Omaha Summer Arts Festival

The Omaha Summer Arts Festival is this weekend. We've never attended, but decided to drive down to see what the vendors had to offer. It's held each summer in Downtown Omaha. This is similar to the St. James Art Fair that is held in Louisville, KY each fall. I'm sure many communities have something similar. We were quite disappointed. It was an eclectic mix of a lot of crap that wasn't really worth our time. We walked through a couple of times but didn't really see much of anything that sparked our interest. My wife did see some fruit/food paintings that were interesting. But, the prices were out of reach. An 11x17 painting of a bowl of fruit was about $500. My daughter just attended an art class this past week. She painted a beautiful 11x17 canvas of a beautiful flower. I'd much rather frame and hang that than pay thoses types of prices for a piece of common art.