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Artexpo New York, the world's largest fine art trade show for over 32 years, is now accepting submissions for our 2011 show. From March 25-27, Artexpo New York 2011 will descend upon Pier 94 -- NYC's Art & Design Pier -- for a weekend of extraordinary fine art, education seminars and exciting events.
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I am a grown woman and know better. At the very least if I accept a beer from a stranger I make sure the beer is opened infront of me. This festival kept their artist calm by keeping us tipsy with free drinks thru out the show. It worked too until it was time to sober up. It wasn't pretty and actually had me in tears at the end and I am not a boo hoo cry baby. I held it together until the drive home and never raised my voice. My southern mom would be proud. Steel Magnolia till the end.
This was my year to try all juried outdoor shows ITP (inside the perimeter of Atlanta) if I was intown. I now know which ones I will do. Needless to say Candler Park is not one of them. I really don't feel there is a point going into more detail because it is all just plain bad all around, except for the weather and the Sweetwater. It was also great to meet other Artfair Insiders there. Thanks for stopping by and introducing yourselves.
Happy birthday, Nels. I never turn to this site that I don't hope there is a new missive from you. Many thanks for all the info, photos and laughs from you in the last year.
Connie Mettler
- On Sunday morning radar showed serious cells of thunderstorms coming straight at the show. Did anyone warn us, like show organizers, volunteers, coordinators, etc? No, of course not, but luckily artists take care of their own and we figured it out, buttoned down the hatches, etc. We had serious rain - a river ran through my booth - on and off all morning, with thunder I might add. Skies were dark and radar showed more cells coming, one after another. A number of booths closed completely and never re-opened. I stayed open because I am a Pollyanna (ha, I should say I used to be a Pollyanna).
- During the ongoing rain, show volunteers walked around with beer and wine, attempting to ply the artists into a happier mood. Some partook, others didn't; I kept thinking about my drive home and also the fact it was 11 am which is a tad early for me. Volunteers were drinking all this time and the show personnel appeared to be in a raucous frame of mind. Despite constant discussion (among artists) about closing the show, nothing was done.
- Sometime around 2 (I am guessing on time, honestly my brain is still a bit mildewed) we were told the show would close at 3pm. I started to wrap my art, all the time leaving it on the walls so the scant crowd could view it if desired. Like many, I was all packed up by 3pm which is when management changed their mind and decided to leave the show open till 5pm. No cars would be allowed on the premises.
- Being wet.cold.cranky.poor (my sales were abysmal) did not help my response, but I decided to dolley out. Over cobblestone, cable car tracks (oh yeah, I forgot to mention a cable car ran by my booth the entire show and that my premium $450 corner fee got me a booth that had to be set up *sideways* due to Fire Dept regulations. Meaning my front door was not in line with the front doors of all the other booths. Me and some others, maybe 4 of use like that (out of 190 artists).
- I did not make my booth fee. I had done well last year, with sales that had another digit.
- Bottom line. Poor show management - this show might be trying to be like the big guns, but I just don't see it. I've done Des Moines, St. Louis, Plaza, etc. No comparison - those shows put the safety and interests of the artists first. I did not see that at River Arts Fest.
- And oh, did I mention that all the stuff run by the show (like stages, artmaking tent, garbage cans) were g-o-n-e. I couldn't even throw my garbage away when I left at 3 pm. Even though the show was still open till 5.
Funny, huh? Gotta love this business.
i live in north New Jersey by New york city and it will be about 2500 miles to drive there ,my style is abstract colorful art... the show will be for 2 mounths and half starting January 20th...
thanks and long live art.
Ridgeland, Mississippi
Renaissance at Colony Park
presented by the Ridgeland Tourism Commission
100 artists
Deadline: October 31
Dear Artists,
Your fellow artists Dale Rayburn (www.dalerayburn.com), Mamie Joe (www.mamiejoe.com) and I, H.C. Porter (www.hcporter.com), invite you to be among the outstanding 100 artists who participate in the third annual Renaissance Fine Arts Festival.
In our short history, this contemporary fine art show has been host to some of the best independent fine artists and contemporary craftsmen on the road today. Hopefully, you have heard great things about our stunning venue, our hospitality and even our record - breaking heat! That's why this awesome show has made the decision to move up seven weeks to the cooler month of April! Now you can show and sell your work in Mississippi as part of your southern route with some of the Texas spring shows and/or Atlanta and New Orleans shows.
The Renaissance Fine Arts Festival is presented by the Ridgeland Tourism Commission, a tax-exempt, state-chartered agency. All festival proceeds are used to produce and promote the show.
We look forward to having you and your artwork in Mississippi!
