August 20, 2025 • 7 mins
WANT TO BUY SOME AMAZING YET AFFORDABLE ART? The Affordable Arts Festival is consistently named one of the best art festivals in the country and it's this weekend! I'll check in with Jim DeLutes to get all the details, and you can find out more and check out some of the art here.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Do something beautiful for yourself and if you're looking for
a little artwork, maybe to freshen up what you've got
in your home. What a great opportunity I have for
you this weekend and joining me now to talk about
the Affordable Arts Festival. It's Jim delutis hi Jim? How
you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm doing well? How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I am doing just fine. I know this is the
time of the week where it's get to be the
rubber meets the road. But you're not in the day
to day anymore, are you. You're just the pretty face,
the arm candy that talks about the Affordable Arts Festival.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Oh no, I'm I'm no, I'm still in the fox hole.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Oh no, I thought you were retiring. Did we talk
about that?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Okay, okay, I'm not shoving you out the door yet.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I I thought we had the conversation because I realized
this is our fourteenth time discussing the Arts festival, and
that's how many years have gone by since I started it.
Then toly Cat like three years ago.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
That's fantastic, That's absolutely fantastic. Let's talk about what this
Affordable Arts festill is all about. First of all, what
are we raising money.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
For, Well, we're raising money for a rapid Hoo Community
College foundation for scholarships. And that's where the event happens
is on the campus there, and the money's raised strictly
from the twelve dollars admission fee. The artists do their
job by lowering the prices tremendously and getting people excited
(01:26):
about buying art. And this year we're one hundred and
fifty dollars or less. People can get all sorts of
wonderful things. That are our best deal for this year
is a five thousand dollars painting for one fifty.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Oh that's fantastic. Now here's the best part. Everybody shows
up Saturday morning. Everybody gets there early. You stand in
line with everybody else, You have coffee, maybe we get
a snack for yourself, and then the stampede starts. At
what time? What time do you gates open?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Well, let me just correct one thing. Sunday morning will
be it's a Saturday, it's going to be a long
Oh yes, I'm sorry about that. But yeah, so Sunday morning,
the people, hardcore people are in the line about five am.
But you're still good coming, you know, seven seven thirty. Yeah,
(02:15):
you're still getting pretty close to the front. The gates
open at nine o'clock. It runs from nine till three,
so it's a nearly six hour show, and but a
whole lot of art gets sold in those six hours. Well, I.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Love this event because you can find something for everyone,
and that's one of one of the things I want
to get across. Well, I hate going to an art
show where everything kind of looks the same, right, and
the artists are very similar and they don't have a
lot of variety. You guys have every kind of art.
Tell me a little bit about the artists that are
going to be there this year.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Well, we have one hundred and sixty artists and once again,
you know, they're coming in from about twenty two different
states to do this because this past year number one
in the country and so we're drawing attention here. But
the artwork is you know, kind of let you see
when you go to the art shows, except this time
(03:11):
that you can afford it. But you know, we have
a painting, and we have glass, and we have jewelry
and metal and sculpture and well, you know, just everything
you've seen, only you haven't seen those price tags before.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
No, not at all. And one of the things that
I that I want to talk about and I think
about it every year that I go to the art
show and then I see this artwork and then I'm like, dang,
why didn't I mention that you always have a really
good selection of artwork that would be perfect for a
baby's room or a kid's room. And that may seem
like a weird thing to point out, but you know,
in my husband's family, they have paintings that have hung
(03:47):
in every kid's bedrooms. Right, they become kind of a
family tradition. And if you are you got little kids,
you got it, you're about to have a baby, what
a great opportunity to come out and find something fun
that can become one of those things for your family
as well. But they have art of every size. I'm guessing,
do you have any giant pieces this year?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, of all the five thousand dollars pieces five feet
by four feet painting, So that's that's kind of big.
But yes, it's actually when you were talking about that
for kids, new artists this year, and she has these
very whimsical paintings of robots doing yep, very fun things.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Well, I already perused the website at Affordable Arts Festival
dot com, and I put a link to it on
the blog today so people can go and get a
little taste of the artists that will be there, knowing
that everything that you're seeing on the website is not everything.
It is just a kind of a little snippet, maybe
one sample of what that artist is bringing to the table.
But strategy wise, maybe you can focus on the artists
(04:50):
you want, and then you have the map in front
of you and you can go right to their booth
as soon as it opens or as soon as you
get there to see if you can get the piece
that you want.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And the other thing. To keep it mind, we started
this a few years ago. A lot of the artists
at eleven o'clock will bring out a deal or maybe
multiple deals. It's up to them to do whatever, And
so things that no one has seen yet come out
at eleven o'clock so that people that did show up
kind of late at least have a shot at some
(05:19):
pieces that no one else has seen yet. And so
you're just listening when we open the gates at nine o'clock.
