Connie Mettler's Blog – September 2017 Archive (16)

Hello all of you who over the last 8-10 years have been generous to share your ideas, show reviews, tips and stories in the Blog here on ArtFairInsiders.com. During this time over 6000 posts have been added to this blog. Impressed? I know I am ... however ...

Changing times means even AFI needs to make some changes now and then. Starting today if you come to this site to add a blog post will you please instead post it in the "Discussions?" 

I hope by moving the blogs to…

May 11, 12 and 13

Greenville, South Carolina

Presented by: Artisphere

135 Artists

Deadline: October 6

NEXT PODCAST: After the Hurricane, 10am ET, Fri., Sept. 22

Found on the forum on ArtFairInsiders.com:

I would imagine any shows scheduled for this fall are being cut. It will take months for Florida's…

April 7 & 8

The Woodlands, Texas

Presented By: The Woodlands Arts Council

225 Artists…

2018 ARTIGRAS FINE ARTS FESTIVAL  

EXTENDS APPLICATION DEADLINE DUE TO HURRICANE IRMA

Grace. Photograph by Phoenix. All Rights Reserved.…

Hurricane Irma delays the deadline. New deadline: Sept. 19…

If you have any time between September 20 and October 8 and live anywhere near Grand Rapids, MI, you owe it to yourself to attend the amazing ArtPrize. This is an open international art competition decided by public vote and expert jury who award $500,000 in prizes. ArtPrize is held throughout the city and is recognized as the most attended public art event on the planet.…

Lucky me, I got to see Houston last October attending the Arts Festival Conference, visited old friends in a grand old neighborhood, stayed downtown at an historic hotel and spent the weekend in Galveston, driving for miles along the Shipping Channel where the cargo ships come and go from the Gulf of Mexico. Ten months later, disaster.

A friend of mine Cynthia Reid, former art director of…