We are having a great time in Denver at Cherry Creek. My first time at this show, and we've had non-stop traffic all day. Lots of lookers, lots of photographs finding new homes.
New this year, besides me, is a "People's Choice" award, given to the ar
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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…I know us artists. We're gamblers. Who else would take a risk several weekends a year to travel to a strange city, spend time, talent and treasure to show our work, with the slim chance of making a living. There's always some fellow artist, at nearly
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…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.
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Read more…I hope there are some experienced artists out there who can comment or better yet, set me straight. For months I have been watching attendance stats for craft shows (posted by show promoters and sites like these,) and the people walking down the ais
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I joined the community almost two years ago when I was desperately looking for information on how to get into juried art shows. I am not a big social website person so was just a "looker" until now but have decided to let everyone know how h
Read more…Hello all my night artist friends. I tried a Christmas Kiosk last Nov. & Dec.,& it was a nightmare~broke even for 12-14 hr. days. This year we are thinking about Arizona from Nov. to April, then come back to home. We live in Michigan & I'm not see
Read more…Hello, I'm Noma Freeman and am new to the art show business. I am an oil painter and am looking for good shows (small and large) in the Cental/Southern part of Texas. I live close to San Antonio and would appreciate your help. Texas is such a larg
Read more…I got an interesting/exciting email this afternoon from Bill Kinney (Paragon) about his Long Beach Island, NJ show. I did the show last year for the first time and had a good show, as did many of the other artists I spoke to. I decided to apply to
Read more…Website prices for UPS and Fedex are retail prices for people with no accounts. Even if you have very little volume you can open an account with them. Once you do, you will probably automatically see significantly better prices when you log into your
Read more…From everything I'm reading on the forums and blogs both shows (St. Stephens and Artigras) are going downhill - there doesn't seem to be much positive news on either show. I'm juried into both and need to make a choice. I'll be staying with friends i
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Part 1 covered the overview of the workshop and general information on setting up color spaces and checking your monitor to ensure your images were as close to calibration as possible. If the tonality and color space you were working w
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After editing this and re-editing, I finally decided to re-do it as a three-parter to keep it readable. Even my eyeballs glazed over trying to read it ;-) The first part is about image prep, followed by the jury image, and finally the
Read more…Lark Publications has announced the winners of its competition for 500 Art Necklaces which comes out in July. "Hundreds of artists from around the world submitted work for the book, and we tried to capture the power, vitality, and imagination of
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I want to give a shout out to Larry Berman for taking such beautiful pictures of my work this summer. I am a finalist for the Saul Bell design award, a very prestigious trade award from jewelers for jewelers. I was also informed today that one of my
Read more…I promised Connie I was going to post my review of this show. I don't know if I should post it on the review side or not because this is a total different business.
This is a show that takes place in the Chicago Merchandise Mart January 19th -22nd. I
Read more…Hi all, I'm getting ready to apply to the Inman Park Arts Festival. I believe my work falls within mixed media 2D. It incorporates vintage items/boxes, elements found in nature and digital collages/montages. Usually everything is sealed in epoxy resi
Read more…Hi All....I just sent in my 38th application for shows in 2013. How many are you applying to and have you heard back from any of them yet? My earliest notification for my show list is Cherry Creek 1/11/13. How many shows will you apply to in 2013?
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