Wrinkles or Not
Looking for a quick (or lengthy) consensus on which looks more natural and would make a better booth image.
Larry Berman
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Ideas for winter shows
Patti here, I live in St. Paul, MN and make cashmere hats, scarves and fingerless gloves. I have occasionally tried a summer show and they mostly don't work for me. I have found a number of good ones in Sept-Oct (people looking at fall leaves). But I
Read more…Oops, insufficient postage on the SASE. Need some Professional advise.
I absolutely can't believe I did this. Guess there's a first time for everything. Need some advise ASAP.
Couple weeks ago, I was ready to send off my application for a show I have never done before. I needed to pick up my photo's from the print shop
Read more…What if they don't want us
I just did a show recently where the executive director of the organization putting on the show, told me the city and the local businesses didn't want us there. This show is a long running show and is partially sponsored by the local arts associatio
Read more…Is God telling me something?
After totaling my van(with 260,000 miles) the search for a new(used) one became beat the clock, as we need to leave for 2 Chicago shows mid next week...with a 3 day holiday killing one of those days.... Was God telling me after 25 years to get out of
Read more…So... how do we appropriately review shows for this summer?
I had an interesting discussion with a couple of other artists this weekend. Like MANY of you, we sat at a show with non-existant crowds the first day (Yes, it was beastly hot like a lot of other shows too...) and better but still low crowds on Sund
Read more…Things people say when they think we aren't listening....
We've all had people come into our booths and even if we greet them, they act like we're not there. They continue to talk to their friends, talk on the phone, whatever! What is the worst thing that someone has said within earshot that they didn't e
What are you doing this week
I'll be at Artwalk The Promenade Bolingbrook. Hope the weather is nice and the visitors are in good spirits. Been working hard creating this ecclectic,essentric collection. Got my fingers crossed it's well received. Found a face up nickel earlier thi
Read more…old caravan - next step -- front 'door'
thanks for figuring out how to zip the caravan -- we just did it! it worked.
now, we have another question. what does one do with the 'front door' during a show? do you turn them to the inside of the tent and velcro? or outside of tent and velc
Read more…Introducing myself
Hello
Just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Suzy Jones and I live in Union, KY. I grew up drawing and took private lessons, art classes all through high school and took classes at BGSU for 2.5 years. I then married and had four children.
Read more…Closing the Sale - an 'aha' moment....
After taking a break for several years, I'm back doing fine art/fine craft shows with a brand new, higher priced product line with my glass so I’m still tweaking what works for me. I realized over the course of the past weekend, that I need to do a
Read more…Do you use insurance?
My morning blog was rerouted to the business forum. I am interested in hearing from artists who have insurance and have used it for damages from weather events. Please share if your booth, artwork or supplies were damaged in bad weather and were ab
Read more…Telfair in Savannah a good show?
Anyone have experience with the Telfair Art Show in Savannah? It's run by the Telfair Art Museum so I'm thinking it might draw the fine art crowd. App deadline is coming up so I need to make a decision whether to apply. Thanks!
Read more…Prices or no prices on your website???
Some people could be interested, some nosey, sometimes it could be your competition but at the same time what they see is what they get??? What to do? This could be great for jewelry but what about for original paintings?
Read more…jury image evaluations at the ZAPP conference
I'm going to be doing free jury image evaluations at the ZAPP conference in Atlanta September 18 - 20. For the past two conferences, I've given presentations (with Bruce Baker) but this year I was told that they want to do different programming, so I
Read more…Google Image Search
Google Image Search
This hasn't hit all the forums yet but Google has a new image search engine that's very accurate in finding out if any of your images are appearing on other peoples web sites:
http://fairtradephotographer.blogspot.com/2011/06/google
Little things
A question I just thought of. How many of you use a receipt that has your logo on it? The more your logo is seen the easier it will be to remember. You want people to remember where they bought an item, especially if it is yours. We used to silk scr
Read more…Addressing postcards: by hand or not?
I recently had a discussion about postcards with an artist who has done this many more years than me. I was saying that even though I have all my customers in a database and could easily print out mailing labels, I hand address promotional cards to m
Read more…FREE 2 Seperate Encore II EZ UP Tops, Carrying Bag, 1 Wall
Hi Fellow Art Fair Insiders,
I have some equipment to give away.
There are 2 different tops to the Encore II EZ UP tent, a rolling bag and one lone wall.
I live in the Chicago area. If I don't get back to you on the weekend, it means I'm at a show
Read more…old caravan
we were just given an old caravan canopy from our potter friend who no longer does outdoor shows. we are guessing the canopy is about 10 years old. we are embarking on a new adventure - outdoors shows - have 4 lined up for this year.
we have 25 l
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