I did and sold more on Sunday than the other three days combined. Half the show packed up and left on Saturday. I would have made a decent profit except I parked in the wrong parking lot, took up two spaces as I had a trailer, and was there five days.
If the Millennium Park show closes it would make sense as that location has terrible vortex winds and was a nightmare more often than not. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.