Bella Vista Arts and Craft Festival Review

Medium: 2D mixed media
Year you most recently exhibited at this Show:
2014
Your Estimated Sales at this Show: $2001-$5000
Price Range of your Work: $40 print / $4000.00 original
Number of Years You have Exhibited in this Show:
3-5 times
Number of Years You have been doing Art Fairs overall: Forever...
Attendance: (1 is poor, 5 is great) 4
Location: 3
Facilities: 3
Ease of Participating: 3
Sales: 3
Overall: 3
Booth Fee vs. Your Sales Ratio: Good
Estimated Attendance: 10,001-50,000 people

Good Things about this Art Fair:
Easy going and considerate organization. They are making a real and aggressive effort to eliminate buy and sell.

This year, 2015, they abandoned the 10% of sales plus booth fee. The booth fee was raised to make a fair contribution by each booth.

In an effort to upgrade the quality of the show and get a better balance they also completely rejuried - taking out grandfathered booths.

The staff is making a real effort to produce a quality art and craft show.

Bad Things about this Art Fair:
The show is very heavy in craft - country craft.

If your work is contemporary / abstract / modern you won't find an audience here.

Advice to Other Artists Considering this Show:
Don't travel far for this unless low end country craft is your thing. If you're close (four state area) and your art work is representational (nature/horses/landscape) you should give this a try!

The URL of your profile on ArtFairInsiders.com.
http://christinasmith.net

What prompted you to submit a review today?
Want to help the show and other artists

Posted by: Christina Smith | 09/01/2015 at 11:35 PM

Did the Bella Vista Fall Arts & Crafts Show this year (Oct, 2014).
Location: 5
Facilities: 4
Ease of participating: 5
Sales: 2D Ouch, Crafts 5
Overall:4
Attendance 5
The show was well run, with plenty of volunteers willing to help with everything from setup & takedown to booth sitting. Many smiling faces and the people running it were extremely helpful and nice.
Setup was easy, drive in and set up. Unfortunately I had 2D art and it did not sell. I checked with the other painters and photographers and none said they did much, if anything. Crowds were great during all three days. Crafts were selling the best. One potter had a buying line at his booth most of the three days. This crowd was after crafts only and there were many excellent ones there.

I enjoyed myself immensely, talking with people and other vendors and seeing all the wonderful crafts. It was a very friendly show.

Posted by: Carole (CZ) Williams | 11/07/2014 at 05:47 PM

Show Name: Bella Vista Arts and Craft Festival
City and State: Bella Vista, AR
Your Medium: 2D mixed media
Year you most recently exhibited at this Show: 2012
Your Estimated Sales at this Show: $501-$2000
Number of Years You have Exhibited in this Show: 3-5 times
Attendance: (1 is poor, 5 is great) 4
Location: 4
Facilities: 4
Ease of Participating: 4
Sales: 4
Overall: 4
Booth Fee vs. Your Sales Ratio: Good
Estimated Attendance: 10,001-50,000 people

Good Things about this Art Fair: Attentive staff always at your call. Always greatly attended with plenty of people willing to spend. Weather normally cooperates.

Bad Things about this Art Fair: Sometimes the planning committee does not place vendors where they should be, I.E. food/drink vendors mixed with art/craft vendors. Vendors selling the same product to closely grouped.

Advice to Other Artists Considering this Show:Apply early if you are new to this show as it fills up early. Approx. 250 vendors and over half are repeats.

Posted by: Tim Self | 07/09/2013 at 10:23 PM

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