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In the Book
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Should I Quit My Day Job? Or: Hello, Dali!
What It Takes to Make It On the Art Show Circuit
Chapter 2: The Right Art Stuff
What Sells—and Doesn’t—at Art Festivals
Chapter 3: Money Matters (Of Course It Does!)
Understanding How Art Festival Finances Work
Chapter 4: This is Why I Went to Art School?
The Psychology of Art Festivals
Chapter 5: Sliding Into First (or Two Hundredth)
A Brief Course in Art Festival Applications
Chapter 6: How to Tell a Canopy from a Canape
What You Will Need to Exhibit
Chapter 7: Is Van White Really an Oil Paint Color?
Building the Perfect Vehicle for Art Festivals
Chapter 8: The Fleabag Hotel Welcomes You
Staying and Paying on the Road
Chapter 9: Plan Your Trip; Don’t Trip On Your Plan
Creating a Workable Festival Schedule
Chapter 10: Sentenced to Hard Labor, Once a Week
Setting Up Your Display at a Festival
Chapter 11: Rain, Rain, Go Anywhere But Here
Weather or Not, The Art Show Must Go On
Chapter 12: Sometimes Less Really IS More
Evaluating Income and Costs at Festivals
Chapter 13: The Price Isn’t Always Right
Selling Your Work at Art Festivals
Chapter 14: Solomon’s Judgment, or
You Can’t Have It Wholesale
Understanding the Art Festival Customer
Chapter 15: Stifling the Urge to Kill
Art Festivals and Your Emotional Well Being
Chapter 16: Eat, Paint and Be Heavy
Staying Healthy on the Art Festival Circuit
Chapter 17: Is There Life After the Show?
Teardown and Creating Added Sales
