Renegade Craft Fair Reviews'

Medium: Mixed
Year you most recently exhibited at this Show:
2014
Your Estimated Sales at this Show: $501-$2000
Number of Years You have Exhibited in this Show:
1st time
Attendance: (1 is poor, 5 is great) 5
Location: 5
Facilities: 4
Ease of Participating: 4
Sales: 4
Overall: 4
Booth Fee vs. Your Sales Ratio: Okay
Estimated Attendance: 501-10,000 people

Good Things about this Art Fair:
- Extremely organized. They give you a lot of helpful and great information about the show itself as well as how to be successful

- Well-attended. It's a huge show, and I got a ton of exposure by participating.

Bad Things about this Art Fair:
- Hard to get in, booth fees are pricey

Advice to Other Artists Considering this Show:
See my blog post that reviews the show and gives advice for more information:

http://www.forageandbloom.com/blog/2014/9/11/renegade-recap

I highly recommend you go for it if you're considering applying to this Fair...it's fun, it's a great learning experience, and it can be a great way to get your name out there and make a substantial amount of money! That said, it's a lot of pressure...so do your homework and be prepared!

The URL of your profile on ArtFairInsiders.com. http://www.artfairinsiders.com/profile/MegSvec

Posted by: Meg Svec | 10/16/2014 at 03:23 PM

Show Name: Renegade Craft Fair
City and State: Chicago, IL
Your Medium: 2D mixed media
Year you most recently exhibited at this Show: 2012
Your Estimated Sales at this Show: $2001-$5000
Number of Years You have Exhibited in this Show: 2-3 times
Attendance: (1 is poor, 5 is great) 5 (great)
Location: 5 (great)
Facilities: 5 (great)
Ease of Participating: 5 (great)
Sales: 5 (great)
Overall: 5 (great)
Booth Fee vs. Your Sales Ratio: Great
Estimated Attendance: 50,001+ people

Good Things about this Art Fair: This fair is really well attended and promoted very well.

Bad Things about this Art Fair: They are severly limiting their fine art. They want mainly trendy crafts and tshirts now.

The show is not very diversified in their vendors. There are way too many of the same type of product available.

Advice to Other Artists Considering this Show: Apply if you make trendy crafts. Forget about it if you sell fine art.

Posted by: Sarah M | 07/09/2013 at 11:41 PM

Show Name: Renegade Craft Fair
City and State: Chicago, IL
Your Medium: Glass
Year you most recently exhibited at this Show: 2012
Your Estimated Sales at this Show: $2001-$5000
Number of Years You have Exhibited in this Show: 3-5 times
Attendance: (1 is poor, 5 is great) 5 (great)
Location: 5 (great)
Facilities: 4
Ease of Participating: 5 (great)
Sales: 5 (great)
Overall: 5 (great)
Booth Fee vs. Your Sales Ratio: Great
Estimated Attendance: 501-10,000 people

Good Things about this Art Fair: Everything! I love this fair! It's such an all around pleasant experience. The organizers jury carefully and put together an amazingly cohesive show. They publicize it incredibly well and attract huge crowds of people who want to buy things. The show is a pleasant place to be, fellow artists are almost always charming interesting folks. Attendees spend money. Load in is smooth and organized. Same for tear down. This is my favorite fair of the year. I wish they could all be like this.

Bad Things about this Art Fair:No flush toilets but I'm not complaining.

Advice to Other Artists Considering this Show:Don't do this show if your work does not fit in with the Renegade aesthetic. Part of what seems to make it work is the way everything (all the work on display) looks good together.

Also, I (and many others) had trouble with my Square reader all weekend, apparently because all the vendors were using Square at the same time and clogging the network. If you have some other way to process credit cards this is the place to use it.

Posted by: Kit Paulson | 09/16/2012 at 02:15 PM

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