View from a vineyard
Jul. 7th, 2018 06:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offcntrOriginally, it was Art in the Vineyard, a combination art fair and wine-tasting in at a local winery. After a few years of growth, it moved to a downtown park in Eugene to become Art and the Vineyard, with more art, more wine, live music, a kids' space, valet bicycle parking...
I've never tried to get my own booth here; I'm already over-exposed in Eugene, what with Saturday Market, Holiday Market, Clay Fest. There just aren't enough different attendees here. Most of them know I'm always around town, so it's not worth my while to pay a premium for a booth that just advertises my (much more affordable) Saturday Market booth.
That said, my pottery co-op, Club Mud, is located at the Maude Kerns Art Center, sponsor and beneficiary of the event, so they invite us to set up a group booth, for a fee plus commission, and it's generally worth the effort, and the workshift or two, to participate.
This year participations was up, fourteen of us showing, so all the sales shifts were covered. Which left me the fun job--demo shift Friday evening, throwing pots on a kick wheel for an audience that included lots of kids, a fair number of teens and adults, and at least two security guys who stopped every time they went by to see what I was making this time.
Being a lovely day, I rode down to the show on my trike, hauling tools and 25 lbs. of clay, that I just kept smooshing down and reusing, then home again at the end of the day. Good exercise, but my left (wheel-kicking) leg let me know in no uncertain terms I'd overdone it at bedtime. Worst charley horse ever.
I've never tried to get my own booth here; I'm already over-exposed in Eugene, what with Saturday Market, Holiday Market, Clay Fest. There just aren't enough different attendees here. Most of them know I'm always around town, so it's not worth my while to pay a premium for a booth that just advertises my (much more affordable) Saturday Market booth.
That said, my pottery co-op, Club Mud, is located at the Maude Kerns Art Center, sponsor and beneficiary of the event, so they invite us to set up a group booth, for a fee plus commission, and it's generally worth the effort, and the workshift or two, to participate.
This year participations was up, fourteen of us showing, so all the sales shifts were covered. Which left me the fun job--demo shift Friday evening, throwing pots on a kick wheel for an audience that included lots of kids, a fair number of teens and adults, and at least two security guys who stopped every time they went by to see what I was making this time.
Being a lovely day, I rode down to the show on my trike, hauling tools and 25 lbs. of clay, that I just kept smooshing down and reusing, then home again at the end of the day. Good exercise, but my left (wheel-kicking) leg let me know in no uncertain terms I'd overdone it at bedtime. Worst charley horse ever.