Greetings,
Welcome to the Cooper studio, Jefferson, Iowa, where I got a red flag this morning. It came to my inbox.
I'l like to share it with you - maybe it came to your inbox as well? Surely.
Festival Layout Expanded!
A few great spaces are available for the festival
Does that not make everyone run and hide? Put their propanels in the back corner of the basement? Purposely AVOID getting the oil change done on the art-schlepper-van?
If the festival staff (in this case a promoter) has to tell you there are a few great spaces left, then I can tell you there really weren't any great spaces to begin with. Shows with great spaces are competitive enough that they have extra artists (on the waitlist, drooling over the idea of a last minute chance)
$450 for an art festival that can't even fill it's spaces on the first jury round? I think not.
It does NO GOOD to stand around on Sunday morning at a festival, where only two artists have sold well so far on the weekend, and complain about the economy (or whatever) Sometimes we just need to keep the propanels in the garage.
KCooper
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I'll be in Lexington, KY for the Holiday Art show that same weekend. Set up starts on Friday at 10:00AM, so I'll leaving home around 7:30. I checked the Hot Works website and the artist roster isn't posted or finalized yet. Maybe we can find a familiar name or two and see if we can get some reports out of them. BTW, I'll go ahead and do a report on the Nashville show. I received some information from someone who visited this past weekend. It wasn't a pretty sight.
Me too. Very curious. Any chance you'd like to attend and give us a report? You might call it a vacation. A weekend in the South. Right?
I'm still curious to see how the Hotworks show in Evansville turns out, The Red Flag on that one was a screamer, $550 for a 3 day first time show in an area that is a death trap for art shows. It'll take place on the weekend of Nov. 17. It's a 3 hour drive from home, and I've stuck my neck out and lost on a bunch of shows this year, but that one was just incomprehensible to me.
just because it's advertised here does NOT mean we have to support it here.
I would say more than just a few spaces are available.
It's a show that's advertised on the home page of AFI.
Larry Berman
http://BermanGraphics.com
412-401-8100
Care to tell us which show?
Heh, I've gotten dog bit like that a few times. Those emails now go to File 13 ;-)