Well, what the hell.
Imagine the finest weather ever at this show in 25 years of doing it.
Then imagine having the absolute worst sales, having people walk by not going in or looking in five seconds, then moving on.
So this is a three day show, so was my previous one. That one, I killed them. This one I barely made expenses.
I gotta drop this show. Wrong market for my work now.
That said, it was a money-maker for many.
Let me tell you about it.
SETUP AND LAYOUT.
This show is held at Coney Island Amusement Park. On the Ohio river, a major humidifier.
Three days with a Thursday setup, can do Friday setup. Show starts at noon, lasts til 7 pm.
Sat. Hours 10-7, Sun. 10-5
Most booths are on grass with plenty of room for rear storage. The show is a confusing layout, easy to get lost.
This year they added nearly 100 booths for a 350 total. Too large, greedy promoters.
Easy setup and teardown. Nice snacks for artists and lunches can be ordered.
Boothsitters available. Overall a well run show.
SALES AND CROWDS.
We had really cool weather this year. I wore my vest and long sleeved wool shirt most of the show.
Usually you roast at this show. We escaped rain all days. This was the nicest weather for this show. I have done this show maybe 20 times since the late eighties.
Usually this is a $4-6K show for me and others. This year was El stinko, I did not come close to $3K. I never sold one 16x20 framed photo ($200). All sales came out of my browse bins where prices ranged $40-$95.
This was mostly a Walmart crowd, they dressed casually and bought very Lowend.
Also they were not that well informed about art.
I had to explain about how my images were made on metal. They acted like they had not seen this before.
Crowds down my way were very thin until about noon, then sales started happening but tapered off by 3pm. Lots of quiet time with nobody even looking in the booth.
Most of the time people just walked down the middle of the aisle without even looking at the art. Why were they there?
My neighbor to the right had a fabulous show. She did painting using repurposed canvas that was originally used for circus banners.
She painted layers of white paint to create a new canvas.
Then she painted her versions of classic circus scenes like voodoo women and snake charmers. She sold one original for well over $4K.
Most of her sales came from repros priced $40-$125. She killed and got a nice award. She will be back.
A great many sales at the show came from Art on the Stick. Plenty of booths doing this.
This is a crafty show as opposed to fine art. Saw very few of the latter go by me.
Another near neighbor had a fab show selling his wood crafted lawn furniture. He is a longtime vet and always does well.
I would say if you do crafts and are moderately priced, and live within a six hour drive this is a great show to do.
For fine art it is a crapshoot.
My new work was mainly ignored. This does not happen to me at most shows. Cinnci is not my market anymore until I change.
I am going to give this show a rest for now.
I hope I did not sound too negative. This show was very good for about 40 per cent of artists.
I just think it is too big, they cannot support 350 artists.
Love to hear some feedback.
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