"Herb Chong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >congratulations on a successful show. how many other booths >were there at the art show?
I'd guess about 20 but I didn't get much of a chance to look around. (An assistant would be good to have for this and other reasons.) >did they have minimum standards for the booths and if so, how much did >you have to bring yourself? how much inventory did they require you to >have? It was a juried show, so there were requirements for the quality of work (I didn't see any rubbish at any of the booths near me - pretty good stuff for the most part) but no requirements for *quantity* of material. >two or three months ago, Shutterbug did an article on art shows for a >living and some of the startup costs they mentioned seemed pretty high. I made my 12 x 18 and 12 x 16 display prints (framed) for a local exhibit last month. For the show I made 50 5 x 7 prints in 8 x 10 mats and 20 8 x 12 prints in 12 x 16 mats and bought polyethylene bags to put them in. I'd say that my overall costs were under $1000.00 total. And I still have all but one of the framed prints left and a very healthy stock of 5 x 7 and 8 x 12 prints. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
