Art in the Park Loveland Reviews..

Art in the Park is now a juried show. It is NOT a craft fair. Items sold range in price from $25 to $3000.00 They have live music, craft beer and over 20,000 attendees. This year set a record for sales and visitors.

Posted by: olivia H lowe | 08/16/2018 at 12:11 AM

I did this show in 2010 ended up fleeing the sales were so bad. Seemed like no one was doing well that weekend.USED to be a ok show now its not worth ANYONES (artist or buyer) time.
This seems to be an overwhelming theme for more than 50% of my shows. Each year my cost to make my items goes up and I really try not to raise prices but when the shows raise the price to us, it puts all artists in a very bad position. We just keep making less and less each year and ORGANIZERS rake in the money. Something is very wrong with this picture!

Posted by: Ja browne | 06/20/2018 at 06:44 PM

Medium: Photography
Year you most recently exhibited at this Show: 2014
Your Estimated Sales at this Show: < $500
Number of Years You have Exhibited in this Show: 5-10 times
Attendance: (1 is poor, 5 is great) 2
Location: 3
Facilities: 3
Ease of Participating: 3
Sales: 1 (poor)
Overall: 1 (poor)
Booth Fee vs. Your Sales Ratio: Poor
Estimated Attendance: 501-10,000 people

Good Things about this Art Fair:
It is local for us?

Bad Things about this Art Fair:
It is no longer an art show, 100% craft buyers. The buyers want cheap, cheap, cheap and have no appreciation for art. The people that visit the sculpture show (have money and appreciation for art) no longer come down to art in the park.

Could not even sell our small prints in bin. Only sold 2 for $170 (after selling $2k+ worth in crested butte the week before). Did not even cover booth fee of $225. New layout in 2014 was horrendous. Patrons were even complaining about the layout and getting lost. A parking lot that was for vendors in past years was designated for TVAL (art league) people only. Whoever ran it in 2014 did a very bad job. After doing the show for 7 years, we will not do this show again.

Advice to Other Artists Considering this Show:
Dont

Posted by: Steve Sawusch | 08/13/2014 at 09:37 PM

Show Name: Loveland Art in the Park
City and State: Loveland, CO
Your Medium: Photography
Year you most recently exhibited at this Show: 2012
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) 2
Location: 4
Facilities: 4
Ease of Participating: 5 (great)
Sales: 1 (poor)
Overall: 2
Booth Fee vs. Your Sales Ratio: Poor
Estimated Attendance: 501-10,000 people

Good Things about this Art Fair: The staff is very helpful, doing everything they can to make load in and load out easy. The booth spaces are oversized, leaving plenty of room. Everyone has a corner booth.

Bad Things about this Art Fair: The board of directors in charge of this show has ruined it as an art show, allowing the sort of low end, manufactured junk one expects to see at a flea market. The growing number of vendors re-selling this sort of stuff has attracted a demographic that is largely not interested in fine art. Unless we hear that the this has gone back to being strictly an art show we won't return.

Advice to Other Artists Considering this Show: What is your product? If you are selling fine art think very hard about competing with the people selling $5 jewelry and pillow pets. Logistically, this is an easier show to move in and out of with lots of help, but you will have to move in and out over grass. If you go you may want to take that in to consideration when choosing how far you want your booth to be from the curb.

Posted by: Jack Bayles | 11/02/2012 at 09:57 AM

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