Fair art exhibit big, deep and wide

From: The Gazette | Date: August 18, 2000| Author: Mark Arnest; The Gazette | Copyright information

It may sound unlikely, but no annual exhibit in Colorado is as reliably satisfying as the Colorado State Fair Art Exhibit.

For one thing, it's huge - more than 320 works juried in from approximately 900 entries - which makes you feel as though there's a lot going on artistically in Colorado.

Second, its breadth is consistently amazing, from simple line drawings to fabrics to video installations to massive three- dimensional works, with everything in between. That's partly a re...

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