Call for Artists, Making Money at Juried Art Fairs, Craft Shows and Festivals

What's the worst question you have been asked at an art fair?

Let's do it as a top ten: My number 1 is

"Did j'all make this"?

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Permalink Reply by Alison Thomas on April 20, 2011 at 2:50pm

My personal favorite - Did you go to all these places? - No I just sent the camera.

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Permalink Reply by Lisa Stewart on May 23, 2011 at 10:32am

ROTF!!! Love that!

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Permalink Reply by Greg Spring on April 15, 2012 at 4:59pm

I have to remember that answer. I get that question because my display contains England, France, Poland. I'm usually so taken aback by the question I just stare before saying ,"of course".

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Permalink Reply by Fletcher Dean on May 31, 2018 at 5:54pm

OMG. I get that same question every show. I just tell them I have a really long telephoto lens - and then bask in the blank stare I get in return.

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Permalink Reply by Robert Wallis on April 20, 2011 at 3:39pm

I used to have a fair number of nude images in my booth, so the dumbest question would be, "Is this a picture of your wife?". There were generally several different models. Like which one? But the worst, hands down witout any doubt, was "Do you have sex with your models?" I would give the person asking that question a look that can best be described as that given to a loathsome crawling insect that one would find when lifting up a rock off the ground. It's amazing how fast someone receiving that look will swallow their tongue and scuttle out of the booth. Words were never necessary for an answer to that question. It only happened twice, but it was twice too many.

I've been asked if my B&W works are Ansel Adams prints. Kind of silly, but I think they were meaning well. I just tell them no, but they're original Wallis prints and there's a good price on them today :-)

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Permalink Reply by Larry Hering on August 4, 2011 at 7:07pm

My wife still does nudes and seminude ceramic torsos. I get a lot of "what's it made of?" and my reply, if I think I can get away with it, is "human skin", and then I go into my best Buffalo Bill.."It puts the lotion on its skin, or it gets the hose again". I either get someone running out of the booth, or it starts a conversation.

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Permalink Reply by AmyRenee Cornelius on June 11, 2014 at 10:18am

that.is.awesome!!!

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Permalink Reply by andrea bernstein on April 18, 2012 at 8:18pm

Hysterical! :D

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Permalink Reply by Douglas Farrar on April 20, 2011 at 3:43pm

We were at a show once and the artist had some prints hanging on the outside of her tent and the originals were inside. A lady asked "When are you going to paint the original?". The artist just said Oh, maybe next year." The lady said good, I only buy originals. Then the artist said let's go inside the tent I have something to show you. The lady walked away miffed that the artist teased her.