This week last weekend I did the 47th Art Fair at the North Shore Unitarian Church Il. that always had been good. So what went wrong? The show has been running 47 years and they have a processing fee which is only $25 nonrefundable and booth is a $100 for a two day show and they also take 15% of your sales. All this is not to bad but this year a new person was in charge and it was a nightmare. They used Facebook for advertising and I am sure they did not know how Facebook works. They sent postcard to past patrons,they have a website but it was not working they also sent us post cards to mail out to our following. The final touch signs the size of for rent signs (2) in front of the church.Eligibility for the show was all work was to go through their jury process or by special invitation.(Ha!) All work must be the original work of the artists . Well this is what was there 56 booths of which 25 were jewelers along with two of them being by to sell.Can you guess how sales were Sh!! no people no nothing except the felling you got fleeced, and the worst thing I really can't ask for my $25 dollars back for not doing their job and I believe they also took people to just fill the space because the called it a process fee not jury.So my advise is stay away from this show and be sure to read your pape work very carefully. I can not believe how promoters are just doing everything they can to be sure the get all the money they can and give us less and less.
Yes in fact I did one Tuesday it was a market place and it was great one and I am sure there will be more in my line up for the rest of the year. So here's to good shows for all this season.
Sounds like a situation where the former committee got tired and the new folks weren't all that interested in doing the job. Too bad. We did this show a few times a number of years ago and it was pretty good, lots of well-educated people in the crowd who knew what they were looking at.
Hopefully someone new or tried and true will step up for next year.
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Sounds like a situation where the former committee got tired and the new folks weren't all that interested in doing the job. Too bad. We did this show a few times a number of years ago and it was pretty good, lots of well-educated people in the crowd who knew what they were looking at.
Hopefully someone new or tried and true will step up for next year.
Thanks, Jan, sorry you had this experience but appreciate you sharing it with us. I hope you have some better shows lined up.