H.C. Porter
POINTS OF INTEREST:
- Artists retain all proceeds from their sales
- $7500 awarded by our judge
- number of participants limited to 100
- All proceeds are used to produce and promote the festival
- Complimentary continental breakfast on Saturday
- Artist awards breakfast on Sunday morning at the Biaggii's Ristorante Italiano
- Box lunch delivered to your booth on Saturday & Sunday
- Bottled water delivered to your booth periodically
- Your name, medium, city and state will be listed in our festival program
- Complimentary festival t-shirt
- Van and RV parking close to the festival
- Reduced room mates at our on-site host hotel, the new Hyatt Place Jackson/Ridgeland
- 24 hour security
- booth sitters
$7500 will be awarded by our judge. Best of show - $1500,
and first place in each media category will receive $500. All award winners will be automatically juried into the 2012 Renaissance Fine Arts Festival. ADVERTISING AND PROMOTION:
Our advertising and promotion effort publicizes the festival throughout the state of Mississippi and the Southeast region. The festival will also be marketed through direct mail, Internet outlets and paid advertisments in tourist publications.
More details are available at our web site: www.renaissanceartsfest.com
Apply today: www.zapplication.org
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ArtServe Michigan is seeking to hire a new full-time Creative Industries Associate position. Reporting to the Director of Creative Industries, the Creative Industries Associate provides administrative and program-related support for our initiatives directed at practicing professional artists and creative entrepreneurs in Michigan. Specifically, this position will support two major grant-funded initiatives: the Creative Many Initiative and The Kresge Artist Fellowship Professional Practice Opportunities.
The Creative Many Initiative is a statewide program offering professional practice seminars and individual consultations, peer-driven networking and dialogue events, and research and analysis activities to support the creative sector.
The Kresge Foundation offers $25,000 through its Artist Fellowship program to individual artists in literary, performing and visual arts in Macomb, Oakland and Wayne Counties. In addition, awardees are offered year-long professional practice opportunities through ArtServe Michigan, including the Creative Capital core weekend workshop and additional meetings with invited local, national and international speakers offering insight into diverse aspects of practice.
The Creative Industries Associate position is a full-time position designed to work closely with other members of the ArtServe staff, independent contractors, and key stakeholders and volunteers to successfully develop and deliver these activities under the supervision of the Director of Creative Industries (DCI) and in line with the mission and aims of ArtServe Michigan. The salary for this full-time employee position is up to $35,000 commensurate with experience.This position is based at our Wixom offices.
Application Process
Interested applicants should download the full position description before submitting a cover letter, demonstrating their interest, suitability, and experience related to this position, a current resume and contact information for two (2) references.
Full Position Description : Creative Industries Associate Description
More Information : https://www.artservemichigan.org/?q=node/45
Email: hr@artservemichigan.org
Human Resources
ArtServe Michigan
1 Clover Court
Wixom, Michigan 48393
Application deadline: Friday, October 29, 2010
Start date: November 2010 or until filled
So, this past weekend Oct 16th and 17th was the Bethesda row art show in Bethesda Maryland.
Unfortunately it is one of those shows with a Saturday morning set up starting at 5 a.m. That being said, set up was very well organized with easy unload and plenty of time to be set up before the show. Every street has a street captain and they kept things moving and traffic to a minimum. Free parking garages located near by made this even better. I will say that as it got later in the morning there was a back log of artists but everyone seemed to be able to set up and open on time (10:30 a.m.) with the show officially opening at 11 a.m. Show director Katie Beckett and her team did a great job.
Weather for the weekend was great. A little wind on Saturday with mostly sunny skies temperatures in the 60's. Sunday warm and pleasant with themperatures in the 70's
The jury committee did a great job with a lot of great art and artists. The quality of work was outstanding.... much along the lines of the Reston show earlier this year.
The crowds were great with people filling the streets from open until the close of the show. This also seems to be an area that appreciates art and understands that their is a price attached to one of a kind orginal art. Many wanted to know the process and what was behind the art. The people in this area were friendly and were not afraid to spend. I saw a lot of art being carried to cars including my own.
Though I didn't talk to a lot of artists (I was busy!) , neighbors seemed to be pleased with results. A great silk artist who produces wearable art across from me seemed to do well and was busy. A wood artist also across from me who makes spoons,salad tongs, forks (useable art) was busy both days for a large part of the day. And a painter beside us who sells large pieces of original work sold a couple of nice pieces. He said he usually doesn't gauge the success of a show based on what he sells at the show but more on commissions after the show. However, he was quite happy selling the pieces he sold. He has been doing this show for several years.
