yes, i remember you mentioning the gallery display. so you didn't make any new framed prints for this show? i was wondering about the booth display itself i guess because some art shows require a minimum quality of appearance of the booth in addition to whatever it is you sell. these art shows require that your booth's display be of a certain type and cleanliness of appearance. i'm referring to the walls and roof you put up. if you didn't have to do this, then it wasn't that kind of show. the Shutterbug article said that the typical walls/roof asked for people in those kind of art shows typically ran about $3-5K for the booth exclusive of the cost of your inventory. better quality materials making up the booth display increase sales. think of the circulating mall craft shows.
Herb... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 18:37 Subject: Re: Back from the Art Wars: A report > 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.
