St. Petersburg Fine Arts Festival Reviews -

Medium: Painting
Year you most recently exhibited at this Show:
2023
Your Estimated Sales at this Show: $2001-$5000
Price Range of your Work: 100-1000
Number of Years You have Exhibited in this Show:
1st time
Number of Years You have been doing Art Fairs overall: 2-3 years
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: Great
Estimated Attendance: 501-10,000 people

Good Things about this Art Fair:
Load in was well orchestrated with organizers helping with road side parking. Located in downtown park with lots of attractions for residents and visitors.

Saturday was jammed. Local farmers market had thousands of people a block away. Weather on Sat was perfect.

Windy on Sunday and organizer left it up to artists if they wanted to leave early due to predicted high winds. Which never became an issue.

What could this Art Fair have done better?:
Parking is very tough with a lot of things going on. Prepare to feed a meter or walk a mile.

Advertise. The city had a marathon run scheduled which closed off the main street around the park where the festival was held so this made Sunday a bit tougher. Not sure if the organizer knew this

Advice to Other Artists Considering this Show:
This was my first show through Paragon and at this event. Neighbor artists were nice and helpful.

Crowd was good. My sales as a painter showing abstract and landscape was good. Guy across from me did resin pours and said he did 10k sales.

Posted by: Michael Pintar | 03/04/2023 at 10:07 AM

Medium: Jewelry
Year you most recently exhibited at this Show: 2018
Your Estimated Sales at this Show:
$2,001 - $5,000
Price Range of your Work: $30 - $300
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:
The show was well organized, and the overall quality of the work shown was very, very good.

There was a decent turnout, and a good mix of people. The location in downtown St. Pete was ideal.

What could this Art Fair have done better?:
Parking for the vendors appeared to be in the next county (only a mild exaggeration).
That added to the need to dolly in and out of the venue made it a bit inconvenient.

But still a good show.

Advice to Other Artists Considering this Show:
Bring Water. You're going to sweat dollying in and out.

Additional Commentary on this Show:
This show was galaxies better than the awful St Pete Beach Oktoberfest that Paragon ran last fall. My confidence in Paragon as a promoter has been renewed.

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Posted by: Larry Hering | 03/06/2019 at 04:52 PM

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