[Jewelry making - Article 00115] - Re: [Orchid] Baltimore ACC experience

[Peggy Wilson]

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    I have never had the pleasure of being admitted as an artist into
    ACC or BMAC. I have, however attended each year for the past 7 as a
    buyer... I have had the priveledge of assisting a local gallery
    owner with her buying each year at these shows. 

    We would arrive at each show with a pretty aggressive plan of
    attack. We would know exactly which artists we needed to see from
    our existing inventory after a thorough analysis of what has been
    selling, price points, etc. We would know in which media we needed
    to find how many new artists, and would aggressively look for them.
    We would know how much we wanted to commit in orders to each artist.
    We always would really have to run to get every artist's order
    written in the 2-3 days we had to spend. 

    We, too, find the "personal shoppers'' to be a real pain, because
    these shows for us are serious business and these folks many times
    would keep us from being able to place an order while they dithered
    over a single purchase. 

    Overall, we have found that BMAC does not have the quality that this
    particular gallery was looking for. ACC does, but not like it did 5
    years ago. It is more and more of a challenge to find fresh work and
    well grounded, business like artists. The part I always found
    amazing was that this gallery owner always wrote a couple of extra
    orders in each media beyond what she needed, because of the amazing
    phenomenon of at least 3 or 4 artists who never fill their orders
    each year. 

    Just a little insight from the buyer's perspective 

Peggy Wilson
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