After Show Visitors walk away from the line of arts and craft booths along a city street, the flurry of activity that then transpires is calculated and precise when vehicles pull up to the curb and exhibitors begin packing up for the journey home to studios and work areas.
Already exhausted from their show, artists and craftsmen, their families, and helpers take a deep breath and put forth one last surge of effort to vacate the scene.
Gordon Koppert gave me the idea of running 2 x 4’s across the inside of my Ford van, securing them to the side van frame with slide bolts. This solved my problem of placing my paintings first rather than storing the bulky setup on the bottom layer Taking a painting down and loading it was much easier than my old method of stacking paintings off to the side, loading the setup as a bottom layer then placing paintings on top of the setup.
Nana K. and Jean deserve the “Good and Faithful Servant” titles for all their load-up help through the years. I took that deep breath knowing they would be there wherever a show exhibition took me. Mothers and sisters are like that.