Before noon Sunday Ann Arbor
Opening at noon on Sunday seems like it hasn't been given enough thought. Six hours (12:00 - 6:00) seems too short a time for new people to attend the show when the three days prior, the shows are open eleven hours. And historically they tried enforcing not selling until the show opened on all four days.
From my experience doing Ann Arbor, Wednesday and Friday would be the best days with more expensive work making Saturday really good for artists who fit that marketing profile. I'm really curious how Sunday will fit the template. Saturday (formally the last day) opened at 10:00.
I posted this on Art fair Insiders because show directors read this forum and I'm curious about why this decision was reached. Was it a compromise with the city? If you want Sunday, you can't open until noon?
Larry Berman
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oh, okay...
Next year, 2016, Tina ... just making sure here ...
I guess I missed the announcement on this...so the Ann Arbor Art Fair now runs thursday thru sunday? This will be an interesting experiment, if nothing else...let's see how it goes.
but then again -- maybe local people, within a 100 mile radius, will come for the day. After all, it isn't all about the merchants and the restaurants -- it is about the art.
My initial enthusiasm waned also, Larry, when I saw the hours. It is such a solidly good idea to change the Wed. to Sunday. Hope you read the link that I posted with the announcement -- the churches and parking --- I dunno, don't you think the churches and the church goers know what a boon this summer spending is for their town and they'd be willing to put up with the inconvenience?
If the reason for the change is to keep people over on Saturday night to shop on Sunday, I don't really think they are going to get the desired impact with these very short hours, and maybe the old schedule was better
Here's that link again for details: http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2015/06/its_...