July 31-August 2
Park City, Utah
Historic Main Street
Presented by the Kimball Art Center
Approximately 210 Exhibiting Artists
Application deadline: March 1
Nestled in the Wasatch Mountains, the Park City Kimball Arts Festival is one of the oldest and largest arts festivals in the Western United States.
The festival attracts approximately 57,000 art enthusiasts to Park City's beautiful Historic Main Street to purchase from our 210 participating artists, enjoy the live music, and the delicious food and drinks.
12 Eligible Media Categories:
- Ceramics
- Drawing
- Fiber
- Glass
- Jewelry
- Metalwork
- Mixed Media
- Painting
- Photography
- Printmaking
- Sculpture
- Wood
The Park City Kimball Arts Festival Appreciates our Artists!
- 2014 Average Artist Sales: $5,140
- No commission
- Lodging discounts
- Designated load-in times
- Reserved artist parking
- Artist lounge
- Booth-sitters
The Park City Kimball Arts Festival is the primary fundraiser for the Kimball Art Center. Proceeds from the event support the mission, education programs, and community outreach of Kimball Art Center, Park City's non-profit community art center, since 1976.
The Kimball Art Center is the heart of Park City's vibrant arts community. We are a non-profit center for the arts, committed to engaging individuals of all ages in diverse and inspiring experiences though education, exhibitions and events.
For more information & to apply: www.parkcitykimballartsfestival.org/
Comments
I was on the lower end of the show just below the steep grade.
Kimball Art Center used to host a big event called Rocky Mountain Art Invitational. Sometime in the late 1990's I sent a page of slides to them requesting to be an invited exhibitor. Somehow they lost my package and I became a bit disenchanted due to their carelessness. I never sent another request. Soon after that, in 1999, we began changing our market. We ditched doing just western art and quit trying to work our way to the top in that genre.
Fast forward to 2006... We decided to try Park City Kimball Art Show since it is close to home. When we checked into the event inside Kimball, the galleries were dark, but I could plainly see all the western art in there and recognized plenty of the artists works. I asked about it and learned that it was part of a fundraiser for Kimball, that it had sold the day before. Now we're not talking small time art. We're talking gallery artists such as Donna Howell-Sickles.
I don't think Kimball referred to that event as Rocky Mountain Invitational anymore. I don't know exactly what they called it then.
Park City is a good show. The street is slanted sideways and a little hard to set up. Park City is a destination of celebrities.
Heck, it's only 350 miles from home, too.
The "scuttlebutt" was official printed newspaper news, not just grapevine gossip. I hope they've worked something great out for their beautiful community.
I'm always planning and thinking. It's a summer show, but not as hot as we know summer shows can be. So that makes it a contender for me. We don't plan on even trying Cherry Creek since it's a 90 degree plus temps guarantee. But there are still some aspects of Park City that make it less desirable for us. No award money, higher booth fees than we normally pay, the whatever-it-is expensive patron reception happening the day before, and the year we actually did the show about 10 years ago, that big ol' western art auction that happened the day before the outdoor festival. I'm sure the sales at the auction topped 100K considering the artists involved, none of whom were in the outdoor art fair. It's a fundraiser for Kimball, so maybe they can't survive without the suite of events. I'm still considering doing the outdoor show, as always.
When I spoke with Hannah Palmer about this show I told her the scuttlebutt I had heard. I don't recall what she said about the plans for moving the Art Center but she definitely said the festival would stay where it is. So that is not a problem for artists. Barrie, is this show in your future?
I read something about this show last summer and posted about that on AFI. Something about the City not supporting an annex and expansion, and thus the Museum would have to relocate. And that would drastically affect the show, that maybe the show would even move. I'll have to investigate more about it. I hope nothing happens to the show and Museum for artists sake and for the sake of Park City.