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Can you spare 7 minutes of your life to help the art fair community?  Let me convince you.

Below you will find some very interesting facts about www.Artshowreviews.com?   I have spent some time evaluating the information from the website from 2018 that I would like to share with you.   Take a look.  I think you will find some very interesting facts.   Please consider giving back to the Art Fair Community with a review or two ( about 7 minutes per review).

Fact #1:  We now have 643 Art and Craft Shows listed on our site.  We have shows throughout the entire country.  

Fact #2:  We have 7 states that do not have any art and craft shows listed at all.  The states of Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Vermont, and West Virginia have never had a show review submitted for them, thus those states have not been added.  We sure would appreciate having some reviews for those states.  

Fact #3:  The state with the largest amount of shows listed on our website is Florida.  That probably isn't a big surprise.  We have 84 shows listed on our site in Florida.  Coming in send place is Illinois with 49 shows.

Fact #4:  We have 25 states with 10 or less art and craft shows listed. 

Fact #5:  We have three states with only one art or craft show listed for them.  Those states are Arkansas, Rhode Island, and South Dakota.  Anybody have a show they can submit for these states? 

Fact #6:  We have one show listed for Canada.  We know they have shows up there.  Does anyone have a show and a review that they could add to that page to make it more valuable?

Fact #7:  We actually have a European page with one show listed.  Has anyone done an European shows yet?  We would love to add a couple shows to that page.

Fact #8:  Since our website went live we have had 1,155,274 page views.  That is amazing!  We know artists are using our website.  We need new reviews so that our site remains useful and needed.

Fact #9:  In the last 30 days, 12/12/18 - 1/12/19, we have had 11,964 page views.  Of course, this is a time when many artists are using our site to put the finishing touches on their show schedules. 

Fact #10:  We usually average about 381 page views per day.  In fact, we had had 111 page views by 11am today.  Artists were up early and working today. 

Fact #11:  Ninety two reviews or comments were left on ASR during 2018.  Of course, many people use our website without ever leaving a comment or writing a review.  Of the 92 comments left, 58 of those were actual show reviews using our list of questions to answer for the shows.  Those 58 reviews are more useful to artists.

Fact #12:  In the last year we had 143,568 page views.  Of those over 143 thousand visitors only 58 times did artists leave a review.  Certainly we can give back to the art community better than that.  

Fact #13:  The average show review probably takes about 7 minutes to write.  The form is right there on our website and you just fill it in.  Easy peasy!

Fact #14:  To submit a show review click on this link: 
     https://www.artshowreviews.com/review-an-art-fair.html

Fact #:  To submit a show that is not on our website click this link:  
https://www.artshowreviews.com/art-show-listing-submission.html

One person who visited our website left this comment:

How come so many of the posted show reviews are from 2-5 years old? Can't you supply some more updated review information from artists that have done the shows. After all, many shows go through changes from year to year.

My answer back to this person was sure, we would love to add more current and up to date reviews for each show.  However, if the artists don't submit the reviews I can't add them.  Our website will be as useful to artists if everyone does their part.  It is only 7 minutes!

If anyone has experience with the following shows, would you please share your experience.

 Blowing Rock, NC

 Lake Norman, NC

 Ashville, NC

 Kings Walk in Charlotte, NC (Fall Show)

Thank You 

Eric N.

Goodmorning Art Fair Insiders, my name is Eric and I am new to outdoor art fairs. I am looking for information on 10x10 pop up tents. I need a tent that I can put up and take down by myself and I do not need the most expensive. I am looking for brand names so I can review.

I live in the Charlotte, North Carolina area and if any one within 125 miles or so has a used tent for sale let me know by email.

Thank You

Eric

How Y'all doing.

I'm thinking of doing the Jump Street event in Harrisburg at the end of May but I have a question and I was hoping my fellow members here, could help me out.

My question is this, do the organizers of this show have any arrangements for overnight parking of RV's?  I've emailed the organization twice and still no reply. Having recently purchased an RV, I am looking forward to using it as much as possible.  I'm finding that many of the shows do but seeing as there isn't even a review for the show, as I said, I thought I'd ask you, good people, for advice.

Thanks for taking the time to read this and I hope that some of you get back to me with an answer.

Y'all have a good day now..Y'hear.

If this isn't the right forum for this, I apologize.

I have Flourish Canopy Tent - comes with a 10 x 20 and 10 x 10 top, all the awnings, hardware, etc.  I do need to set it up to make sure all the walls are in good shape, but they were when we put it away 2 years ago.  The setup new was nearly $3000, but would sell it for $1200.  (AND I would make sure it was in good shape before I'd sell to anyone.)  If you are interested, please respond to this post.  Located 50 miles south of Springfield, IL

Thank God, 2018 has ended.

This year sucked, and this show was a perfect metaphor.

This is a Howard Alan Show.  He did his job perfectly. Except not many people showed up and bought any art.

The Show is held at a very contemporary shopping center.

Estero is slightly below Ft. Myers and just north of Bonita Springs.

It is a happening place with oodles of great retail stores and cool restaurants.

The Show is held on a parking lot, very visible.  People can easily see it. About 200 exhibitors.

This was the last weekend in December, a two day show with a Friday setup in daylight.  For HAE that is very refreshing as opposed to 5am setups same day as Show.

This was only the third HAE Show I have ever done in 47 years.  I despise 5am setups, it is against my religion.

The Show has been going on here for many years, and according to longtime regulars, it has always had booming crowds.

Not this year.

It was kind of busy around 11am, after that it was a desert.

Howard does a great job.

We had generous rear storage.

The staff helped everybody, they have rules, and they are enforced equally, nobody gets a pass if they screw up.

For whatever reason, not enough serious buyers showed up.

About 30 artists out of the 200 made great money—$3k-$5k, the rest of us barely covered our booth fees.

The average artist here had an easy one thousand dollar nut to crack just to break even.

Many who I talked to did not even sell $500.

It is a terrible way to end the year.

BTW, this was my worst year in the last 18 years.  I was off sales by 30% over last year, and I did 25 shows.

2019 has got to be better.

I have a very decent schedule.

January, I have Bonita Springs and Images,NSB.

Feb., I have Ft. Myers, Artigras and Art Fiesta, NSB.

March, I have Juno Beach and Bayou City,Houston.

April, I have a biggie, Main Street Ft. Worth (now gotten in five out of last seven years, it is a killer show).

Also got Mainsail, St. Pete.

Not a bad schedule.

Will report on all of them.

You know I will always give you the complete skinny on any show I do.

I always tell it like it is.

Hopefully, prosperous times for all of us in 2019.

Happy New Year!
 
We still have a few spots open for the Mock Jury. Find out why your images aren’t making it to the final cut.

ZAPP and the Saint Louis Art Fair are offering artists an opportunity to have their images critiqued through a Mock Jury workshop.

• Learn how to make your application more competitive.
• Looking for help to improve your jury submissions?
• See how your images look enlarged and projected on a screen. 
• Are you testing the waters with a new body of work?  This is a great way

    to get some feedback. 

All artists are welcome to attend and learn! 

 
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