eden@sover.net on sun 29 nov 98
Here is a nice blurb about the Lincoln Center ACAC show sent me by a fair
pal:
>AMERICAN CRAFTS FESTIVAL / LINCOLN
>CENTRE
>CONTACT: Paul Weingarten, ACAC, PO box 650
>Monclair, NJ 07042. USA
>
>Tel 201 746 0091 fAX 201 509 7739
>
>WEATHER: 212 315 2705
>
>TAX INFO: 800 972 1233
>
>
>This show runs for two week ends at the Lincoln
>Centre for the performing arts. I did this show as
>the statistics on sales looked amazing. Average
>takings in 96 appeared to be around $1600 over the
>4 day period. Well you know the one about, lies
>dam lies and statistics. Money was certainly there
>and being taken but mainly by jewelers despite
>there being lots of them there. Not much came my
>way .
>
>There is a 5% commission charge payable to the
>show organizers plus the space fee of around $500.
>However if you make things which can be
>spontaneously purchased, especially jewelry it may
>well be worth while.
>
>For me my major sale was to a very lively elderly
>lady. Being in her seventies her only company was
>her pet cat. On this occasion she purchased a large
>glass bowl for her companion to sleep in. Only in
>new York I thought....
>
Eleanora Eden 802 869-2003
Paradise Hill
Bellows Falls, VT 05101 eden@sover.net
"Can love, through the exercise of art, overcome death?" ---SalmanRushdie
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