Poster2008
Fourteen years ago I exhibited at my first Art Fair ... it was the Bucktown Arts Fest...I had no tent and sold my hand painted tile magnets and painted mirrors (displaying the mirrors on an upended futon frame)...I managed to dig up the photo below. It was great fun and of course a huge ego boost to be selling my art work! This was also the year that Rich & I bought our house in Bucktown which happened to be a 2 minute stroll from the art fair. Little did I know how that show would change my life. I made so many great friends and started relationships with so many people who have collected my work over the years. Another highlight was in 1999, I did the poster design for the art fair and got as close as I've ever come to selling out my booth.
Now it's 2008 and time for a change, I will miss this very unique show and community event and I'm sure I will be back at some point but it was time to try something new. The art fair pundits say you should mix it up, you can saturate your market and karmic-ly it's probably good to open up a space for a new artist to come in. (Sharon Sears will be in my old spot #33, I should probably supply her with some cards in case anyone comes looking for me!)
So this weekend instead finding me at Bucktown, I hope you will make the trip up to Highland Park where I will be exhibiting at the Port Clinton Art Festival - this is rated as one of the top shows in the nation and I'm very excited to be exhibiting my work for the first time in this community. For those of you who do get to Bucktown, I have many wonderful and talented friends still exhibiting there...among them Laura Nugent who is coming up from Kansas City to do the show for the first time...(and I'm so glad to have her staying with us) I hope she can snag a poster for me - Amy Arnold designed them this year - I just love her work (soft sculpture: peepwool) and was thrilled to see it in 2d on the poster.
Okay...time to get to work...need to make that Port Clinton E-blast announcement! You'll find me in Booth #53!
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1995 - The year we moved to Bucktown & I started selling at Art Fairs.
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1999 I was the Bucktown Arts Fest Poster artist...I was 32 and Rich was in fact 33 in 1999. That was back when I wore cut-offs to the art fairs...you know a starving artist had to dress the part!