[Jewelry making - Article 00230] - Re: [Orchid] Experience with the Rosen show

[Suzanne Wade]

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    I interviewed Wendy Rosen last spring when I wrote an article about
    craft shows as a market for designer jewelry for Colored Stone
    magazine. (You can read the entire article in Ganoksin's archives at
    http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/better-crafts-show.htm.)
    Unlike most shows, the Buyers' Market "grandfathers" artists who have
    exhibited at the show before. They do this because Wendy believes
    artists need consistency to establish their business, and she
    believes waiting on tenterhooks each year to see if you jury into a
    show you've done for years is unfair to the artist, and hurts their
    business. When vacancies open up, new artists are juried in. 

    I encourage you to check out her comments on this in the Colored
    Stone article -- I think it will answer your question. While her
    approach does limit the number of new artists that appear in the
    show each year, she has a valid point about the difficulty for the
    artist of having to start each year fresh. Whether it's better than
    the traditional jury system, I'll let you and the artists who do
    exhibit at the show be the judges. 

Suzanne

Suzanne Wade
Writer/Editor
suzanne AT rswade.net
(508) 339-7366
Fax: (928) 563-8255
www.rswade.net

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