We have the air horn at eleven o'clock if you
hear that, when you hear the air hoorn again, that
means the eleven o'clock deals are out.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
All right, It's all happening this Sunday. Gates open at
nine am. It goes until three pm. But I'm just
going to be honest, like you're going to be picking
over the leftovers if you get there at two o'clock.
That's just the way it is. You're just going to
get this.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
It will get a better deal yet.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Maybe, but you're getting a better deal on the leftovers.
But good thing artists subjective, right, So what somebody else
may have left behind? Maybe the piece that you absolutely love.
How much your tickets and how can people get them?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Jen? It's twelve dollars as usual and the other thing
too real quick on the tickets at twelve dollars, that's
where we're raising the money. We've raised over three hundred
and twenty thousand for the scholarship fund at the ACC,
so we've done well now. But tickets are on the
website also the Affordable Arts Festival dot com. There's a
(06:20):
button right there on the home page that say buy tickets.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I have to ask this question, Jim, because I've been
interviewing you for all these years, and the tickets have
always been twelve dollars.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Is there any cheaper? But a long time ago we
I mean twelve.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Nobody would blame you if you went up to fifteen.
I'm just throwing that out there. I'm just saying nobody
would be mad at you if you went up to
fifteen and made more money. I'm just throwing it's just
an idea.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
You can. They will. They yelled at me when I
moved it up to ten, and then when I moved
it to twelve, people said that's it. I'm done with you.
I'm like, okay, well I'm done with you too.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
But yeah, people keep showing up every single year because
it's a great art festival. Yeah, well, Jim, get cracking.
I'll let you go finish all your hard work. I
may see you this weekend. I think I am going
to come down this weekend, even though I have been
told repeatedly by my husband that I have no more
raw art space. So we'll have to see how that goes.
But I know that you're gonna have a great crowd
as usual down there at the Arapaho Community College campus.
(07:20):
Let's to be clear on south Stanta Fe.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Drive stay yeah, exactly all right, yes, if you do
come down, please give me a call.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I sure will. That's Jim Delutas with the Affordable Arts
Festival Affordable Arts. Let me make sure I got that
right Affordable Arts Festival dot com. Jim, I appreciate your
time as always my friend.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
All right, thank you very much, Thank you, Jim,
Do something beautiful for yourself and if you're looking for
a little artwork, maybe to freshen up what you've got
in your home. What a great opportunity I have for
you this weekend and joining me now to talk about
the Affordable Arts Festival. It's Jim delutis hi Jim? How
you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm doing well? How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I am doing just fine. I know this is the
time of the week where it's get to be the
rubber meets the road. But you're not in the day
to day anymore, are you. You're just the pretty face,
the arm candy that talks about the Affordable Arts Festival.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Oh no, I'm I'm no, I'm still in the fox hole.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Oh no, I thought you were retiring. Did we talk
about that?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Okay, okay, I'm not shoving you out the door yet.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I I thought we had the conversation because I realized
this is our fourteenth time discussing the Arts festival, and
that's how many years have gone by since I started it.
Then toly Cat like three years ago.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
That's fantastic, That's absolutely fantastic. Let's talk about what this
Affordable Arts festill is all about. First of all, what
are we raising money.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
For, Well, we're raising money for a rapid Hoo Community
College foundation for scholarships. And that's where the event happens
is on the campus there, and the money's raised strictly
from the twelve dollars admission fee. The artists do their
job by lowering the prices tremendously and getting people excited
(01:26):
about buying art. And this year we're one hundred and
fifty dollars or less. People can get all sorts of
wonderful things. That are our best deal for this year
is a five thousand dollars painting for one fifty.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Oh that's fantastic. Now here's the best part. Everybody shows
up Saturday morning. Everybody gets there early. You stand in
line with everybody else, You have coffee, maybe we get
a snack for yourself, and then the stampede starts. At
what time? What time do you gates open?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Well, let me just correct one thing. Sunday morning will
be it's a Saturday, it's going to be a long
Oh yes, I'm sorry about that. But yeah, so Sunday morning,
the people, hardcore people are in the line about five am.
But you're still good coming, you know, seven seven thirty. Yeah,
(02:15):
you're still getting pretty close to the front. The gates
open at nine o'clock. It runs from nine till three,
so it's a nearly six hour show, and but a
whole lot of art gets sold in those six hours. Well, I.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Love this event because you can find something for everyone,
and that's one of one of the things I want
to get across. Well, I hate going to an art
show where everything kind of looks the same, right, and
the artists are very similar and they don't have a
lot of variety. You guys have every kind of art.
