We've only done 2 shows so far, #3 is this weekend, so I'm not the giant mass of experience that many others here are. Our first show sounds very very similar to yours. $125 to get in and we only sold $30. There were lots and lots of people who talked about how they loved her work...and then they walked out and we never saw them agin.
This past weekend was very different. Much much smaller show (35 artists as opposed to the over 300 that were at Portland), it was only 4 hrs long, and this one was free. We still had a bunch of people come in and talked about how they loved her work, but this time some of them bought it. We got a total of $170 this time around. Not huge, but a definate improvement.
Each time you go out there you're making connections, you're getting your work seen, and you're learning. Just build on it.
--- In artshow_photo@yahoogroups.com, "aimeerochard" <aimeerochard@...> wrote:
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> Hey All,
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> Thanks again for the encouragement/advice before. My first show was this past weekend and it was both good and not-so-good. The latter being partly my own fault, but still. I sold nothing, but did have a good number of folks coming through my booth who had a lot of good things to say about my landscape photography.
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> I am taking the positiveness of the compliments and the interest (one guy brought his wife back to see a piece he may have bought, but didn't in the end) to heart to further realize that yes, my art is sellable.
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> I am taking the irritating side of not selling anything as a lesson to: a)Seek out cheaper festivals b)Try a different formula for selling my photos, and c)Seek out other means of selling for profit
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> I enjoyed being outside all day, it was nice to talk to so many strangers, have friends drop by, meet other artists, etc, but at the same time I don't know if it's for me entirely. We shall see. In your experience, is it typical that people enter your booth and don't even look at you or say hello? I just found it annoying that most of them came in and wouldn't even make eye contact, though they had things to say to each other about the photograph.
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> ANYWAY... :)
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> Overall I am taking the good, the bad and the ugly and running with it. We'll see where things go.
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> Cheers!
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