Downtown Grand Junction Art and Jazz Festival Reviews.

Show Name: Downtown Grand Junction Art and Music Festival
City and State: Grand Junction, CO
Your Medium: Fiber
Year you most recently exhibited at this Show: 2014
Your Estimated Sales at this Show: $501-$2000
Number of Years You have Exhibited in this Show: 2-3 times
Attendance: (1 is poor, 5 is great) 5 (great)
Location: 4
Facilities: 4
Ease of Participating: 4
Sales: 2
Overall: 3
Booth Fee vs. Your Sales Ratio: Okay
Estimated Attendance: 501-10,000 people

Good Things about this Art Fair:
easy set up, well organized

Bad Things about this Art Fair:
Very few affluent buyers

Advice to Other Artists Considering this Show:
Might be OK for local travel.

Additional Commentary on this Show:
New management for 2014 spread out booths and added new music venues. Emphasis was on music, not art.

Posted by: Richard Sherer | 05/12/2014 at 09:54 PM

Show Name: Grand Junction Downtown Art & Jazz Festival
City and State: Grand Junction, CO
Your Medium: Fiber
Year you most recently exhibited at this Show: 2013
Your Estimated Sales at this Show: $501-$2000
Number of Years You have Exhibited in this Show: 2-3 times
Attendance: (1 is poor, 5 is great) 3
Location: 5 (great)
Facilities: 5 (great)
Ease of Participating: 5 (great)
Sales: 3
Overall: 4
Booth Fee vs. Your Sales Ratio: Good
Estimated Attendance: 10,001-50,000 people
Good Things about this Art Fair: One of the earliest shows starting the summer season in Colorado. Diverse attendance of retires with spending money, young professionals, mid age professionals, rural and town folks, university students,tourists.

Bad Things about this Art Fair: Economy relatively good in GJ with energy development but sales were down in 2013 from 2012. Hard to figure this one out.

Advice to Other Artists Considering this Show: Worthwhile to travel to within Colorado.

Additional Commentary on this Show (or about this form):Easy set up and artists are treated well.

Posted by: Richard Sherer | 05/19/2013 at 09:47 AM

Show Name: Downtown Grand Junction (CO) Art & Jazz Festival
City and State: Grand Junction, CO
Your Medium: Fiber
Year you most recently exhibited at this Show: 2012
Your Estimated Sales at this Show: $2001-$5000
Number of Years You have Exhibited in this Show: 1st time
Attendance: (1 is poor, 5 is great) 4
Location: 5 (great)
Facilities: 5 (great)
Ease of Participating: 5 (great)
Sales: 4
Overall: 5 (great)
Booth Fee vs. Your Sales Ratio: Good
Estimated Attendance: 501-10,000 people

Good Things about this Art Fair: Early for Colorado shows, well managed, no buy/ sell

Bad Things about this Art Fair: Runs to 9 pm Friday and Saturday, but little traffic and pointless to stay open that late. Cash awards given for Best of Show 1,2,3 places.

Advice to Other Artists Considering this Show: Grand Junction is the largest town on the western slope. There is lots of energy industry money and agriculture money in the region.

Additional Commentary on this Show (or about this form):Set up is easy and starts at 9 am on Friday and show opens at 4 pm Friday. Saturday hours are 10 to 9 and Sunday hours are 10 to 4. Well juried and quality work exhibited. Live music runs during the entire show. Setting is recently landscaped downtown street with booths in street parking bays. Lots of good restaurants.
My medium is leather and I had originally planned to do the show in 2011. Show management called me because they had to eliminate about 50 booths because of construction. I wanted to do the show because in the early 1990's I had a dealer in GJ who sold my saddles. See blog by clicking name below.

Posted by: Richard Sherer | 09/15/2012 at 11:45 AM

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