Tell me a little bit about the artists that are
going to be there this year.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Well, we have one hundred and sixty artists and once again,
you know, they're coming in from about twenty two different
states to do this because this past year number one
in the country and so we're drawing attention here. But
the artwork is you know, kind of let you see
when you go to the art shows, except this time
(03:11):
that you can afford it. But you know, we have
a painting, and we have glass, and we have jewelry
and metal and sculpture and well, you know, just everything
you've seen, only you haven't seen those price tags before.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
No, not at all. And one of the things that
I that I want to talk about and I think
about it every year that I go to the art
show and then I see this artwork and then I'm like, dang,
why didn't I mention that you always have a really
good selection of artwork that would be perfect for a
baby's room or a kid's room. And that may seem
like a weird thing to point out, but you know,
in my husband's family, they have paintings that have hung
(03:47):
in every kid's bedrooms. Right, they become kind of a
family tradition. And if you are you got little kids,
you got it, you're about to have a baby, what
a great opportunity to come out and find something fun
that can become one of those things for your family
as well. But they have art of every size. I'm guessing,
do you have any giant pieces this year?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, of all the five thousand dollars pieces five feet
by four feet painting, So that's that's kind of big.
But yes, it's actually when you were talking about that
for kids, new artists this year, and she has these
very whimsical paintings of robots doing yep, very fun things.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Well, I already perused the website at Affordable Arts Festival
dot com, and I put a link to it on
the blog today so people can go and get a
little taste of the artists that will be there, knowing
that everything that you're seeing on the website is not everything.
It is just a kind of a little snippet, maybe
one sample of what that artist is bringing to the table.
But strategy wise, maybe you can focus on the artists
(04:50):
you want, and then you have the map in front
of you and you can go right to their booth
as soon as it opens or as soon as you
get there to see if you can get the piece
that you want.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And the other thing. To keep it mind, we started
this a few years ago. A lot of the artists
at eleven o'clock will bring out a deal or maybe
multiple deals. It's up to them to do whatever, And
so things that no one has seen yet come out
at eleven o'clock so that people that did show up
kind of late at least have a shot at some
(05:19):
pieces that no one else has seen yet. And so
you're just listening when we open the gates at nine o'clock.
We have the air horn at eleven o'clock if you
hear that, when you hear the air hoorn again, that
means the eleven o'clock deals are out.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
All right, It's all happening this Sunday. Gates open at
nine am. It goes until three pm. But I'm just
going to be honest, like you're going to be picking
over the leftovers if you get there at two o'clock.
That's just the way it is. You're just going to
get this.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
It will get a better deal yet.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Maybe, but you're getting a better deal on the leftovers.
But good thing artists subjective, right, So what somebody else
may have left behind? Maybe the piece that you absolutely love.
How much your tickets and how can people get them?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Jen? It's twelve dollars as usual and the other thing
too real quick on the tickets at twelve dollars, that's
where we're raising the money. We've raised over three hundred
and twenty thousand for the scholarship fund at the ACC,
so we've done well now. But tickets are on the
website also the Affordable Arts Festival dot com. There's a
(06:20):
button right there on the home page that say buy tickets.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I have to ask this question, Jim, because I've been
interviewing you for all these years, and the tickets have
always been twelve dollars.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Is there any cheaper? But a long time ago we
I mean twelve.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Nobody would blame you if you went up to fifteen.
I'm just throwing that out there. I'm just saying nobody
would be mad at you if you went up to
fifteen and made more money. I'm just throwing it's just
an idea.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
You can. They will. They yelled at me when I
moved it up to ten, and then when I moved
it to twelve, people said that's it. I'm done with you.
I'm like, okay, well I'm done with you too.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
But yeah, people keep showing up every single year because
it's a great art festival. Yeah, well, Jim, get cracking.
I'll let you go finish all your hard work. I
may see you this weekend. I think I am going
to come down this weekend, even though I have been
told repeatedly by my husband that I have no more
raw art space. So we'll have to see how that goes.
But I know that you're gonna have a great crowd
as usual down there at the Arapaho Community College campus.
(07:20):
Let's to be clear on south Stanta Fe.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Drive stay yeah, exactly all right, yes, if you do
come down, please give me a call.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I sure will. That's Jim Delutas with the Affordable Arts
Festival Affordable Arts. Let me make sure I got that
right Affordable Arts Festival dot com. Jim, I appreciate your
time as always my friend.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
All right, thank you very much, Thank you, Jim,
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