Nothing fancy about this show like an artisits' dinner. Awards were handed out Sunday morning, donuts were offered to the artisits off the back of a cart traveling through the show Sunday morning. Bottom line however, is that none of that really matters as long as the show is run well with high quality work and people attending willing to spend their money on art they appreciate........all of which occurred at this show.
Tear down Sunday night was again very organized with street captains keeping things moving and organized. Katie the show director also visited booths during the show to see how things were going and soliciting any comments from the artists.
Though I am relatively new with only about 20 shows in the last two years the Bethesda Row show was one of the best run, best attended and organized show I have done. I look forward to getting the opportunity to show again there next year.
The title of the article is "80% of US Residents Make Handmade Jewelry"... Please note that the articles are made up but sound convincingly true. I can't help but wonder though, with so much jewelry at shows - how many of US residents really do make handmade jewelry. Any thoughts? - Michelle
Sales were pretty good. Friday, ladies day, was as good as the other days for me. As a jewelry metalsmith, I know that there is always going to be a lot of competition so I was pleased. My neighbor, a potter who does work that is more like porcelain, mentioned that she is always surprised at this show. She usually sells a lot of small items like mugs and small vases but here she sells a lot of her higher end work. She was delighted.
Load in is very easy as we are able to drive right to our spot if we come at our assigned time and the complimentary electrical hookup is there waiting for you. Load out was also a snap, however, since they asked us to wait 45 minutes after the show closed to drive in, some artists chose to dolly out. We found that by the time we had everything torn down it was time to drive in.
Connie's complimentary jury images critique on Sunday morning is anticipated and appreciated by me. It is so helpful to see everyone's slides and listen to the comments about what is good and what is not so great. I paid another promoter $50/60(?) to critique my images in March or April and she isn't going to give her response until Feb. How helpful is that since I will have already had to apply to most of my 2011 shows by then.
The staff at Rock Financial and Connie Mettler are all very helpful. Artist amenities are great and while you have to purchase all food and drink there the prices are not outrageous and they have a wonder soup and salad bar in addition to the usual junk food.
All in all it's a wonderful show to do and hopefully it will just keep getting better.
sherry
As with most shows the last year or so, sales were not what I might have wished for but definitely good. My media is sort of "over-the-top" beaded jewelry (75.00-1800. price range) and I sold at least half of my inventory....an average sale was around 110. for this show.
Only real complaint was no restrooms at the far end of the building. Hey, I'm an "old lady" and had to plan way ahead for the long trek to the other end of the show....LOL.
During set-up, the items I had requested where there when I arrived and a minor electrical glitch was taken care of right away Also appreciated the 'snack & beverage' cart that came around for the artists all during the show. The food offered by the concessionaires was good ( I especially like the hot soups). I enjoyed the artists party after closing on Saturday....very good buffet and the bar was most appreciated...lol. Moving out went without a hitch and I was back on the road to home 1 hour & 5 minutes after closing.
In looking back over the weekend, I'm thinking this would do just as well as a 2-day show or a set-up Friday and Friday evening Ladies Special but that's just my opinion.
Thank you to all those involved in putting the show on and I've already signed up for Spring!
Cassandra Graham
Kalamazoo County Fairgrounds & Expo Center
Kalamazoo, Michigan
9:30 - 4:00
Approximately 110 booths
Deadline: November 1 (received by)
You've heard how fun it is. This is your chance to find out for yourself! This is the show to sell your seconds, overstock, duds or things you're just tired of looking at in your booth, even your art supplies or art you've traded for!
It's only 5 ½ hours long with morning set-up. So make it easy on yourself, rent some tables and forget the normal time consuming display.
It's run by Bonnie Blandford (jewelry) and Michael Kifer (clay) who both make their living doing art fairs so hopefully we know how to make it more fun! Besides, who doesn't need money in February?
The scoop:
- $10 application fee
- Booth fees are $110
- Very few rules (no buy/sell)
- Share a booth if you'd like
- Mark things down and move them out!
P.S. Yes, I attend this show every year and bring my friends-- fabulous shopping and fun for everyone! Show director--Bonnie Blandford, yes, fun!
This show should be better. Some people mentioned that they didn’t hear any radio advertising but there were huge banners across the main highway and good signs pointing to the event. If you got close to the show you couldn’t miss it. It is a nice location with perfect entertainment that encouraged people to listen but still walk around. The weather was a little warm but very close to perfect. The area is not super rich but good solid middle class. The quality of artists was very high. Yet I spoke to a lot of artists who sold either nothing or very little. I’ve done this show for three years and it has always been an “almost good” show. They have had trouble nailing down a date for this show. The first year they picked an empty weekend only to have Maitland move to the same weekend. So they moved it and ended up against the Mount Dora Craft show. They moved the date again this year and I don’t think anything major was going but the crowds just weren’t quite there. There was a fairly steady stream of people though and I did do better than the previous two years.
