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Fletcher Dean

Medium: Photography
Year you most recently exhibited at this Show: 2019
Your Estimated Sales at this Show: $501 - $2,000
Price Range of your Work: $20 - $550
Number of Years You have Exhibited in this Show:
1st time
Number of Years You have been doing Art Fairs overall: 3-5 years
Attendance: (1 is poor, 5 is great) 2
Location: 2
Facilities: 2
Ease of Participating: 2
Sales: 1
Overall: 1
Booth Fee vs. Your Sales Ratio: Poor
Estimated Attendance: 501 - 10,000 people

Good Things about this Art Fair:
Low booth fees.

What could this Art Fair have done better?:
They could have done a better job in several ways:
* Been honest that this was a craft & art show and
not an art show as advertised.
* Policed load-in area as promised. Vehicles were
parked - unattended - for hours.
* Provided booth sitting and water.

Advice to Other Artists Considering this Show:
Be aware that this - despite the name - this is mostly a craft show. Think machine-cut acrylic magnets, bean-filled eye mask, baby bonnets and white boards painted with "life's a beach."

Load in is awful. Charlevoix is tight parking and driving anyway but the organizers make it worse by coning off the load-in areas so tight you can't get in without stopping in the middle of the street, getting out and moving cones.

Be aware as well that the location is on a terraced park so you're either going down steps or down a slope.

Philippe Laine

Medium: Fiber
Year you most recently exhibited at this Show: 2016
Your Estimated Sales at this Show: $501-$2000
Price Range of your Work: $25 to $200
Number of Years You have Exhibited in this Show: 1st time
Number of Years You have been doing Art Fairs overall: Forever...
Attendance: (1 is poor, 5 is great) 4
Location: 4
Facilities: 4
Ease of Participating: 1
Sales: 1
Overall: 2
Booth Fee vs. Your Sales Ratio: Poor
Estimated Attendance: 501-10,000 people

Good Things about this Art Fair:
Nice part of town. Nice staff

Bad Things about this Art Fair:
Nightmare to set up if you are not just near main road. Steps to go down if your booth if on grassy area

Too many buy/sell. Very few real artists.

All timers are getting best spaces, despite many are poor quality.

Advice to Other Artists Considering this Show: Don,t do this show in June and July, there is
another show in August that is fine art, hard to get in!!!!

I will apply next year for August.

See my blog on ArtFairInsiders.com for additional commentary on this Show:
Yes, please note that on my review

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