{"id":489,"date":"2023-05-17T18:05:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T18:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/?p=489"},"modified":"2026-07-01T18:08:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:08:43","slug":"planning-for-the-glen-ridge-arts-and-eco-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/planning-for-the-glen-ridge-arts-and-eco-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning for the Glen Ridge Arts and Eco Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite having curated and organized numerous art exhibitions over the years under the “McKinney Arts” banner, they’ve always been indoor gallery situations. This year I decided to participate as a solo artist in the Glen Ridge Arts & Eco Fair, which will take place (weather permitting) this Saturday, May 20th.<\/p>\n

Since I’ve never done a street fair before, there has been plenty of planning and preparation involved, including buying a tent and trying to decide how to present my art, when I need to create my own “walls” to hang them on. As you can see in the pictures below, I’m experimenting with pegboard and custom-built wooden legs\/structures, which I’ve designed in a somewhat improvised manner. This display setup is still a work-in-progress, so what you see below is just the construction stage in my garage, I plan to expand it and fine-tune it over these next couple of days.<\/p>\n

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Building free-standing walls for displaying my paintings at the upcoming Glen Ridge Arts and Eco Fair.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you’re in the area, please stop by and say hello! More info on the fair hours and location can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite having curated and organized numerous art exhibitions over the years under the “McKinney Arts” banner, they’ve always been indoor gallery situations. This year I decided to participate as a solo artist in the Glen Ridge Arts & Eco Fair, which will take place (weather permitting) this Saturday, May 20th. Since I’ve never done a … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,31],"tags":[103,331,332],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-by-mark-mckinney","category-mckinney-arts","tag-art-fair-booth","tag-glen-ridge","tag-glen-ridge-arts-eco-fair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3513,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/3513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}