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Sage Art Market returns for 7th year

BY ALEX GALLAGHER Progress Staff Writer

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lthough last year’s Arizona Sage Art Market was scaled down and spread about the Holland Center, a new format evolved that has changed how it will operate moving forward.

As social distancing measures forced events to have more between them, the Arizona Sage Art Market had its vendors operate both inside and outside the Holland Center.

“Last year was the first year that we did a hybrid of indoor and outdoor where we drastically spaced and limited the number of tables inside and moved quite a few outside,” said Jennifer Rosvall, the center’s executive director. “It was smaller than we had hoped for but everyone loved it and we thought ‘let’s try it again this year to see

After finding success with hosting the market indoors and outdoors last year, the Arizona Sage Art Market plans to keep the format moving forward. (Special to the Progress)

how it goes.’ So far, we have a lot of interest in it.”

Nearly 50 vendors have been juried and agreed to vend and display their craft during the two-day event next Friday and Saturday, March 18-19.

“There’s so many vendors that absolutely loved this because of the pandemic and being outside,” Rosvall said.

Additionally, most of the artists on hand will be showing and selling their art for the first time at the Sage Art Market.

“The neat thing is that we have so many new artists, which I love,” Rosvall said.

“Over seven years, we’ve had a lot of the same artists who kept coming back, but this year we have seen a very large number of new artists.”

This is partially because of the first Win-

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Sculptures and butterflies mingle in exhibit

BY ALEX GALLAGHER Progress Staff Writer

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ee Mangulins, executive director of Butterfly Wonderland, was at a restaurant one evening over the summer and overheard a couple chatting about a sculptor’s works they had just seen.

Intrigued, Mangulins continued to eavesdrop until he caught the artist’s name. It turned out to be Jim Holbert, who works primarily with clay and metal to create visually stunning pieces.

Mangulins googled Holbert and contacted him for an idea that would merge art and nature.

The result was “Art in Bloom,” a unique exhibition of handmade floral sculptures displayed among thousands of butterflies in Butterfly Wonderland’s conservatory.

Sculptor Jim Holbert shows off one the floral sculpture pieces he made for a special exhibit at the Arizona Butterfly Wonderland Conservatory as part of their “Art in Bloom” exhibition. (David Minton/Progress Staff Photographer)

Holbert admits the job was easy for him to take as he knew this would be a great opportunity to gain exposure for his art.

“For any artist who puts their work out there, the sheer number of people looking at the work is the key,” he said. “Here, I have an automatic audience of people coming to see the butterflies. It was a great opportunity to do that.”

After agreeing to work with Mangulins, Holbert consulted entomologist Derek Kellogg to map out locations for his sculptures – and quickly discovered this would be a tall order to fill.

“From there I met Derek and we started to map out locations,” Holbert said. “The challenge then became how to take what I was doing and make it fit in this place.”

Holbert began bringing prototypes to

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