Comments on: Omaha Summer Art Festival is the Most. . . http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/omaha-summer-art-festival-is-the-most Art, Animals, and the Creative Experience Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:24:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: MonaMajorowicz http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/omaha-summer-art-festival-is-the-most#comment-6446 MonaMajorowicz Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:58:32 +0000 http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/omaha-summer-art-festival-is-the-most#comment-6446 Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment. Also thank you for putting up with all the inconveniences having the event downtown brings. Personally I prefer to be on grass whenever possible. The tents are more secure when staked and it is cooler than sitting on pavement. My guess is that having the event downtown is financially a good move. I mean it brings in 60,000-80,000 people to that part of the city. While I imagine this is huge pain for many who work there, having that many people spending money on lunches and shopping has got to be greatly beneficial to many (though I'm sure not all) of the business's in the area. Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment. Also thank you for putting up with all the inconveniences having the event downtown brings.

Personally I prefer to be on grass whenever possible. The tents are more secure when staked and it is cooler than sitting on pavement. My guess is that having the event downtown is financially a good move. I mean it brings in 60,000-80,000 people to that part of the city. While I imagine this is huge pain for many who work there, having that many people spending money on lunches and shopping has got to be greatly beneficial to many (though I’m sure not all) of the business’s in the area.

]]> By: downtown worker http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/omaha-summer-art-festival-is-the-most#comment-6431 downtown worker Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:37:43 +0000 http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/omaha-summer-art-festival-is-the-most#comment-6431 As nice as this event is for the people that like outdoor entertainment, it's not as wonderful for the downtown workers in and around the Gene Leahy Mall in the office buildings. Starting as early as Thursday night, streets are being blocked off and changed from one-way to two-way streets. I saw a couple of near misses because drivers are confused. I wouldn't want to be in the office building near 13th & Farnam with the new-age band playing loud music Friday afternoon. At least the area looked clean on Monday morning. This event has gotten so large it's time to move it to a new location. The Santa Lucia festival also used to block off the same streets but they moved to the waterfront where the city has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars developing and promoting. Parking is less than adequate in the current area. It doesn't seem to make any logical sense yet the city public works department seems to encourage the event to continue. As nice as this event is for the people that like outdoor entertainment, it’s not as wonderful for the downtown workers in and around the Gene Leahy Mall in the office buildings. Starting as early as Thursday night, streets are being blocked off and changed from one-way to two-way streets. I saw a couple of near misses because drivers are confused. I wouldn’t want to be in the office building near 13th & Farnam with the new-age band playing loud music Friday afternoon. At least the area looked clean on Monday morning. This event has gotten so large it’s time to move it to a new location. The Santa Lucia festival also used to block off the same streets but they moved to the waterfront where the city has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars developing and promoting. Parking is less than adequate in the current area. It doesn’t seem to make any logical sense yet the city public works department seems to encourage the event to continue.

]]> By: MonaMajorowicz http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/omaha-summer-art-festival-is-the-most#comment-620 MonaMajorowicz Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:16:27 +0000 http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/omaha-summer-art-festival-is-the-most#comment-620 Hello Angela! We made enough to still make it worth the trip. I have the upcoming weekend off but then have several back to back events which means of course working hard to replace lost stock. Most years we may only get rained out of one or two but recently it has gotten more common. In fact in the first 5 years or so we never had any trouble with getting rained out. This was good because we could learn how to do an event properly (like how much weight and how to stake down a tent) before we ran into trouble. Nothing worries me more than a newbie neighbors who uses inadequate methods to weight down a tent. I would think that artfair list is quite handy. I have no real idea about elsewhere but around the 5 state area here a good event booth fee generally runs between $200-$400. Omaha was $325 not including the jury fee. Hello Angela! We made enough to still make it worth the trip. I have the upcoming weekend off but then have several back to back events which means of course working hard to replace lost stock.

Most years we may only get rained out of one or two but recently it has gotten more common. In fact in the first 5 years or so we never had any trouble with getting rained out. This was good because we could learn how to do an event properly (like how much weight and how to stake down a tent) before we ran into trouble. Nothing worries me more than a newbie neighbors who uses inadequate methods to weight down a tent.

I would think that artfair list is quite handy. I have no real idea about elsewhere but around the 5 state area here a good event booth fee generally runs between $200-$400. Omaha was $325 not including the jury fee.

]]> By: Angela Finney http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/omaha-summer-art-festival-is-the-most#comment-619 Angela Finney Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:15:57 +0000 http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/omaha-summer-art-festival-is-the-most#comment-619 Very interesting! Wish they were all like that for you. I hope you still made a decent amount even if not what you expected. Looking forward to hearing about what happened that put the emergency plan into effect. Glad you are back home safe and hope you have gotten some rest. Our state arts council has a nice list of art fairs on it's site, I couldn't believe the booth fees at some of the better ones -- they should be nice! I have not gone to them in recent years like I used to -- country life has slowly made me more of a hermit -- will have to work on that. I used to admire and envy everyone in them when I did go -- your behind the scenes commentary really puts it into perspective. Besides driving long distances (though there are many fairs in the state, so who knows) I think I would really be afraid of those rain storms --- cannot imagine how one recovers from any kind of water or wind disaster -- and even with some precautions, seems sort of like a luck thing whether an eventer gets through it in one piece. My hat is off to you. Angela Very interesting! Wish they were all like that for you. I hope you still made a decent amount even if not what you expected. Looking forward to hearing about what happened that put the emergency plan into effect. Glad you are back home safe and hope you have gotten some rest.

Our state arts council has a nice list of art fairs on it’s site, I couldn’t believe the booth fees at some of the better ones — they should be nice!
I have not gone to them in recent years like I used to — country life has slowly made me more of a hermit — will have to work on that. I used to admire and envy everyone in them when I did go — your behind the scenes commentary really puts it into perspective. Besides driving long distances (though there are many fairs in the state, so who knows) I think I would really be afraid of those rain storms — cannot imagine how one recovers from any kind of water or wind disaster — and even with some precautions, seems sort of like a luck thing whether an eventer gets through it in one piece. My hat is off to you.
Angela

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