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In this week’s ColumbusUnderground.com Podcast, we check in with Katie Laux-Lucas and Emily Swartzlander who are busy putting the final touches on this year’s Columbus Arts Festival. The event takes place on June 5, 6, and 7 in the Discovery District Downtown. Tune in to find out what’s new at this year’s festival!
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It’s called the Columbus art’s festival Yet more then ¾ of the people there are not even from Ohio. I understand it’s called that due to the fact that it is in Columbus but I would like to see them focus on artist from Columbus or local as well.
Yep, that is my biggest beef with the “Columbus” arts festival. It is just another stop on the travelling circuit of summer arts festivals. Yawn. In general, galleries and local arts across the country LOATHE these arts festivals.
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It’s okay the folks that attend the festival are just the kind of people that both need and enjoy it! For those folks that want local art you know where to find it!!! if not PM me..
my mother has applied to the cols arts fest every year for the past 25 years and was only accepted twice….. she does about 20 shows a year and no love from columbus…. wow now that i think about it she has spent thousands in application fees. not very smart on her part. but she applies to dozens a year so whatever.
Coreroc Says: It’s okay the folks that attend the festival are just the kind of people that both need and enjoy it! For those folks that want local art you know where to find it!
Very well said. I think there’s room for both local art and non-local art. Especially considering that this is a one-off annual event and there are local art shows here year round. If you really want to view local art and buy local art, then I really don’t anyone is hurting for opportunities to do that.
We might as well just start complaining that the Columbus Museum of Art doesn’t show enough local art. :P
Oh yeah and if this art festival in the streets of downtown Columbus doesn’t suit your fancy then just hold your horses till September and check out Independents Day and how us locals get down.
Last year I went and was disappointed by much of the art at the festival (food was good though). CCAD students living in a nearby apartment building were having their own sale at the same time. The quality was better there, and I ended up buying one of those works. Yay local!
I should have been a little more explicit in my distaste for the Columbus Arts Festival, which dates back long before CU was even a thought let alone Independents Day. It has also been pretty much a one-off, self-contained and separate entity.
The art that is there is the exact same wares being peddling as part of the national summer circuit of arts festivals. For a city of our size and with the arts base we have, a larger effort should be made to get something special as well as a higher quality which will help everyone. Ann Arbor, so much smaller, has an arts festival of greater quality. As the capital city of Ohio, an effort should also be made to get Ohio artists.
As our city has grown, our arts community has grown in size and diversity at an even faster pace. The Arts Festival has just not kept up. It is not about local/non-local, but about having an event that is comparable and fits with our city and its arts community. When you do that, the Festival is not just a one-off, self-contained entity, but part of the larger whole.
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I agree that it would be great to grow and diversify the Arts Fest to include some of the things you’re talking about, and have stated as such in past discussions as well. I do think there is demand for something new, which is in part why both Agora and Independents Day (just to point at the larger events) have been well so attended.
That being said… I still plan on walking over to the festival and getting an elephant ear. :D
+1 Walker.
…and I’m reading at six on Saturday…
$250k first prize – that’s how they’re doing it in Grand Rapids, MI of all places. If we want quality, creativity and buzz, maybe we should follow their example: http://www.artprize.org/
I’m excited! …but I’ve gotta nit-pick. ;-)
[10:22] It’s not “Briar” Rabbit, it’s “Br’er” (that is, “Brother”) Rabbit. (LOL)
That said, I can’t wait to see the performance!
Map! (Click to enlarge)
It was rather annoying that they shut down the parking lot of the Art Museum on the last weekend of their Egypt exhibit.
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That is a bummer, but I’m sure the final week of the exhibit will still be packed. Parking is available a block away at the CSCC garage (as well as various other nearby lots and meters), and they’re promoting the event at the CMA as a part of the Arts Fest experience. I’m sure that having a couple hundred thousand extra pedestrians in the neighborhood is going to keep the CMA busy, parking lot access or no. ;)
I’ll be their volunteering at the t-shirt sales from 10-3 on Saturday.
Mention this post and I will sign it for you for free.
Anne & I will be serving Jeni’s Ice Creams from 11am-3pm on Saturday. We will also sign your ice cream. :D
FYI… for anyone going, I’ve seen a lot of open meters on Jefferson between Broad & Long, just a block east of the festival. They might fill up later, but makes for some free/cheap parking for the weekend if you don’t want to pay $5 to park in a lot. :D
I’ll plug Pedal Instead again for Catherine. Free Parking!