Oh I DO love this art festival. The park setting is absolutely beautiful. The selection of artists is well done with great variety and quality. The committee is friendly and helpful. The volunteers are always at the ready and checked on us frequently. There is a wonderful dinner on Saturday evening with awarding of the ribbons and prizes. There was a steady stream of patrons both days and I saw a good number of purchases large and small in their hands. Saturday we sold small prints mostly – but a lot of them. The price of my small prints was admittedly VERY reasonable. I am discontinuing the 8x10 so priced to sell and sell they did. We did make a couple of good sales at closing time, when most of the other artists had already closed their doors. It’s never over until it is over. Sunday was one of those picture perfect days. It was sunny and 70’s and slight breeze. One of those days that make you glad to be alive. We sold several canvases and a couple of the larger ones. Again, we made sale of a large canvas just at closing time. And the best part is of the 20 some photographers I took a ribbon and some prize money. YEAH. Interesting (and scary) that the artist is responsible for selecting the piece that is judged. I selected one of my new prints where I went outside my comfort zone. It is the only piece that is obviously manipulated in Photoshop. It is very different than anything else in my “gallery”. Apparently a good choice. Overall a very nice weekend at a wonderful art festival.
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I have read this thread a couple times.... and I have to say, that I love this photo... it is gorgeous! Atta girl. My daughter was accepted for this coming year so I guess I will be takin the trip and see how this show is.
Yes, congrats on the award and thanks for the review.
A well deserved !st place! Congrats!!!
It was a wonderful show for me as well. I sold double what I expected... mainly because Sunday I sold my biggest piece; a triptych, framed. The show is good because Tallahassee has one big fine Art show per year and no promoter shows. People are hungry for art and they buy!
Thank you Melanie and Annette. Agree Dean, there were some that were not so considerate during load out. There is at least one at every show.
Congratulations on both a good show and a ribbon/award Maryllis!
I was there as well, and I concur. Great location, very good foot traffic, people are awfully friendly there, and the weather was awesome. Folks organizing it were nice. My only complaint, and it is a common one, is that tear down on sunday was disorganized. Had people pulling their cars/trucks/etc up to tear down at 3pm, and their display was still up. In my opinion, that is a telling point on who is professional, and who is not. A professional tears down their display, takes it to the sidewalk, THEN gets the vehicle, loads up, and is done and gone in 10 min. ok, off my soapbox. :) All in all, I requested to be there again next year! :)