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| A piece of art at the Oklahoma City Festival of the Arts. Photo: Michael Runyan |
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| A piece of art titled "Top." Photo: Michael Runyan |
Thousands gathered in Saturday in Oklahoma City's Myriad Gardens to enjoy and sell art of all kinds in the annual Oklahoma City Festival of the Arts.
The festival this year contains over 500 visual artists and 300 entertainers. The projected attendance for the event is 750,000 people. Real numbers are not yet available, since as of press time the festival is still going on.
The event has been held annually for more than 40 year. It currently resides in the newly renovated Myriad gardens, but didn't always do so. Tim Rhodes, an University of Oklahoma alumni, said the festival started out on the west lawn of city hall, about a half block square of area. Eventually, it moved to the Myriad Gardens, with an area of about four blocks.
Darby Perrin has painted aviation art for about 30 years and has displayed his art at many other festivals, but this is his first time appearing at the Oklahoma Festival of The Arts. "It's a nice setup and everything, (but) sales are iffy." he said. He elaborated that he had not sold any originals, but had seen several of his prints go by and would know how many of those had sold at the end of the day. The prints are sold in a separate booth at the festival.
Monday April 30th, the Arts council will present "Art moves," as part of Arts Day at the Capitol.
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