Anyone have any information on Wilder Mansion Holiday Market?
I found this show in the Chicago area. I was wondering if anyone has either done the show or heard anything about it.
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How Scenic is Your Set Up?
I couldn't resist posting this for my "flatland" friends in the Midwest and east. This is Longs Peak (14,000' something) and the "Notch". There is fresh snow up there and old snow fields. It's a popular but dangerous climb in Rocky Mountain National
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The 52nd Annual Ocean View Art Show is next month, October 11 & 12, in Norfolk, VA. So far this year over 100 artists have entered. I'd like to know how many AFI members will be there. The show owes some of it's success to Art Fair Insiders, and I
Read more…GREAT INFO HERE in Art Fair Survey
I have participated in the survey presented in the Art Festival Newsletter and sponsored by Saint Louis Art Fair for quite a number of years now and love reading the results once they're tallied and emailed back to me. The survey reveals very interes
Read more…Square vs. Amazon Local Register
So the big gorilla Amazon has thrown their hat into the credit card swipe ring.
I've been an extremely happy Square user for three years. Sure, they take their cut, but it's relatively painless. With Amazon I saw the fees were lower, so of cours
Read more…Newbie Booth Critique Needed, Please!
Hello everyone,
First, I want to say thank you to everyone who posts on this site! I have learned so much and I hope to contribute more when I start doing larger shows. For the past 2 years I have only done a few local small shows because........yo
Read more…Has anyone done Lauderdale by the sea (Howard Alan)
Has anyone done this show at the end of october?
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I have my first big outdoor show this weekend, and need advice...
I have a Trimline, with 35lb weights at each corner and will have somewhat heavy pieces hanging from the mesh panels which should help add weight. I think I might get a couple cinderbl
Read more…What are you doing this weekend (Sept. 12-14, 2014)?
On my radar:
- Funky Ferndale Art Fair - Detroit Area
- Chicago - find some sweet shows at the Lakeview East Festival and ARTumn in Deer Park
- one of the Howard Alan flagships -- Alexandria, VA
- I'll bet it will be lovely in Piedmont Park at the Atlanta
Looking for reviews: Scottsdale, AZ Arts Festival
I like the idea of a show in AZ in March
Looking for reviews for the Scottsdale Arts Festival
Thanks,
Bob
Read more…My Booth at the African American Cultural Festival in Raleigh,North Carolina
This was my booth during this event. I wanted people to be able to walk into my booth if the wanted to and there were many that did. There was an attendance of almost 40,000 and I never talked with so many people about my art at one event. It was a g
Read more…Updated Booth, Thoughts?
I have included a photo of my booth. This is one of the shots we took yesterday. Most of the other shots are very similar.
Just for informational purposes .... our former booth did not have the raised shelves (on left) so all the coasters were lay
Read more…What are you doing this weekend? July 11-13?
We are deep into art fair season right now! If you don't have a show you must be in some other business!
Big ones in State College, PA and Madison, WI -- I mean large numbers of artists. Then the other sweet ones, in St. Joe, MI, on the bluff overloo
Read more…Looking for reviews on the Art and Wine Festival in Rancho Murieta
Since this year is the second year of the show, does anybody have a review or heard anything about the first Rancho Marietta Art and wine festival? It would seem like a good location but we have been in shows that seem good and turn out very bad.
Read more…Arrangement of booth
Here is a picture of my potential setup. It started to rain so my jewelry is not out.
The 2 jewelry cases are 2 foot wide and 4 foot long. My dilemma is the shelves on the right, which the top shelf is counter height.
If I pushed the cases to the
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I hope I am posting correctly. After being on the AFI site for several months I thought I would introduce myself as I have gained a lot of very helpful information from the folks here, used the discussion boards, webcasts and links. All great stuff
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Back in the dark ages of this site I hosted a tele seminar for newcomers to the business where I answered the most frequently asked questions that they sent me in advance. Then we turned that seminar into an e-book that we sold on this site and our o
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A neighboring artist's son volunteered to watch my booth for a bit on Sunday, and so I took a short walk through the show at Westport, CT. What I saw really got me thinking.
Booth after booth displayed landscapes. Landscape after landscape after min
Read more…Was anyone in Anacortes, WA, this past weekend?
I just saw that the ferry from British Columbia to Anacortes was down this past weekend, which surely had to affect attendance at the show. Were you there? How did it go?
More info: http://www.nwcn.com/news/Ferry-cancellations-could-hurt-Anecortes-26
Read more…Poster Art Winner!!!!
Hello fellow Art Fair Insiders! I am humbled to share the news that a piece I submitted was chosen as one of the poster art images to showcase the Hopi Native All Native Festival scheduled for September 27-28, 2014 in Flagstaff, AZ. Tshirts and pos
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