Golden Colorado Fine Arts Festival Reviews`

Medium: Fiber
Year you most recently exhibited at this Show:
2016
Your Estimated Sales at this Show: $5001-$10,000
Price Range of your Work: $3-$4000
Number of Years You have Exhibited in this Show:
10+ times!
Number of Years You have been doing Art Fairs overall: Forever...
Attendance: (1 is poor, 5 is great) 5
Location: 5
Facilities: 5
Ease of Participating: 5
Sales: 5
Overall: 5
Booth Fee vs. Your Sales Ratio: Great
Estimated Attendance: 10,001-50,000 people

Good Things about this Art Fair:
Consistent good sales year after year

Bad Things about this Art Fair:
Insufficient tax info this year.

Advice to Other Artists Considering this Show:
Warrants out-of-state travel

Additional Commentary on this Show:
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Posted by: Richard Sherer | 08/28/2016 at 11:24 PM

Medium: Fiber
Year you most recently exhibited at this Show: 2015
Your Estimated Sales at this Show: $2001-$5000
Number of Years You have Exhibited in this Show: 10+ times!
Attendance: (1 is poor, 5 is great) 5 (great)
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: 10,001-50,000 people

Good Things about this Art Fair:
Well managed and promoted show. Lots of buyers.

Bad Things about this Art Fair:
no complaints

Posted by: Richard Sherer | 08/20/2014 at 11:18 AM

Show Name: Golden Fine Art Festival
City and State: Golden, CO
Your Medium: Photography
Year you most recently exhibited at this Show: 2013
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: 4
Facilities: 4
Ease of Participating: 3
Sales: 4
Overall: 4
Booth Fee vs. Your Sales Ratio: Good
Estimated Attendance: 10,001-50,000 people

Good Things about this Art Fair:
Great location and attendance. Good mix of customers, lots of affluent locals, visitors from Denver, and summer tourists. Lots of excellent art.

Bad Things about this Art Fair:
Teardown can be a hassle.Festival is set up on narrow city street and not much room to get around.

Advice to Other Artists Considering this Show:
Very good show. Can be hard to get into, but worth a try.

Posted by: Casey Chinn | 03/21/2014 at 01:43 PM

Show Name: Golden Fine Arts Festival
City and State: Golden, CO
Your Medium: Photography
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: 1st time
Attendance: (1 is poor, 5 is great) 4
Location: 4
Facilities: 4
Ease of Participating: 5 (great)
Sales: 3
Overall: 4
Booth Fee vs. Your Sales Ratio: Okay
Estimated Attendance: 501-10,000 people

Good Things about this Art Fair: Easy setup & parking, great volunteers, nice offerings for the artists (dinner reception, food & drink from the hotel nearby), fairly good crowd with some who were knowledgable about B&W photography (my medium). I had a lot of positive feedback on my work, and I was honored to receive First Place in the Photography category.

Bad Things about this Art Fair: My only gripe is that while the fair did request that everyone breakdown completely before driving their vehicle to their booth area, that wasn't enforced. As I pulled in to get my already packed up items, a LOT of vendors had gotten their vehicles prior to tearing down.

Advice to Other Artists Considering this Show: I think this is a good show for anyone living in the area, but the sales I saw wouldn't make it worth while if I had to drive in from out-of-state.

Additional Commentary on this Show: While this fair ended up being my best for sales at Colorado shows so far, it was only a couple hundred dollars more than I've made at other small-mid sized fairs. Overall the sales were slow and considerably less than I had expected (mine were under $700), and heard this from other artist there as well.

Posted by: Jim Sincock | 09/01/2013 at 01:08 PM

Your Medium: Photography
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: 1st time
Attendance: (1 is poor, 5 is great) 4
Location: 4
Facilities: 4
Ease of Participating: 5 (great)
Sales: 3
Overall: 4
Booth Fee vs. Your Sales Ratio: Okay
Estimated Attendance: 501-10,000 people

Good Things about this Art Fair:
Easy setup & parking, great volunteers, nice offerings for the artists (dinner reception, food & drink from the hotel nearby), fairly good crowd with some who were knowledgable about B&W photography (my medium). I had a lot of positive feedback on my work, and I was honored to receive First Place in the Photography category.

