Art in the Park, Plymouth, Michigan

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="05bfd5a3.jpg"> <div> <B>Art in the Park, Plymouth, Michigan</B></div> <div> <B>347-LOVE-ART  (347-568-3278)   Toll Free 1-877-512-3333</B><B>    Email: </B><A HREF="mailto:mike@mikealbin.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:mike@mikealbin.com"><U><B>mike@mikealbin.com</B></U></A></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="05cd2043.jpg"> <bR> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mike Albin.Com "><U>Mike Albin.Com </U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="wd.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Web design"><U>Web design</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="ma.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Marketing Articles"><U>Marketing Articles</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="sr.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Show Reviews"><U>Show Reviews</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="mt.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Marketing Tools"><U>Marketing Tools</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="l.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U>Links</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#777777" TEXT="#080000"> <div> Art in the Park, Plymouth, Michigan</div> <div> July 9-11 2004 Art in the Park, Plymouth, Michigan. Contact: Dianne Quinn, 51220 Northview, Plymouth, Mi. 48170, 734-454-1314. web: www.artintheparkinc.com </div> <div> This show is Downtown Plymouth which is a high income suburb of Detroit. It’s a well established show that ranks in the top 100 of SA. The booth space fee here is $450.00 and with 460 artists we were expecting a real fine art show. </div> <div> Set-up starts at 10:30 pm on Thursday night or early Friday morning. We chose to set-up late Thursday because we hate early morning set-ups. The staff here is very friendly and very well organized. You can tell they have been doing this for awhile and are quite good at it. Security officers were everywhere and highly visible. Booth spaces were ten feet wide but with an extra few inches in between so you were not so crowded together. There was plenty of room for storage behind booths. </div> <div> The quality of artwork at this show ranges from very fine art to flea market buy/sell. Of the 460 artists here only 100 or so would be considered fine art. </div> <div> I spoke with three veteran artists that had done this show anywhere from six to ten years. They all said sales this year was way down from previous years. In fact “worst year ever” was the quote from all three. Sales for us were not good at all, only two sales all weekend and both of them were on Sunday. The major problem was there were just not enough high end buyers to go around. For what ever reason this year they did not show up. A painter doing the show for the first time did about half an average show for her and will not return. A wood worker doing the show for the first time did well enough that he ! will return. A photographer doing the show for the first time did very poorly and will not return. A sculptor only sold two pieces on Sunday for the entire weekend and probably will not return. </div> <div> There were a lot of first time artists here and everyone I spoke with gave very low marks to the quality of art here.</div> <div> This is one of those shows that I am not too sure about. Do we consider ourselves lucky to have gotten the two sales we did or was this a bad year for this show and we’d do better next year? 1400 miles is a lot to drive for a show we’re not sure about! </div> <div> My wife is saying “no way, never again” and as usual I should probably listen to her! </div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>