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SOAPMAKING101 CO-OPS/FAST BUYS Cold Process
ADDITIVES CRAFT SHOWS |
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A juried show is one in which you must send in slides or photos of your work to be viewed by a "jury". The jury can be a few independent artist, gallery owners, etc, or just the promoter and their staff. Acceptance or rejection into this show is strictly based on these slides/photos. It works this way. You get the application and it says you need 3-5 slides/or photos of your work, many also want a shot of your booth set-up. What this process is suppose to do, is weed out inferior work, buy & sell, and large product house work. Some craft shows want strictly high end crafts, some do not want anything that looks like country. Some shows are also adding a slide of you at work. A shot making your product. You send the slides, application and description page with a jury fee check (this has been debated for years by crafters) and then wait while they look at everyone's slides. Then you get your notice. Hint: Rejection notices always go out first. Take note of the notification dates, and expect a response after that date. I do many juried shows and a few unjuried shows. On the average I do better at the juried shows. If you are rejected, try again the following year. In some shows the jury changes every year. Also change your slides around. I have been rejected from shows one year and accepted the next year. Is a Juried Craft Show better? When I did Ceramic Art, YES. I only did juried shows, because
unjuried shows let in all types of work and did not draw my clientele.
Now that I sell soaps, everyone is my customer base. BUT,
unjuried shows usually do not have the money to do advertising.
Unjuried shows are very cheap to do and you can make a lot of money.
Juried shows are usually more money and draw a knowledgeable craft
buyer and should do advertising (Newspaper, radio, large When someone is interested in starting craft show selling, I always suggest, local shows. These are usually unjuried, the local people know about them, and are inexpensive. Hope this helps |
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