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September 24-October 16   
Brooklyn, New York
Presented by: Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC)
500 Artists
Deadline: August 8

Application Fee: Early Bird $45/5, 7/25
Final Deadline $65/5, $5 each additional image

Ours is a truly unique gallery - a massive Civil War-era warehouse on the Red Hook waterfront in Brooklyn, NY. Its enormous space allows us to present the 100+ pieces selected by juror Helga Christoffersen (Assistant Curator at  New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York) as well as the bonus pieces selected by the artists. 

We will be using 8,000 square feet for this show, and look forward to exhibiting artists' work from all over the USA.as well as the bonus pieces selected by the artists. We will be using 8000 square feet for this show and look forward to exhibiting artists' work from all over the USA.

The broad theme encompasses all the possibilities of your imagination-allowing you to think, play and create outside the box with few inhibitions, restrictions, rules, or guidelines.  Just set yourself free to explore the possibilities of creativity and let Ms. Christoffersen put together an exciting show.

November 10-15
St. Joseph, Michigan
Artisan Market 2012
(formerly known as the HollyMarket)
Krasl Art Center
Hours: 10:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Presented by the Krasl Art Center
100 exhibitors
Deadline: Tuesday, September 4

This juried indoor fine art & craft fair is a unique venue with a long standing history and many dedicated and loyal customers.  Art work is displayed in the Krasl Art Center's three museums galleries.  A special team of artists transform the galleries into a beautiful and tempting artist market. 

Artists, who are accepted, may either ship or drop off their art work at the Krasl Art Center for display.  The artists are not present for the show, making the Artisan Market extremely easy to participate in; apply, ship/deliver and relax.  The Krasl Art Center takes a 30% commission on all items sold at the Artisan Market. 

To bring people to the Art Center during this event we also feature a "Soup's On" lunch each weekday offering homemade soup, bread and dessert to our shoppers for a minimal cost. 

We have made some changes for 2012 with the goal of  expanding our artist base in order to offer new and fresh art to our loyal patrons:

• It is our experience that jewelry and fine crafts have been more successful than fine art. The best selling items tend to be in the $10.00 to $50.00 price range.  
• We have additionally changed name of the event from HollyMarket to Artisan Market 2012 as a reflection of the breadth of art available.
• The Artisan Market opens on the evening of Friday, November 9, 2012 with an event premiere which includes, shopping, wonderful appetizers, wine from local wineries and live music.  Party tickets are available to the public for $25.00 per person.  Artists are invited to attend at no charge as our guests of honor.

        Please apply today through our web site http://www.krasl.org/fall_art_event.php the application process is managed through EntryThingy.  The application fee is $6.00.  There is no booth fee.

We invite you to "like" our Krasl Art Center Facebook page.

For further information please contact:
Sara Shambarger, Director of Art Fairs
Krasl Art Center, 707 Lake Blvd., St. Joseph, MI. 49085
www.krasl.org, sshambarger@krasl.org, 269-983-0271

• The prestige factor
• Dollars are easier to measure than beauty
• The thrill of the hunt
• New money skews the market

December 1-4 Miami Beach hosts Art Basel, the US's largest contemporary art fair, where the art sells in the $1,000,000 range and the elite meet to hang out and "out-status" one another. At the nation's fine art street fairs we often debate prices with one another and I laughed out loud when I read this (heard often at the shows):  “If I can’t sell something, I just double the price.” That’s what Ernst Beyeler, the great Swiss dealer who helped found Art Basel, reportedly said. Some people actually prefer to pay more than makes sense.

Learn more about this high flying festival, a review of the event by Blake Gopnik in the Daily Beast:  http://www.thedailybeast.com//content/newsweek/2011/12/04/why-is-art-so-damned-expensive.html

Wow! There was even a squatter show that brought out the police to shut it down:  http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/12/02/2529410/south-beach-art-fair-shut-down.html

Interested in more gossip-y commentary on this "Art Bacchannal", "Guests dipped giant communion wafers into fountains of white and dark chocolate that streamed from the penises of two gleaming silver putti in Angel Otero’s sculpture “Pissing Contest.”

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-05/a-rod-cages-owen-wilson-amid-ugly-art-hookers-at-miami-basel.html

I'd love to hear your comments on this theme.