I just recently became a vendor at a local vendors market and need some help with my options for a display. I sell caricatures so specifically I would like to know how to transport my display easily and would like to include lots of exaples of my work, an umbrella for shade ( it's by the beach in Clearwater FL ), 3 chairs, 2 easels, and lighting because it will be going on till 10:30pm. I also am on a budget so the cheapest but still quality way to do things, would be awesome...

Thanks,
D Goolsby

I'm just using my imagination here based upon the information that you have provided. Also, I am keeping a budget in mind.

I am assuming that you have preferably a van, station wagon or a truck that with an enclosed bed.

For display of many of your works, you might put together with hinges and framed with wood on the back around the edges, pegboard in three sections so that you could attach examples of your work wherever you want to on the pegboard. In order to suit your needs for display and as examples of your work as these will change in time. The three sections could be about two feet wide by five or six feet tall. It could all be folded together for easy transport.

You could also make a couple of long, thin boxes out of thin plywood, maybe about five feet long by three feet wide and eight or ten inches deep for transporting your easels and other things. These could be held together with various types of fasteners for strength, such as steel that is at a 90 degree angle and also corner braces. You could put wheels on one end of them and handles on the other ends so the you could wheel them without having to carry them for long distances.

The lighting that you have for examples of your work could be the clip-on type of lights that one might put on the headboard of a bed for reading. How about just one floor lamp in the middle of the entire area to light everything up some, without highlighting any particular areas?

Just some ideas.