Category: Art fairs

Here is something interesting that I’ve certainly never heard of. At the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame & Museum in Amarillo, Texas they will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of America’s Horse in Art show. The exhibit includes artwork from more than 40 of the world’s best Western artists and will take place from August 12 to October 14.

The artists at the show present their paintings, drawings and sculptures in the Scharbauer Gallery. They tell me that the signature piece this year is by artist Joni Monroe Beinborn of La Crosse, Wisconsin. Titled “Any Time…Any Place,” the piece should make a splash with guests.

It certainly sounds like an event worth putting on your calendar.

ArtYard is about to open a new art exhibit. ArtYard is also an artists’ residency complex is soon opening in Frenchtown, New Jersey. The show entitled Through the Unfrequented Sky, features Cecilia Paredes’ work. She is a Rockefeller fellow and an award winning artist.

The show will open on March 25 from 6-8pm and will run through June 11.

Don’t miss, as well, Paredes’ other photo-performance pieces where she uses her own body as a canvas and paints herself to blend in to the scene behind her.

If you are in, or near, Chicago, you should run to get there by tomorrow. The annual SOFA Chicago fair starts tomorrow and goes until the 6th. This is one of the Chicago’s longest running art fairs. It takes place at Navy Pier and includes sculptures, functional art and more from 80 galleries and dealers.

It’s called SOFA because it stands for Sculpture Objects Functional Art and Design and it’s the premier fair for three-dimensional art and design. SOFA began in 1994 at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers with 58 exhibitors and 14,000 people in attendance. It moved to the Festival Hall at the Navy Pier in 1995 and has grown to include 85-90 galleries a year and more than 35,000 people a year.

If you were in Louisville, Kentucky this week, then you were in for a treat. They just celebrated the 8^th annual September Art Fair at Mellwood Arts Center on Saturday and Sunday. The event included 165 artists. The event used to take place at the Ursuline Sisters on the Sacred Heart campus for 27 years but moved to Mellwood as it outgrew the space. Local charities are still offered free booths, like they were at Ursuline.

In 2015, they had a crowd of 50,000 and they were certainly expecting a similar crowd this past weekend. For more details and to see what the event was like, enjoy this slideshow.

Image from https://www.visitannarbor.org/artfair

If you’ve never been to the Ann Arbor Art Fair, now is definitely the time to enjoy. The 57^th edition is from Thursday to Sunday of this week in downtown Ann Arbor and includes free admission. The event is actually a merging of four independent fairs. The Ann Arbor Summer Art Fair has the most artists at about 375 and two locations on Main Street and State Street.

The fair is one of the largest outdoor art fairs in the country. It includes street performers, culinary treats, amazing art and sidewalk sales of all sorts. The four fairs include Ann Arbor Street Art Fair, the Ann Arbor Summer Art Fair, the State Street District and the South University Art Fair. Learn more about each location and fair and get ready for an amazing weekend.

If you’re still looking for something great to do on Father’s Day – this just might be it. If you’re in the Chicago area, check out the Lake Meadows Art Fair that will take place June 18 and 19 from 11am to 8pm in the Bronzeville community at 33rd Street and Martin Luther King Drive. There will be more than 25 locally and nationally recognized fine artists, jewelry makers, clothing designers and others.

As Helen Y. West, curator and executive producer of the art fair said, “Once again we celebrate the richness of our culture and show support for those who help to keep this culture alive through their beautiful paintings, sculpture, ceramics, photography, wearable art apparel, jewelry and more. This year, we will take time to pay tribute to fathers and invite couples and families to visit and enjoy the Lake Meadows Art Fair together.”

For more details and to learn about the 2016 art honoree, the music that will be at the fair and more, see their website.