I thought I would share something we found and experimented with as we redesigned part of our booth display. We wanted some adjustable legs for shelving that could be easily removed. We found these at IKEA last winter and used them for our shelving
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My name is Jose Dias and I am new to the site and forum. I have just been welcomed by Connie and she suggested I leave a message here to introduce myself.
I am not an artist. I joined the community because I manage my wife's art stud
Read more…So in my limited experience, when I'm juried in to a show I pay my booth fee and am assigned my spot where I'll spend the next two or three days. In the case of Telfair, they sent me a street map and gave me a range from which to choose. The booth
Read more…As per the suggestions I received, this is my new set-up & booth shot.
For the past two weeks we've been putting together a new wall setup, picked up a new canopy so I could return the borrowed one. This is what We've come up with. This will be inclu
Looking for a quick (or lengthy) consensus on which looks more natural and would make a better booth image.
Larry Berman
412-401-8100
Read more…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…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…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…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…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…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
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
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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
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