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 this show at the end of october?
Read more…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…On my radar:
I like the idea of a show in AZ in March
Looking for reviews for the Scottsdale Arts Festival
Thanks,
Bob
Read more…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…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…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…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…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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…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…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
Read more…This is a good article about a group of artists meeting online, coming together for an open mic and then deciding to hold an Art Walk in that much maligned community of Bell, CA, where the politicians robbed the coffers.
When one of the city council
Read more…I am going to be upgrading from my EZ-up set up in the next few months to a trimline/lightdome/showoff etc tent. I want to know if any of these convert from a single to a double booth? atleast as far as the poles go and just get two canopies. I wou
Read more…Hi, Everyone . . .
I finally got out of my slump and boy did I do it in a big way. OMG! We had a fantastic week at the Festival in Nappanee, Indiana.
First, and most importantly . . . my husband was in the best mood ever at a show. I changed my la
Read more…I love my sidewalls and have already benefitted from having them, but at my last show, I found them to be getting in the way more than they were helping. This was particularly because in the beginning I set my tent up in the wrong direction (aghh!) s
Read more…I have a subscription to the magazine called American Art Collector. There are a few interesting advertisements in there, and one I wanted to mention for those paintiers working au plein air. Heck, this might even be an opportunity for photogs to get
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