How to Impress an Art Fair Jury
An article from Arborweb from July 2011
Posted to the Artfair SourceBook forum
http://arborweb.com/articles/art_that_wiggles_its_butt_full_article.html
Larry Berman
http://BermanGraphics.com
412-401-8100
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Would like some feed back, I am a Ceramic artist starting on my second season and the question is. Do you feel that 3-D artist how work in a large format, should have more space in the back of the tent to accommodate the large amount of packing mater
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Here's the body of what was sent:
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First the good things :-) To start off with, it was indoors at a State Fairgrounds bu
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Thanks
Suzanne
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I'm a new artist breaking into the art show business and I am looking at cargo vans. Does anybody here have any experience with this? Anything that you wish you would have known before you bought the van? Is there a certain max mileage that I
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