So, this year was my third Maple and Main Art Fair in downtown Sylvania, Ohio. It's a nice little fair to start my season. The volunteers there are awesome! They give us goody bags each morning and hydrate us with bottled water during the show! And they give us breaks too! For us one man shows, I am appreciative of this! I'm impressed with how they treat the artists.
By the way, Maple and Main was my first art fair in 2012. I've come a long ways since then. I was thinking this would be another about $400 show because that was my totals the prior two years. But I blew that number out of the water this weekend at Maple and Main. Yes, I'm getting ready for my BIG July. Two big hitters, Plymouth's Art in the Park and the Ann Arbor Summer Art Fair.
Maybe this little fair is finally getting the exposure it needs. It's in it's third year just like me. It expanded to more booths this year too. I am happy to do the show for my brother lives in Sylvania and I grew up in the Toledo area. I meet a lot a friends at that show too. They all come out and stop by my booth.
But my sales totals surprised me this year. Yes my fairs in June are all re-investments for July.
I have no idea!
My sad looking booth in 2012... My first art fair...
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I lived in Sylvania and worked at the Sylvania Savings Bank before it became Key Bank... (It may have been Toledo Trust at some point too).. I was looking at the pictures and trying to figure out where it was