American Artisan 2007

<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>American Artisan</B><B> 2007</B></div> <div> <B>6260 N.W. 19 Street, Sunrise, Fl. 33313 Toll Free 1-877-512-3333    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="#DDDDDD" TEXT="#080000"> <div> June 15-17. American Artisan Art Festival, Centennial Park, Nashville, Tn. Contact: Nancy Saturn, 4231 Harding Pike, Nashville, Tn. 37205. Ph 615-298-4691 Email: info@american-artisan.com Space size: 10x10-10x20, Number of spaces: 170. Booth fee: $100.00-200.00 plus 15% commission on sales. The commissions go to Gilda's club, a cancer support group. </div> <div> This show is in a park setting with setup all day on Thursday. You can park right next to your booth for setting up and some booths have the added convenience of parking your trailer behind your booth all weekend. We like that, it makes breaking down sooo easy! There are discounts at a Holiday Inn across the street from the show so you can park your car all weekend and walk to the show. Plenty of great restaurants are also with walking distance. </div> <div> For three days the weather was brutally hot, some of the artists that have been doing this show for years said crowds were a little down from previous years, with temps in the 90's all three days. Well at least it didn't rain! This is an invitational show and as long as the quality of your work stays high and you continue to make sales, you get invited back. This was our first time doing a show in Nashville so we didn't know how well we would do.</div> <div> Sales for us were slow, only two small pieces all weekend, our average sale was way down to $1000.00. We sold a few magnets and smaller reproductions and ended up with a total of $2500.00, way below average for us. We had a few people looking at larger pieces, hopefully they'll come back next year. We'll try one more time to see what happens here, we like to give a show two chances. </div> <div> As for the rest of the artists around us, a wood worker reported his best show ever, anywhere! A glass artist said he was down from previous years here but was still an above average show. A metal artist, first time here, said sales were below average for him also. I spoke with several jewelers, one selling low end work, the other selling high end work. Both reported above average sales. A fabric artist said sales were about average for her and a photographer reported slightly above average sales. </div> <div> There's a big party on Friday night at Director Nancy Saturn's house with an open bar and lots of great food. Nancy also runs the American Artisan Art Gallery in town and knows lots of art buyers. This is not the most crowded show we've ever been to by far but the people that do come, come to buy art. Only one artist I spoke with was unsure about returning, everyone else I spoke with said this is one of the shows they look forward to every year.</div> <div> Breakdown was a breeze with our trailer right behind our booth. We broke down a double booth in about one hour. We were motivated to get out of the 95 degree heat and into an air conditioned truck!</div> </td> </tr></table></body>