We will be participating in the NW Folk Life festival this weekend that allows street performers / buskers to roam and perform as they choose, as long as they follow some common sense rules. This can add some color and entertainment and usually is n
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Wow, just started really considering that it will cost over $1500 to pay the booth fee, hotel, van rental, gas & meals for St. James 1300 association. My booth is on 3rd St. and doesn't really look like it faces the rest of the show....I'm not sure w
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I come to you today with a shot of my 'booth' as it was set up in our driveway. My ultimate goal, at current, is to be accepted into the Ferndale art fair that occurs in September. My object in posting is to see where I might stand with wh
Read more…Has any one done the art show in montauk, NY? I'm excited about the opportunity to do this show August 19-21st but I haven't figured out affordable accommodations. Any suggestions?
Read more…Hello Friends.....this year in Cincinnati one of the biggest festivals of the year was cancelled, Appalachian Festival. Several other artists and myself have emailed and called the people that are in charge of the show. No one will respond to our rep
Read more…Well, at the peril of committing greivious mis-spellings, already did one, who cares? I will try to shed a little light on a subject just discussed in Michelle Wermuth's recent blog about newbies going out to art shows for the first time by themselv
Read more…There's been a lot of discussion amongst jewlery artists, as well as other media, about where different types of artists belong. Do "stringers" and wire workers belong in a fine art fair? Fine crafts? or "simply" Arts and Crafts? Ordinarily, I would
Read more…In the last week I have read some serious GLOOM and DOOM on AFI!
A city doesn't want an Art Fair held on it's grounds: let's all ban the fair for a year and see how they like it!
The price of gas is so high: tell me if these fairs will make me mo
Read more…I'm new here and not sure if this is the right forum (or if the topic has been done to death. I did try searching before I posted!).
After seeing photos of the horrible storm at the Columbus Arts Festival last weekend, it occurred to me that having a
Read more…As an artist and a show director I know the importance of a good booth photo. Each year I-the show director, am amazed at the wide range of booth photos that people jury with. Many frankly are dreadful.
Since booth photos are such a point of concer
Read more…Hello, all. I am new to the site, although I'm not totally new to art fairs. I've been doing juried shows for about four years, I think. I do shows mostly in Central and Northeast Ohio.
I make freeform beadwoven and bead-embroidered jewelry.
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Read more…I still consider myself a rookie at art fairs and got into Ann Arbor, the Original this year. I've had people tell me it's overwhelming, a monster, and exhausting. I'm getting nervous. Maybe people just like to exaggerate.
We are in a booth space
Read more…Can anyone provide direction on how you highlight or link to a person in a post? I've noticed that when some of the show reviews are posted, other AFi members names appear to be links and I haven't figured out how to make that work.
Read more…Looks like this show I'm doing in Greenwich NY in 2 weeks will be rainy. How do you prepare for rain besides having a canopy and praying for sunshine?
Read more…Most art shows don't compare the submitted jury images against what's in the booth when the artists are set up at the show. In the past, a few art shows did this by having a volunteer carry a book of 35mm slides to compare to what was in the artist's
Read more…Can an 80 year old show be considered a jewel?
Although my shinning opinion of the Rittenhouse show is biased because I live in Philadelphia, I was still suspect of how a show could maintain organization throughout three days in the epicenter o
Hi everybody, I am hoping you or someone you know can help me. I own a LMI Se225 CV laser machine. I have owned the machine for 10 years and use it to make my jewelry components. Recently my computer crashed and I needed to reinstall the laser-g
Read more…We are doing the Ann Arbor art fair. We have a motor home. We need information on parking at the show. Any help would be appreciated.
Read more…I need your help. I am putting together a teleseminar titled "Everything you always wanted to know about art fairs but were afraid to ask."
I need your particular questions. What scares you the most? What is your most nagging problem? etc.
Either pos
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