Bad Things about this Art Fair:
My only gripe is that while the fair did request that everyone breakdown completely before driving their vehicle to their booth area, that wasn't enforced. As I pulled in to get my already packed up items, a LOT of vendors had gotten their vehicles prior to tearing down.

Advice to Other Artists Considering this Show:
I think this is a good show for anyone living in the area, but the sales I saw wouldn't make it worth while if I had to drive in from out-of-state.
Additional Commentary on this Show (or about this form):
While this fair ended up being my best for sales at Colorado shows so far, it was only a couple hundred dollars more than I've made at other small-mid sized fairs. Overall the sales were slow and considerably less than I had expected (mine were under $700), and heard this from other artist there as well.

Posted by: Jim Sincock | 08/23/2013 at 12:09 PM

Your Medium: Fiber
Year you most recently exhibited at this Show: 2013
Your Estimated Sales at this Show: $2001-$5000
Number of Years You have Exhibited in this Show: 5-10 times
Attendance: (1 is poor, 5 is great) 5 (great)
Location: 5 (great)
Facilities: 5 (great)
Ease of Participating: 5 (great)
Sales: 5 (great)
Overall: 5 (great)
Booth Fee vs. Your Sales Ratio: Great
Estimated Attendance: 10,001-50,000 people

Good Things about this Art Fair:
Well managed, very good sales. See blog at ArtFairInsiders.com for details

Bad Things about this Art Fair:
cramped booth layout.

Advice to Other Artists Considering this Show:
Apply and do it.

Posted by: Richard Sherer | 08/23/2013 at 12:05 PM

Show Name: Golden fine arts show
City and State: Golden, colorado
Your Medium: Metal
Year you most recently exhibited at this Show: 2013
Your Estimated Sales at this Show: $2001-$5000
Number of Years You have Exhibited in this Show: 2-3 times
Attendance: (1 is poor, 5 is great) 4
Location: 5 (great)
Facilities: 5 (great)
Ease of Participating: 5 (great)
Sales: 4
Overall: 4
Booth Fee vs. Your Sales Ratio: Good
Estimated Attendance: 50,001+ people

Good Things about this Art Fair:
Crowds on Sat were huge, around 10 am when show began the street was crowded. My booth stayed crowded most of sat. Parking was easy for artists, The buyers were there on Sat. not so much on Sun.
Had a reception for artists on Fri night and i thought food was excellent, We all spoke among ourselves. Good vibes. booth sitters were plentiful and even brought sandwiches and drinks to artists who were alone. Saw no buy/sell so they kept the show clean and very good art.

Bad Things about this Art Fair:
It was a long walk to get to the van when artists parked on sat and sun. Breakdown went smoothly except for one or two who brought in vans before they were broken down. Lots of dogs even though it said don't bring your dog. Artists also brought their animals

Advice to Other Artists Considering this Show:
Come prepared for 95 degree weather, either set up early or late.
Additional Commentary on this Show (or about this form):
Show was well run, staff helpful and friendly, Crowds appreciative of the work

Posted by: Steve Appel | 08/23/2013 at 12:02 PM

Show Name: Golden(CO) Fine Arts Festival
City and State: Golden, 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: 5-10 times
Attendance: (1 is poor, 5 is great) 5 (great)
Location: 5 (great)
Facilities: 5 (great)
Ease of Participating: 5 (great)
Sales: 5 (great)
Overall: 5 (great)
Booth Fee vs. Your Sales Ratio: Great
Estimated Attendance: 10,001-50,000 people

Good Things about this Art Fair: Very well promoted in print and TV media. Well managed by experienced staff. Very competent jury - no buy/sell gets into this s how,and top of the line art work. Definitely promotes Colorado artists,followed by NM, UT, AZ, TX,CA, and a few from WA, DC, FL.

Bad Things about this Art Fair: Minor problem with same volunteer this year as in 2011 about take down procedure. Got problem solved by taking it to Executive Director.

Advice to Other Artists Considering this Show: This is a competitive show to get into.

Additional Commentary on this Show:See my blog and blogs by Steve Apple and S. Brian click on my name below.

Posted by: Richard Sherer | 09/15/2012 at 11:23 AM

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