Podcast: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly

8869171063?profile=originalNext Podcast: Thursday, May 19, 5 pm ET

Stories from Art Fair Land

How do you earn a living as an artist? Let's talk about the pleasures and the pitfalls of choosing to be an artist in the U.S. This episode will either have you running to apply to the art festivals all across the country or running the other way, fast!

Our guests are Floridians Toni and Jay Mann who have been creating fun and functional claywork and selling it at art festivals for a long time (20 or 30 years, I'd guess).  They have had a lifetime of adventures in the art fair business and been in every town east of the Mississippi.

Also joining us are Craig and Sara Roderick, photographers from Alabama. Their desire to find a market for their work, American Road Trip Photography, brought them to the shows just a year ago.

Join us to hear the contrast between the stories of the veterans and those new to the business. What is the best part? What is the worst? and OMG what did that patron just say about your work and what did its dog do to your booth?

This will be a call in show. Show directors welcome. Let's hear it from both sides.

Get your stories ready and call in: (805) 243-1338

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  • I really enjoyed this podcast.  I felt like I was sitting around a table having a great chat with several artists. 

  • and if you want to get a jump start on this podcast read this hilarious discussion started many years ago by Jim Dalton: What's the Worst Question you've been asked at an Art Fair: http://www.artfairinsiders.com/forum/topics/whats-the-worst-questio...

  • Always available at ArtFairRadio.com, Susan, and downloadable there and at the iTunes Library too. 

  • I will not be able to be online Thursday at the time of the podcast. Will it be available later?

  • I want to encourage you to call in. My stories and Toni's and Craig's do not tell the whole story. Show directors welcome! We all have tales to tell about our ventures. What is your favorite story you tell someone when you tell them you do art fairs for a living and they want to know why?

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