Some great feel good ideas!
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:01 PM, john_kennington <johnkennington@cox.net>wrote:
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> I've had several interesting things happen, or that I observed, at shows
> over the last two weekends. Fortunately all good things, no storms!
>
> I don't have a true blog, but I put this on a web page, since I have photos
> to go along with each.
>
> So to read this with the pictures, see:
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> http://johnkennington.net/shownotes.htm
>
> I was at the Estes Park Art Market in Colorado over Memorial Day. The show
> is in Bond Park, right in "downtown", which has been undergoing a major
> renovation. Along the edge of the road through the park which had been
> redone they placed large decorative boulders. Most of the booths were
> located along this road. They had very thoughtfully embedded large eyebolts
> in the boulders, for tying down tents, since you cannot stake into the brick
> pavers. A very good idea! And they also added quad electrical outlets near
> each boulder.
>
> Also at Estes Park, I won what was one of my best awards yet. A woman with
> two young girls was visiting the show, and as a lesson for her kids in art
> appreciation was having them "judge" the artists. They had made up there own
> ribbons before arriving, and then after going through the whole show
> presented the ribbons to the artists the girls liked best. I won their "Good
> Job" ribbon award! This is an award I am quite proud of.
>
> This past weekend I was at Art in the Park in Columbia, Missouri. The temps
> were in the mid to high 90s, so everyone was suffering. On both Saturday and
> Sunday afternoons the volunteers delivered frozen washcloths, infused with
> lemon grass, to each artist to help them cool down. Just like the wash
> clothes you get in first class on an airplane, except frozen instead of hot.
> That was a very nice touch!
>
> Finally, at Columbia you could not drive on the grass, so you had to dolly
> everything. But, they had a whole fleet of golf carts and ATVs, many with
> large trailers, available during both setup and breakdown. And enough of
> them to realistically help everyone who wanted help. You may have had to
> wait a few minutes for one to be available, but it was a major time and back
> saver, especially in the brutal heat and humidity.
>
> And one more thing, nothing to do directly with art shows. Columbia had the
> best balloon artist (and I do mean "artist") I have ever seen. He or she
> used two or three different colored balloons to create very realistic
> "sculptures". Here is one of his or her creations I saw walking by.
>
> John Kennington
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*Michael*
ChristopherMichael.com
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