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What is Your Art Show Experience as a Customer or Vendor?

From the lens Doing Art Shows--Yes or No?.

  • OhMe Mar 6, 2009 @ 9:09 pm | delete
    Lensrolling to Spring Jubilee Juried Arts and Crafts Festival. You have a lot of very useful info here for artisans.
  • JudyDunn Oct 25, 2008 @ 4:34 pm | delete
    Craft shows have become like a traveling museum. Artists and their work are the entertainment, but they do not get a cut of the gate that the promoter is charging. They pay their booth fee, travel expenses, etc., in the hopes that the economy is strong, gas prices did not shoot up, there is not a blizzard or hurricane, etc. And, if any of the aforementioned events do happen, ....well, it is too bad. I prefer wholesale. Not only does someone else sell my work, but it is out and available for sale all year, not just for a few days.
    There are some advantages to the first hand contact with customers, but the risks and expenses far outweigh the rewards, at least for me.
  • Evelyn_Saenz Sep 30, 2008 @ 11:12 am | delete
    I love to go to outdoor art shows. I can look for something unique and special, get inspired and talk with the artist. Indoor galleries make me feel so pressured to buy that I avoid them completely but at art fairs I occasionally find something that truly strikes my fancy.
  • Joey_G Jul 14, 2008 @ 2:06 am | delete
    I personally avoid showing to outside events. Its much safer and more comfortable for the Artist and the Buyer to see the work in a museum.
  • The_Homeopath Jul 10, 2008 @ 10:11 pm | delete
    As a customer, I avoid outdoor shows. They're too busy, chaotic, and you never know what the weather has in store. I like to be able to take my time, let the work speak to me, and not worry about sun, wind, chills, rain, kids running by with ice cream cones (oh wait, those might have been mine), a million lookie loos that aren't interested in art at all, ugh. Nope, no outdoor stuff for me.

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