[Jewelry making - Article 00552] - Re: [Orchid] [Call to Atists] Vendors for music festival

[R . E . Rourke]

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    OK.. 

    I am a jeweler that selects which shows I have ever personally sold
    my work. I hate shows in general unless they are indoor venues with
    high security, and within two or three hundred miles tops..that's my
    opinion and right.. However, I find the International Master and
    Slave Convention/"show" rather amusing and a good indoor venue-
    though the music is usually a distraction. 

    Your book is wrong on the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
    statistics. Whomever told you there are 52 artists must have been
    blind to the other hundred plus..and in some years -now past- there
    were four areas of vendors including an area known as Congo square
    which alone hosts at least 125 if not more Afro-Caribbean
    vendors..and is separate from the artisan and crafts people's areas.
    there is a juried segment of the show that is limited, but is not
    representative of the whole in any way.. 

    . It was 45 bucks a head this year per day to get in at the gate
    unless one bought tickets, or the 600 dollar passes, two weeks prior
    to the fest..I was there ( because a friend of mine - a West Coast
    located, nationally known musician is one of my best friends and got
    me in on a musicians pass)..were you?? Doubting it. In fact all of
    your book's info on the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage festival is
    wrong..don't believe me..? fine- go to NOLA.com and look at the
    Times Picayune and its reporting of the crowds numbers..100,000 can
    turn up on a Sunday, and Saturday easily..some years have exceeded
    those numbers..this year the cost was so high many boycotted it..I
    know plenty about the two festivals I referred to. Most assuredly
    more than a book, as I have been there as an artist, a preform er and
    worked for jazz and heritage foundation in various capacities over
    almost 40 years... 

    Anyway moving on to your next venomous point: 

    I am not a breeder, and don't choose art show circuit as a viable way
    to do business and still make jewelry, or see it as even remotely
    compatible with raising young kids if i were to have them, but was a
    Montessori teacher, before teaching at the graduate an Post graduate
    university levels as part of my academic career which preceded- and
    at the end intertwined with goldsmithing, custom jewelry work, then
    onto consulting Re: the jewelry industry, gem trade, and both
    corporate and small business start-ups as well as VC work in an
    applied anthropology capacity. I know about trade shows, music
    venues, industry conventioneering, and international opportunities
    for exchange in one form or another that culminate in a "show" of
    some sort with sellers of all sorts of wares in price tiers from
    people looking for something to do on a sunday afternoon, to major
    business orders that support large company's a fiscal year's
    projections..there are more than one type of "show circuit" and more
    than one book on any of them... and I know what children require to
    thrive. 

    ..I know all about, "the circuit"/ your circuit without having to
    refer to a book as i have vast experience with shows on various
    levels from organization and promotion, production, and as a seller
    and not limited to the jewelry industry or jewelry /art specific
    shows.. 

    The time involved, the costs, logistics in particular, proximity to
    one's residence, etc., lead me to advise only a handful of clients
    --without kids or pets- to engage in or even entertain the
    possibilities of going the circuit route or just selecting a few
    choice shows close to their residences due to the expense of booth
    construction, event staffing, breakdown/setup fees, insurance,
    display and packaging solutions, freight handling etc., to name a
    few of the expenses that make a successful venture or not, in
    addition to the fees required for entry, If someone or a group has a
    brand, or large production set-up then it makes sense otherwise i
    usually advise MY clients against it as they are in general, small
    scale business people or just starting to branch out from local
    venues..so choosing wisely is at the root of the recommendation(s) to
    those groups of people. Corporate clients are another matter
    entirely. Since you do not know me, how you can presume so much is
    simply... what's the word... astounding! 

    OK..Belle Cher festival: have you been? 

    it is growing and emerging with the southern jewelry and arts
    triangle in the mountains, and the college town and progressive
    nature of Asheville, which in 2006 was reported in Kiplingers,
    Business week, Network world, AP newspapers, and real estate related
    publications as "the new Sedona", if you know what that implies, then
    you may have a clue about the changes that have taken place and
    continue to take place there. Oh, again your figures in your book,
    don't match the figures reported by jewelers and other friends and
    acquaintances that either work for the festival, or sell there, or
    preform there, nor what i have observed..... again. I actually
    attended many times 

    Equally, i have beucoup experience with show artists..not "west
    coast show artists" but people that sell their art at various venues.
    that is why I stated the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, and
    Belle Cher in Asheville the DC show,, and would also add Festival
    Acadiens in Lafayette La- which is an international arts event as
    worthy of the postage for an admissions prospectus.. 

    Further, your belief that one must be a "west coast show artist" to
    know anything about selling, marketing, alternatives based on
    experiences spanning many areas over many years in many arts genres
    is not only elitist, in the worst way, but divisive in terms of us
    and them mentalities, regarding which ocean one lives closest too and
    from that distinction comes presumptions that divide people into
    imagined lesser groups, of which "yours" is viewed as clearly
    superior..please!! 
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