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  Alice Legler June 23, 2011 at 9:21pm

  Wow! This is precisely the kind of information that I've been trying to find!!  I wrote to the downtown festival (after finding it on ZAPP) several times last year (as I had some important questions!), and never could get anyone to answer me.  I was interested in it, because it looks similar in some ways to the Red River Revel Art Festival in Shreveport, Louisiana.........but, I had no idea that there was another show.  And, honestly, IF I had accidentally stumbled across it, I would have been extremely leery... because many alternate shows are absolutely horrible *omg* (VERY bad memories of a satellite show in Brookings, SD, immediately come to mind).  But, after having read these posts, I'm definitely interested in the ArtFest Midwest show, rather than the downtown one; inside in air-conditioning sounds favorable to consuming copious quantities of gatorade, just to stay alive ;)   Thank you so much!!
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  Barry Bernstein June 23, 2011 at 1:39pm

  Munks, I'm beginning to prefer the shows that have the least distractions like the one you are talking about.  Which one do you do?  Meredith talked favorable about the Artfest Midwest show, too.
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  Victoria L. Herring June 22, 2011 at 8:41pm

  The reason the downtown Festival gets all the press and notice is that the Register is one of the prime sponsors = it promotes it and not the ArtFest MW = Sue does as much as she can and sends us information to do some of our own promotion = it's indoors and that's a real positive.
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  Connie Mettler June 22, 2011 at 8:30pm

  Here you go, the big weekend in Des Moines as everything starts getting built around the town. Here is a story from WHOTV:

  "You'll find it a little difficult to get around downtown Des Moines the next few days as crews shut down roads around Western Gateway Park to set up for the Des Moines Arts Festival. The three day event gets underway Friday morning. Organizers expect thousands of visitors..." video too

  http://www.whotv.com/news/who-story-green-art-062211,0,1770455.story
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  Michael Stephens June 22, 2011 at 3:14pm

  Michael and I will also be at "the other show"  we strolled the downtown show last year....it certainly is first class...would love to get in sometime just to see what we would do there....The "other show"  has first class art also...lots of folks we see from all over the place from the show circuit....Don't know how well Stookey's show is advertised....the downtown show seems to get all the attention.....
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  Victoria L. Herring June 22, 2011 at 10:32am

  I'll be at Sue Stookey's ArtFest Midwest - it's well run, indoors [yea! and yay!] and it's not as toney as the downtown show, but provides a good Yin to its Yang.  Both are good shows and there's a shuttle between them so you can enjoy both.  The DSM Festival is in a gorgeous location and I hope to be able to go through it Friday night, after I've finished setting up at the ArtFEst Midwest.