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Jan Brons

9 Years Ago

Art Market Advice Needed.

As the title says.

I have been talking with a friend about renting a few meter market stand on art markets. I am talking about market stands that you can hire on art art fairs, mostly on street. Not sure if that is done in the US but here in Europe it is fairly often done where maybe half of the audience is mostly people looking for a nice spent Sunday afternoon.

We both don't have direct experience with this and are also realists enough to know we are now not going to sell a lot.

So we need advice on what to offer. I mainly mean what to offer in sizes and frames, etc. I have a feeling that small size, greeting cards, is the best as the people are sitting on their wallets at the moment. I do like photos on acrylic on dibond and then minimum size 60*40 cm but also know that that is pretty expensive and maybe hard to sell due to the high price you need to ask to make a profit.

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I am thinking to print a couple of big images that I would like to hang in my own house but also try to sell them, this way it won't feel as a loss if it doesn't sell :-) I think that greeting card size should be the bulk. Am I right here?

Edit: I have also got advised to simply print images and use I-K-E-A frames to save money.

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Roy Erickson

9 Years Ago

IF you can find a local printer - sounds like not a bad idea - and it get's you out in the public eye. I have bought paintings, back in the day when I was purchasing and not creating so much, at weekend set ups in the US. I purchased paintings though, not photographs. I also think somewhere in the 36*40 cm range would do well. If you have scouted out what others are doing and how they are doing - what sizes - you'll be ahead of the game.

 

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