Here’s what you said:
• Staggered set up was:
A great idea 73.9%
Could use some work to make it better 15.9%
Didn’t effect me, I set up on Saturday 10.1%
• Setting up was so much nicer this year. Thank you
• The people in uniform did not take advice from
artists well. When there were openings, they
stalled letting artists in.
• Takedown access was difficult but complicated
because of the rain.
• I was in the group for 2:00 PM and it worked
exceptionally well for me. Unloading from the
street with artists already setting up in path to
the Monona Terrace is like dodging and
obstacle course. More important, with a clear
path I could unload quickly by myself and move
my van so others could have access. This has
my full support for the future
• Load in/Load out was:
Easy and pleasant 26.4%
What I expected 69.4%
Harder than I expected 4.2%
• Greeters and info booth were:
Pleasant and friendly 94.1%
Less than that 5.9%
• Barb is always a jem
• Sales: Much better than expected, but not best
I’ve ever had.
• Top Notch
• Sales were:
Best I’ve ever had here 21.4%
About what I expected 44.3%
Less than I expected 20.0%
Way less than I expected 14.3%
• Where you saw advertising:
• The mic 92.1, wisc TV, Isthmus
• Televison and the newspaper
• Channel 3 at least four times
• Did not personally, but understand that we had
some great TV and radio coverage...I always
send our mailing list of about 500, some came
out.
• It was mentioned on morning news.
• I like the postcards, and especially the image by
Joanne Hauser Warren, for this year’s show. Since I live quite a distance from Madison, I wasn’t aware of any other advertising.
• I heard some advertising on Public Radio. Saturday sales were excellent, Sunday sales just limped by. I do feel there is a different crowd on Saturday who are buyers. Sunday is more lookers.
• Heard from customers
• Facebook
• Would like to see some in the Milwaukee area.
• The picnic was:
A really fun time 91.5%
Too long 8.5%
Didn’t go
• Lines are to long to stay
• Enjoyed the presentation(s), but it gets late, and we are already tired.
• Bill was a riot!
• Did not attend
• Nice variety of things to eat. Would have liked
some raw veggies perhaps.
• The cememony was quite long considering the
hard hot day-maybe in the future you could
annouce the winners-they could stand and
annouce the next winner-have them all come up
at the end and get a hand. I was glad for all the
winners but really wanted to crawl into the beer
tank and never come back out. Couldn’t though
as I did need to drive home.
• I like doing this show because:
• It’s in Madison, sales are great, WAAC people
are the best!
• So many more people see your art
• It’s a July ritual by now, easy and familiar.Also
like the artist-run feeling.
• Except for the heat, its not that hard to do I can
catch a lot of costomers that wont come to my
shop 5.It’s a “feel good” thing, typically we
have better sales and we enjoy the artist
community here.
• All the artists and organizers are friendly and
helpful! The location is good. Good customers.
• Wow, great people who really care and good
attendance. Awesome work by many volunteers.
• Great traffic but mostly because it supports and
promotes the arts in Wisconsin.
• It is a good show
• It makes me proud to see so much good art made in Wisconsin
• The people running it are incredible and wonderful and I always do at least a decent amount of bizness.
• What can be done to improve this art fair?
• Too many customers not clear that we are a different show than On the Sq. and we are Wisc. artists.
• Closing down and getting out is still semidifficult
• Providing a central cheap or free source of bottled water or running water and ice.
• It’s a pretty good working machine...layout is lovely, if cramped...Saturday might be too long a day. We never or rarely sell to the farmers market crowd (just an observation). How about a reliable source of bad weather updates--we were spooked by the rumours of destruction circulating on Sunday afternoon. (Ed Note: The National Weather Service kept changing their forecast about every half-hour, which made it difficult to predict what was going to happen)
• Large banner at beginning of street that says
‘ART FAIR OFF THE SQUARE’
• Parking for larger vehicles (motor homes)
• We love the 3-year commitment, but it might introduce more variety and improve the show if we move to a 2-year jury cycle.
• Noticed that a number of the customers did not
understand that Art Off the Square is only Wisconsin artists. Maybe have bigger signs emphasizing that since once we told them they were excited to know that and purchase since they wanted to support Wisconsin
artists.
• Control tear downs better. We were done before many of the artists that just pulled up and parked and took the open spots.
• We still need to find a way to get the customers down Martin King Blvd to us.
• Make a “you have arrived” statement with “Feather flags” or some kind of “archway” banners located at the show entrance from the square and at the Wilson St. entrance. Artists should not have to pay a “space
penalty $$” for chairs and bins that do not stick out any further than neighboring booths, interrupt traffic flow or make for any safety problems. It gets very hot inside booths and customers prefer to visit and leaf through bins out where they can catch a breeze. Heat exhaustion is a factor to be considered.
• It was hard not having any storage space at all behind my booth. Even a couple of inches would be nice between booths.
• Hot coffee!!!!
• Our biggest problem is where to park our oversized truck and trailer. It needs to be close to booth so we can get artwork during show.
• People need to wait till everything is down till they pull in vehicles (take down especially). We were totally taken down and had to wait 45 minutes for double parked people to take apart their displays and tents to move vehicles and trailors. Rude. Need to be patient and follow courteous rules that help everyone. We did and for 2 years have been standing with
nowhere to go but stand around with a long drive ahead of us.
• I cannot think of a thing. My husband got very sick on Sunday with a G.I. problem. Some nice guys from down the next row helped me get my tent down as husband was too weak to assist. That is the kind of group we have here. Everyone helps everyone else. The booth next to us gave him gatorade and someone else a blanket. (Better today)
• Suggest that there will not be any “discount or scratch and dent sales” allowed. Only first quality items for sale.
• I think we can always keep advertising as much as possible ~ Did we have posters? Didn’t see those.
• Any chance of walking billboards circulating
on square?
• Talk to Lucifer and tell him that late afternoon rain was not appreciated by anyone-not funny.
• Less humid weather
• End at 5 on Saturday and 4 on Sunday
• More signage like “We are Wisconsin Artists!”
More signs on street by food vendors. Artists booth # signs should be larger.
And are you volunterring to help?