{"id":211,"date":"2010-02-09T14:42:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T19:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethwicker.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/?p=211"},"modified":"2010-02-09T14:42:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T19:42:51","slug":"show-report-florence-artsfest-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/bethwicker\/2010\/02\/09\/show-report-florence-artsfest-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Show Report – Florence ArtsFest 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was my second year participating in the annual Florence ArtsFest, put on by the Florence Regional Arts Alliance in Florence, SC. Last year was a pretty good show, with two floors of artists, probably 30+ in all; an excellent opening reception very well attended; good if not great traffic with people who were actually buying, and not just bottom fishing.<\/p>\n

This year was a total bomb. No signs outside, no signs on the street, next to nothing in the local media, nothing on the internet… A number of people I know in Florence had no idea the event was even going on.<\/p>\n

Less than half the artists from last year – 16 this year – all on one floor with plenty of room left over, so it looked rather lost. Less than half the people at the opening, and unlike last year they weren’t buying. I saw customers who bought my high end pieces last year leaving with nothing – just partied and left. <\/p>\n

We opened Thursday night this year – last year it was Friday night. We had open hours on Friday, Saturday and Sunday this year. Last year it was just Friday night and Saturday. They had a total of 10 buyers for the entire show all day Friday… 10!!! If we had 10 people come through on Sunday I would be amazed. <\/p>\n

Florence is a good sized city, with over 133,000 people. This fall I did a one day show in Great Falls, SC (see earlier blog post), which has less than 5,000 people. I sold more in one day in Great Falls than I did in four days in Florence. Now that is just sad!<\/p>\n

No one did well, and there were some folks who sold nothing in all four days. In all a quite dismal experience. The upside is that I did have a number of people who are interested in my classes that I teach, so hopefully that will turn out well.<\/p>\n

Since I often get asked to show pictures of the shows I do, here are photos of the various booths that were there. Sorry I have misplaced my program and can’t identify all the artists…. <\/p>\n

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$\"Shot$ <\/a><\/dt>\n

Shot of my booth<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

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$\"Barbara$ <\/a><\/dt>\n

\nBarbara Mellen – The Earring Lady – dichroic glass<\/p>\n

$\"Strung$ <\/a><\/dt>\n

\nStrung beaded jewelry.<\/p>\n

$\"Glenda$ <\/a><\/dt>\n

\nGlenda Calder, more dichroic glass jewelry<\/p>\n

$\"Marion$ <\/a><\/dt>\n

\nMarion Berry, jewelry, prints, photos, note cards, etc.<\/p>\n

$\"Jim$ <\/a><\/dt>\n

\nJim and Sally Sloutherland, jewelry, photos, notecards, etc.<\/p>\n

$\"One$ <\/a><\/dt>\n

\nOne of the painters who had cool t-shirts.<\/p>\n

$\"Another$ <\/a><\/dt>\n

\nAnother painter<\/p>\n

$\"Very$ <\/a><\/dt>\n

\nVery cool decorative folk art sort of paintings….<\/p>\n

$\"Colleen$ <\/a><\/dt>\n

\nColleen Appleton-Critcher, Painter<\/p>\n

$\"Greg's$ <\/a><\/dt>\n

$\"Op$ <\/a><\/dt>\n

\nOp Art – glass etched and painted<\/p>\n

$\"Photographer\"$ <\/a><\/dt>\n

\nPhotographer<\/p>\n

$\"Douglas$ <\/a><\/dt>\n

\nDouglas Gray, potter<\/p>\n

$\"Tim$ <\/a><\/dt>\n

\nTim Green, painter<\/p>\n

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