Crested Butte Art Festival Reviews.

Medium: 2D mixed media
Year you most recently exhibited at this Show:
2017
Your Estimated Sales at this Show: Rather not say
Price Range of your Work: $35 to $3,500
Number of Years You have Exhibited in this Show:
1st time
Number of Years You have been doing Art Fairs overall: 5-10 years
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:
This is one of the most well run shows I have ever been to. Set up was on Friday morning and even though we had to wait to drive in and get a spot, everyone was patient and it was very well organized.

Friday night, even though it was cool out - people came. It wasn't a big night but better than most preview events....Saturday started off really well, this is a show where people come all three days and they look and really converse with the artists.

The weather was perfect (although coming from Tennessee the altitude was a bit of a factor....you don't think it's an issue then you climb a flight of stairs and feel like you have just run a marathon.

The dinner on Saturday night was excellent. The community went out of their way to put on a feast and awards were given out and the wine flowed.

Staying in Crested Butte is pretty expensive but we were lucky to find an airb&b that was 50 dollars a night-it wasn't any great shakes but we were never there so I think it worked out great.

Sunday was insane....in the after noon in the matter of one half hour I sold three large paintings....whew..

Load out was easy and well organized. If I ever get in again...I'm there.

What could this Art Fair have done better?:
The committee that put on the show is a well oiled machine.....no egos and no problems...a joy of a show to do.

Advice to Other Artists Considering this Show:
It's a heck of a long drive from the east but I guess you all that do Cherry Creek know about that. Stayed coming back at a hotel in Lincoln Nebraska called "The Graduate"...the room card was Johnny Carson's student ID....Stay there you will be entranced by all the feels.

The URL of your profile on ArtFairInsiders.com. http://margeluttrell.comy////

Posted by: Marge Luttrell | 08/23/2017 at 11:28 AM

Medium: 3D mixed media
Year you most recently exhibited at this Show: 2015
Your Estimated Sales at this Show: $10,000+
Price Range of your Work: $650 - $850
Number of Years You have Exhibited in this Show: 1st time
Number of Years You have been doing Art Fairs overall: 2-3 years
Attendance: (1 is poor, 5 is great) 4
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:
Beautiful town, great sales, friendly people, great staff

Advice to Other Artists Considering this Show: Buyers mentioned often that they were looking for current art - not the same old stuff they see in all the shows.

The URL of your profile onArtFairInsiders.com. http://www.artfairinsiders.com/profile/ToddPerkins

Posted by: Todd Perkins | 11/25/2015 at 10:23 PM

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