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  • S. Michelle Babcock March 31, 2011 at 1:48pm
    I've done the show a couple of times. Each time I sold one major piece which made it worth it. However many didn't make booth fee. Their advertising has not been consistent from year to year. It is always really hot on that blacktop. One year they provided water the next year they didn't. However there are some real art patrons that come. It is just risky with lack of advertising a possibility and low crowds. Do you want to risk it for one good sale?
    • karen cooper > S. Michelle Babcock March 31, 2011 at 2:13pm

      Thanks for the replies.

      And Kevin, Prairie Village has been around awhile.  Been there, done that, came away smiling.

      • Kevin Carlyle > karen cooper March 31, 2011 at 2:14pm
        is it a busy show like Brookside?
        • S. Michelle Babcock > Kevin Carlyle March 31, 2011 at 4:09pm
          Kevin, Donna Potts runs both Brookside and Prairie Village. Good traffic at both.
  • Kevin Carlyle March 31, 2011 at 10:57am
    I've never heard of it until today and I've lived in KC my entire life.
    • karen cooper > Kevin Carlyle March 31, 2011 at 11:01am
      Ouch.  I guess they don't believe in advertising, eh?
      • Kevin Carlyle > karen cooper March 31, 2011 at 1:57pm

        plaza doesn't need to advertise

        brookside doesn't need to advertise

        westport is well known at this point, tends to get lost by being too close to the plaza show.

        zona rosa is already an area with good foot traffic on weekends and plenty of parking.  has the benefits of the plaza by having shopping and restaurants there too

        downtown is in P&L.  don't know much about the show.  want to go this year to scope out

        prairie village I've never been to, didn't know about it until last year

        peculiar started one, didn't know about it until zapplication

        Town Center Plaza , didn't know about it until zapplication

        Olathe, didn't know about it until zapplication

        Liberty's replaced a long history of a spring festival with one.  not much traffic their first year though

        NKC started one last year and was super slow but it's a small town and didn't do much advertising.  this year they're overlapping more with a car show that brings lots of people out.  it's free and Saturday only which is nice.

        there's one at longview lake I never heard of.

        the irish festival is for drinking, not a good mix with art, and the hours are crazy long.

         

        a good festival I've been to is the one in Springfield in May.  I lived there for a year in 2006-2007 and it was really busy for a single street length and being pay to enter

        http://www.springfieldartsfest.org/

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