Was anyone else disappointed with The One of a Kind Show this year? Through all those rows and rows of vendors, I only saw two that excited me.
Yes, there were plenty of people that I liked and even loved, but I had seen them in previous years. Is there a lack of depth on the unique/hand-made gift market? Or has the show become so self-generating that it doesn’t care to drop prices and make exceptions in order to let new crafters and artists breakthrough?
And was The Artist Project a joke? Seriously, how much did they make those poor people pay to sit on an empty(ish) floor all weekend? There was so much room and so much potential. Boo! to the jury for having such a limited vision.
Charge less. Include more.
Even with the downturn in the economy, the One of a Kind floor was jumping. There were hardly any booths that I walked by in which a sale wasn’t being made. Credit card slips were being singed right and left.
A show calling itself “The Artist Project” can do better to capitalize on that crowd.
Customers were buying. I just wonder if they were as wowed and excited as they could have been.
Tags: Art by Ms. SP
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It looks like there is going to be at least one more massive art show in Chicago before the year is through. This weekend, the Flat Iron Artists’ Association puts on its Holiday smART show.