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Art Fair: Salem Art Fair & Festival
Location: Salem, Oregon
Held in Bush's Pasture Park
Dates: Usually held in the middle of July
Presented By: Salem Art Association
Founded: 1949
Show Type: Outdoor
Expected Attendance: 55,000 people
Exhibiting Artists: 200
Artist Application Deadline: Usually the beginning of June
Jury Fee: $50
Booth Fee: $550 - $1,275
Web site: www.salemart.org
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Medium: Digital Art
Year you most recently exhibited at this Show:
2018
Your Estimated Sales at this Show: $5,001 - $10,000
Price Range of your Work: $25 - $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: 5
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:
Easy show to participate in. It is a community event and the people turn out for it.
What could this Art Fair have done better?:
Music from stage, located down the hill from my booth, was occasionally loud. It did make communicating with customers difficult at times.
There was no communication about what time booth sitters would arrive to relieve us.
Advice to Other Artists Considering this Show:
This is a solid show, especially if you can tandem it with Bellevue and/or other Pacific NW shows. Next year is their 70th anniversary.
Additional Commentary on this Show:
Note that parking is about 1/2 mile from show, but you can drive in each morning. Sunday foot traffic was surprisingly light this year compared to other years.
Forecast was set for 94 degrees, which may have kept some folk away.
Posted by: Joey Welsh | 08/13/2018 at 04:52 PM
Medium: Jewelry
Year you most recently exhibited at this Show: 2017
Your Estimated Sales at this Show: $5,001 - $10,000
Price Range of your Work: $38 - $2,000
Number of Years You have Exhibited in this Show:
5-10 times
Number of Years You have been doing Art Fairs overall: Forever...
Attendance: (1 is poor, 5 is great) 4
Location: 4
Facilities: 5
Ease of Participating: 5
Sales: 4
Overall: 4
Booth Fee vs. Your Sales Ratio: Good
Estimated Attendance: 10,001 - 50,000 people
Good Things about this Art Fair:
One of my top shows! Omelet and pancake breakfast on Saturday and Sunday! Easy load, fairly easy load out.
What could this Art Fair have done better?:
Layout on the east side near the music and at the far end of each row on the east have lower number of shoppers.
Not the best food vendors.
Booth map for artist to review possible locations is hard to figure out. It need serious revision!
Advice to Other Artists Considering this Show:
Gate fee is charged. Loud music on the east side.
Can be hot, lots of trees for shade but they drop moss, dirty and leaves on your tent top. Some booths are in the blazing sun.
Refer to booth map when accepted. Some spaces have gaps as booths weave in and out of the trees in some areas giving a tiny corner. It a good show.
Posted by: Robbie Curnow | 02/27/2018 at 01:36 PM