This year’s highlights:

• KidZone offers a variety of make-and-take projects for the budding artists
• The new Gourmet Gallery will offer locally made food items to take home and enjoy in your kitchen
• For the first time, online advance sale tickets are available at a special price: $8 for everyone by visiting www.sedonaartsfestival.org (Tickets are $9 and $10 at the gate; children 12 and under are free).
• “smART shopper” all-access passes ($99) include admission to both days of the Festival, $50 in Festival Bucks to spend on art, preferred parking, premium restroom facilities and a special Preview Hour on Saturday followed by brunch.  Passes can be purchased online.
• Cost savings generated from the decision not to offer musical entertainment will allow the Sedona Arts Festival to offer even more in scholarship and grant funds.

Forty nine artists are from Arizona cities including Amado, Apache Junction, Arlington, Cave Creek, Chandler, Clarkdale, Dewey, Flagstaff, Gilbert, Glendale, Holbrook, Mesa, Peoria, Phoenix, Prescott, Queen Creek, Rio Rico, Saint David, Scottsdale, Sedona and Tucson.  Other states represented in this year’s field are California, Colorado, New Mexico, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.

For more information, visit www.sedonaartsfestival.org.