Another reason I decided to have a booth in an antique mall is to try to expose my local public to collectible artist teddy bears.

You don’t really see artist bears in person anywhere.  There are some teddy bear shows left, but there are much fewer in person shows now as the costs for artists to attend the shows keep increasing, and it becomes easier and easier to sell bears online.  Shops that carry artist bears are becoming fewer and fewer.  Teddy Bear magazines, although still published, are not found on the newsstands any longer.

I plan to have some literature printed that explains what artist bears are and why they cost so much more than mass produced teddy bears.   I will have it available for free at my booth.  When I get it designed, I will offer that here too in case you would like to spread the word too.

It is important to educate the general public about the existence of collectible artist bears so that more people will want to collect them.  This is my way of trying to help do just that in my tiny corner of the world.