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  • I've done the Sedona show also.....in the past.  It's a wonderful setting and they treat you well but.....I have fine art jewelry and while I got a lot of compliments, I only have been able to sell enough to pay for my expenses (to do the show...not to get there and back)  and that makes me one of the lucky ones!

  • I did Sedona this past October. I love Sedona, but I'm one of many artists who've said we simply can't afford to repeat this show. Let me lay out the bottom line for you: I sold exactly ONE print. All weekend. 

    The show itself is wonderful--the artwork truly is top-quality there; when they say it's a fine arts festival, it is! No knick knacks, doodads, and cheap kitsch here. These truly are gifted artists and I was VERY impressed by the high quality level. If you're an art buyer, it's a GREAT show. The weather couldn't be nicer, and the setting is beautiful! 

    The problem is, people just weren't able to sell much, unless you had a lot of sub-$50 items (a huge tent with tables and tables of $20-40 pottery was making a ton of money). Jewelers did well on theirlow-cost items. 

    Higher-end sculptors, painters, and photographers were struggling. I made friends with all the fellow painters, and one guy sold one $400 original, another woman sold a few prints, and the photographers sold some of those slate tiles with photos on them, but that's about it. The lady, who'd attended for ten years straight (and had gobs of ribbons from past years there to show for it) confided to me that she couldn't come back after this, either, because she'd taken in $200 for the whole weekend--and her work was awesome. 

    Also, the judges for the show never came to my booth. I kept waiting for them to come by and introduce themselves, and they never did. I heard winners announced on the speakers while I was still hoping they'd come by! 

    Sedona is so new-age that the people there like a lot of contemporary, abstract new-age art, too. My stuff's very traditional realism. I got a lot of compliments and "I love that!"s, but not much else. I've been invited back, and I don't have a SINLGE word of criticism for the planners of the show at all. Not one bit of this is their fault; they did an extraordinary job of taking care of us artists and having a perfect grounds for us. I'd love to go back as a vacationing browser, because I loved the high quality of work there so much. 

  • We have done Sedona in the past but it has been a few years. We did it 3 times...and it ranged from decent to very good. We are doing it again this year and I will write a review when it is over.

    • Pauline - when is the show?  We're visiting friends in Sedona in Oct. don't plan to do the show this year but wouldn't mind walking it to see if we should consider it for next year.

       

      • Hi Ruth: It is second weekend on October and is at a high school (think it is called Red Rocks)...it is kind of west of town. There is a gate fee but if we get any freebies I can leave them there for you. I think we may have gotten 2 passes in past years but can't remember for sure.

  • Steve, I haven't done a show there but I can tell you something about the area.  Sedona is very art orientated.  There are galleries everywhere.  The area also brings in tons of visitors and tourists.  They do spend time in the galleries and at the art shows.  You will love the area.  It is beautiful.  You won't have to worry about rain there.  It is sunny and beautiful there.

    • Thanks Jacki,

      I was hoping to get a handle on sales of good art jewelry.  I can't afford to take another "vacation' in the name of doing an art show.  It appeared to me in their video that a lot of what they had was more crafty than fine art.

      • i also put a feelers  out about the sedona show to some friends that have done it in the past,  they took one look at me and said forget it.  There is a gate of 10.00.  They have extended the deadline about 3 times now  that should say something for the show.  I trust these friends of mine  and when they say forget it, that is just what i have done and this was in may 2014.  If i were you i would forget it.  I live about 60 miles from Sedona and will not do it.   i found a show in summerlin, nv. that i really like and when it starts up again in 2015 will be going back   maybe if you live close and are free that weekend go and observe.

        • Thanks, Steve

          I called a gallery in Sedona and got more or less the same report.

          • The same report, what did the gallery say.  i would be curious.

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