This was a first for me – I rented a space at Macon’s Arts & Crafts Festival, setup a tent, and displayed and sold prints of my work. My friend & pro photog Michael Williams shared the space with me and helped run the booth. We were both rookies at selling art in the festival circuit but at the end of the weekend we had both made a decent profit. It was a success!
Saturday’s weather was incredible – sunny and temps in the 70s. Sunday had a forcast for thunderstorms and we were concerned that our tent wouldn’t hold up. So we took all our art work home for the night and wrapped our tent up in tarps. We had to use duct tape to hold the tarps in place so our tent looked pretty sad.
Despite our not-so-fancy tent setup, we ended up winning an award from the Middle Georgia Art Association! It just goes to show that they were truly judging the merits of the art, not the way we were displaying it.
On Sunday, my wife was working so I had to bring my 3-year-old with me to the booth. I didn’t expect him to last long and Michael was ready to cover for me. However, he behaved surprisingly well and spent over 7 hours there with me! He even helped to make a few sales.
Below are a few of the images Michael Williams and I had for sale at the Mulberry Street Arts & Crafts Festival:
Looks great!! glad you guys did it and got your name out there more.More people need to know about you both!!
It was a lot of fun William. I hope we do again next year. I went to the insurance company yesterday to take the agency owner his Macon prints, and he reiterated that he would like to loan us his tent next year. I told him we’d think about it! I told him I had developed a nostalgic attachment to the one we borrowed and then there is the money we have invested in blue tarps… LOL