Fayetteville Arts Festival Save-the-Date, QuickStats and Sponsorship/Ad Opps

Save the date for 08/30/07 for the Arts Festival Open Space Art Party. Tickets will be 35.00 per person. It was really fun last year!

Here's some prelim information on the FAF coming up in September. There are some good opps. Do you mind forwarding this to anyone who might be interested?

More info online (http://www.fayettevillearts.org):

2006 FESTIVAL QUICK STATS

• Estimated 5,000 people attended festival events over the two weekends
• 54% of the patrons surveyed had not attended the festival prior to 2006
• Visual arts weekend produced almost $50,000 in art sales, a 129% increase in overall sales and a 71% increase in average artist sales from 2005.
• Printed 500 posters, 2500 artist postcards, 7500 handbills, 7500 schedules and 10000 artist catalogs, dropping them off in over 50 locations throughout Northwest Arkansas
• Juried art show hosted 39 visual artists representing 5 states and 28 cities
• 96% of the visual artists rated their festival experience as either fantastic or pretty good.
• Of the 39 artists accepted in 2006, 46% were new to the festival and 12% had participated for 4+ years.
• 97% of the visual artists approved of the move to the Fayetteville Town Center/indoor venue and 85% said they would apply again next year.

Produced by Fayetteville Downtown Partners

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