The treatment of the artists is great. Breakfast and lunch both days. I didn’t go to the artists’ dinner but I heard it was quite nice. Setup and breakdown are fairly simple for most spaces. Some spaces you can park right behind or close to your booth. The booth spaces are good sized and you can get a fake corner for $25 extra. They have patron dollars which made a difference in my bottom line.
It is obvious that the promoters have put some effort into planning this show and making it artist friendly. I don’t expect to be in Florida next year at this time but if I am I will give this show another try.
One positive after a horrendous series of events is being forced to get back to the passionate basics of creativity that compelled me to leave a secure science career to become a freelance editorial and architectural photographer in Boston. That lasted about three expensive rent payments before I moved back home to Pennsylvania where I grew that auspicious start through several business models to a ten person ad agency over 25 years. Then I outlived forty-two clients by 9/11 before taking what I thought was the best of three opportunities in 2003 and relocated my family to Texas.
Oops.
We enjoyed the Tex Mex food, if my belt size was any indicator, and the Ft. Worth Zoo, Science Museum, art galleries and downtown art fair. The career-wise and lifestyle bar fell somewhere below sea level after a hit and run in a Lowe's parking lot, and the $4,400 online identity theft of my personal account that was traced by Bank One back to a vendor cheated by my employer; the FBI agent laughed since $25,000 was their minimum to investigate and the Ft. Worth(less) police were too busy waiting in line at the donut shop to bother despite my not being able to buy a bottle of water for my kids' survival with everything locked up. Giving credit where it's due, the security guard at the bank stayed well back during my loud discussion with the branch manager who allowed a 9 month old debit slip for $183 to be the basis for a $4,400 online withdrawal; the bank manager did, reluctantly, give me the information about who and how, and the Ft. Worth police did stay away after my irate suggestion that I take care of the issue myself. It was resolved by me by the following day with no injuries, and before their donuts were digested.
Combined with an occasional vacation visit to galleries or fairs in the Northeast/New England, that experience moved from the back of my life-damaged mind to the front to the point where I have actually started the very early stages of (again) becoming an artist. The current value of my $30,000+ of film equipment and ad agency printers, now nothing more than costly outdated paper weights, along with forced early retirement, prevents me from investing in the most basic start-up materials (printer/tent) for my new goal of creating exhibition photography and digital art for art fairs. So, I'm keeping busy by going through 30 years of highly edited photography files and scanning images I think may be suitable as fine art. That, and feeding apples to the deer that visit daily; and cat food to the raccoons on the deck and trash to the skunk, all of which visit daily in our Pocono Mountain yard.
Unlike the armadillo that tore up my shoelaces in Columbus, TX, while minding my own business, more or less, the four bears I met in our yard since crawling back home to Pennsylvania didn't attack. Things are looking up.
This 'craft' event had about sixty five 'vendors'. At least five or six were commercial or political. Another ten were obvious buy/sell, with another ten very suspect. I was there with three other club members, two who sold their work. We didn't pay anything for our booth as a civic organization, but were provided power for our equipment and were allowed to sell. One other club member and I had several items on display Sunday (I wasn't there on Sat.), but the mediocre crowd wasn't buying much of anything from anybody. Although I talked to five nearby people that I could tell made what they were selling, none sold much of anything. None of them claimed to have made much more than booth fee. My club was looking for new members (and I think we found a few), paid no money, so we were very 'profitable'. Why was anyone else even there? Why did they think they'd sell anything there?
From my experience, my wife and I know this event would not be a profitable one for us, even with a booming economy. Although not far from what is a reasonably urban environment (not metropolitan), this one is much more blue-collar. An Internet search of the median income statistics of this area shows it. Although we do have low priced items, our average price points were way above what an average person there would want to spend. We'd just never consider this as a potential venue as our 'product' just wouldn't fit what they'd buy - they'd rather get it at a *-Mart cheaper.
What was obvious today was that the area has been really affected by the economy. Those that came had little to no discretionary money, and although many picked up some of my pieces, they put them back down when they saw the price tags. They weren't poor, homeless or in rags; they just couldn't spend anything on even functional art. Instead, they spent it on their kids or grand kids - face painting, balloons, pony rides, food. I believe a few of the vendors were newbies, but at least twenty had been around the proverbial block. I'm left wondering still why they were there, other than the old 'keep trying, only harder!' thing, but then I wonder about a lot of things some times.
