Location
Northbridge, MA
Your Medium
Ceramic Jewelry & functional wares
Years in the Art Fair Business
2
First show ever
Foxboro Jaycees! Foxboro, MA
What are the best things about art fairs
The people I get to talk to, the rush and fear of getting ready.
Best show ever and why
Sandwich Artisans; Sandwich MA, people came to buy, were genuinely interested in art or on vacation. Shaded; good advertising, nice vendors, right by the air conditioned library with flush toilets, water fountain and books!
Worst show ever and why
Discover Marblehead; At the Jeremiah Lee mansion, MA. 2 hour drive into the sun each way, expensive vendor fee for what you actually got. No instructions on where to park and only 2 hour free parking nearby for a 6 hour show. No map for where to load in even with mobile phone numbers; there was no response even after. Two levels of turf for vendors; top level at least you could load in wagon but through narrow gate where everyone else was loading in. Lower turf area, where I was… up the block, and to the right, then between closely parked cars and onto a gravel path, overgrown with greenery and down a hill. This all means that at the end of the day you had to reverse the process! And did I mention the gravel and wagon wheels on gravel? I made very little money, barely double my booth fee. Drove home facing the sun the whole way. On the plus side, it was a sunny day with shady trees overhead. Oh, and I had three different people tell me that they didn’t even know that this was going on and they just happened by. Very poor advertising and I thought I had fully vetted it.
Who referred you to ArtFairInsiders.com? Please be specific.
It was an advertisement for another vendor service; art fair source book which was listed with you I think on Facebook. I thought they might be a good way for me to find shows in a more effective manner, but it felt sketchy because they kept saying it was free and I knew it couldn’t be. I’m just not ready to pay for that kind of stuff yet.
What is one fun fact about yourself?
I was a forestry major in college, born on Christmas Eve and now I make ceramic earrings.
