For someone who hasn't done a show yet I can get overwhelmed and don't know where to start. I live in Fort Lauderdale so I plan on applying for the Las Olas show. Does not being in a show before affect your chances to be accepted in a show or are
Read more…Shaw St Louis vs St James Court Louisville
Choosing between Shaw St. Louis and St. James Court Louisville
This is a long post: sorry! I was accepted to only one Louisville KY St. James Court show, the 1300 Third Street show. I have already sent i
Read more…Has anyone participated in this show. I applied to the show by the April deadline and got in but the show extended the applications to July 17th. According to my Zapplication shopping cart the booth fee payment deadline is 7/31/2011...but, I received
Read more…I was recently notified that I couldn't paint Einstein, or use his name, or any celebrity, living or dead, without permission. Politicians are exempted for some reason. Apparently Corbis, a company owned by Bill Gates, owns the rights to Einstein's f
Read more…Okay, so I am getting close to being ready thanks to so much help from y'all. I am slated for my "virgin" show and two others this year just to get my feet wet.
my question to the veterans is this:
We all need to take credit cards....Can you all hel
I'm kind of confused on what to do. I have to separate and different bodies of work that I would like to show, but I'm concerned on what the jurors and the fair customers would think. One body of is still life and one body is manipulated travel pho
Read more…OK, I know I'm in Australia and things are different here, but I would like to get your take on how to meet a couple of criteria for a show that I would like to do.
The show is being run by an established promoter. I applied to their large show a
Read more…Hello! This weekend I'm doing CoolArt, an sort of outdoor art show taken indoors. 75 juried artists, in the usual 10x10 spaces, but inside with AC. No music, no food - so hopefully those attending will be there for, you know... art.
Last year 60
Read more…I've been looking at all of the show in Florida and in Michigan and am wondering how long does it take usually to get a response on getting into a show. I've noticed that there are a lot of days with multiple shows on them. I don't want to apply to
Read more…Hi there - I am posting this in the "newbies" section because I'm not sure where else to post...and I think maybe it shows that I'm a newbie to be asking this question; I'm sure more experienced people may have seen this before, but I just don't get
Read more…Hi, I'm a painter and would like to find a reliable, high quality, and affordable company to print digital images for me to make greeting cards. I spoke to a couple of artists who said they just had a local printer do it. However, I was wondering i
Read more…I'm looking to do some Florida shows this winter. What are your recommendations? I do enamel cloisonné jewelry. So my prices are rather high end.
Read more…This is obviously a late report, but since I hadn’t seen one yet on the Talbot Street Art Fair, I decided to go ahead and throw in my 2 cents on it. It was held in Indianapolis on June 11 and 12, 2011.
This was my first time as an exhibitor. I’d app
My foray into framed work is going well. Many positive remarks from the browsers. Fewer sales, of course. But enough encouraging remarks to continue. Now I'm wondering about how to photograph it for jury. Do you include the whole package, frame, mat
Read more…I've been so excited about the idea of doing art fairs, sitting with my work and meeting people interested in art, networking, learning from other artists and HOPEFULLY making money.
For weeks I've been combing this wonderful, fascinating site to r
Read more…A couple weeks ago I received an email from a chiropractor in the area who just opened a new office. (I seem to recall this same person also approached me at an art fair in the fall and "convinced" me she would be back the next day with her husband
Read more…Periodically we have flare ups on this site where the discussion and comments get a little heated. My usual advice is to "step back from your keyboard", think for a minute or more and read the posting literally. A little thinking and reading between
Read more…Last winter member Peggy Furlin suggested that it would be good to be able to identify other artists out on the road and said that maybe a "Red Dot" bumper sticker would help us find one another. We made them, we've been passing them out to members o
Well I'm going to do first fair this weekend at the Geneva Fine Art Fair. Is anyone else going?
I'll be with the emerging artists. I'm not sure how it'll work because the wall will be smaller than originally described and my paintings are quite large
Read more…I'm hoping someone might have some feedback / suggestions for us on how to best approach 2 new galleries we're interested in.
Today we have our pieces in 3 galleries, after deciding to drop out of one of the galleries we were in due to some invento
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