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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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
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
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…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…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…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
Read more…Don't you just hate when that happens.
In June 2009 I shot a booth picture for a mixed media artist at Three Rivers. Not having a tripod, I shot with my point and shoot camera resting on the arm of a directors chair and was able to straighten and crop
we thank our wonderful pottery friend for giving us her caravan tent. today we took it outside and put it together. our problem -- by the time we zipped all the sides together, we lost inches so that we couldn't close the 'door' zipper (kinda like
Read more…Does any one know if there are any good shows in this area? Is Raleigh better than Durham??? Or the other way around, or does it matter????Don't know the area, but I would like to do some shows a little closer to home, which is Waynesville,NC near A
Read more…This is the first time I've done this show.
We were greeted by a enthusiastic group of volunteers one of which used a golf cart to lead us to our booth. The site is on the green at Eden Theological Seminary at Webster College, private schools. The ne
Read more…As many of you know, I've been doing this for a long time now. I believe I got started shortly after the discovery of fire. And many of you know I keep saying I love what I do for a living.
But what makes you do this? Do you do shows/fairs because yo
Read more…From the NAIA forum
Photographer Todd Lundeen was tragically killed in an auto accident the other night.
He was known for shooting beautiful third world pictures.
http://www.toddlundeen.com/
Larry Berman
http://BermanGraphics.com
412-401-8100
I posted about the artist who needed three booth images and the NAIA conference booth discussion was brought up. I'm one hundred percent for NAIA but having a discussion with about 25 or so directors won't change the hoops the artists think that they
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