Top Tier Talent at Kierland Fine Art & Wine Festival

CW7 Arizona

The second annual Kierland Fine Art & Wine Festival will take place this Saturday, Oct. 28 and Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023, transforming the popular shopping and dining destination Kierland Commons into a bustling hub of creativity. Visitors can stroll and shop the Art Festival from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, while a Wine Garden will welcome guests from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.  More than 100 renowned artists from around the globe will showcase their talents, and guests ages 21 and over will be able to enjoy wine tasting from Arizona top wineries. To learn more or pre-purchase tickets, visit www.kierlandcommons.com/ArtWineFestival.

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00:00 Coming up this week, it is the Kierlin Fine Art and Wine Festival.

00:03 And here with me is Jamal Singh to tell us all about it.

00:06 How are you doing this morning? I'm doing great. How are you?

00:08 This is a really great fine art and wine festival.

00:12 It's been going on now.

00:14 We're really excited for the second annual Kierlin Fine Art and Wine Festival.

00:17 OK, because I know they've had a little different things out before,

00:19 but this one is is definitely one of the best.

00:21 Yeah, this is going to be awesome.

00:23 So let's talk about how this works, because it's art from all over coming in.

00:27 Right, right.

00:28 And with me, I have Crystal and Brooke. Crystal will be talking about art.

00:31 And Brooke is representing the wineries.

00:33 The event is this weekend, Friday and Saturday, October 28th and 29th.

00:37 The festival hours are from 10 to 5.

00:39 And we have over 100 artists, 15 Arizona wineries and live music all day long.

00:46 Oh, my gosh, this is awesome.

00:47 And again, it's going to have some good weather, too.

00:49 So nice walking around weather.

00:51 So the best part about it, too, is that there's no baseball games going on.

00:54 So you can come and watch and enjoy yourself.

00:57 There it is.

00:58 Let's talk, Crystal, about the art, because this is beautiful.

01:01 And this is your mother's work.

01:03 My mother's work. I represent her.

01:05 I've been representing her since I was 15.

01:08 She's Native American from the Hopi tribe, and she has no face on the pieces

01:12 because they represent one people, not just one person.

01:15 And she has been doing art shows for over 12.

01:18 I'm sorry.

01:19 She has been doing over 12 art shows all over the country and all over the nation.

01:24 And what I love about art shows is actually being able to meet the people

01:29 and have the opportunity to learn about your piece that you buy at the art show

01:32 and learn how it was made and why it was made.

01:34 And it gives you more of a connection to the piece.

01:36 Yeah, I love this.

01:37 So and this looks amazing.

01:38 That looks like it's almost like wood, but this is done in bronze.

01:41 She's really well known for her coloring, which is the patina.

01:44 And what it is is actually different combinations of heat and chemicals

01:47 on the bronze.

01:48 So we do a lot of layering to make it look like a stone or wood,

01:52 but it is all bronze. It's all metal.

01:54 This is very beautiful to see.

01:55 And so you'll have the pieces out there for people to purchase.

01:57 There will be tons of different art.

01:59 There's going to be everything from paintings, photography, jewelry,

02:03 mixed media, textiles.

02:04 It's one of the best shows to come to.

02:06 What's the largest piece she's ever done? How tall is this?

02:09 We have a six foot one in the Santa Fe Indian Arts and Culture Museum.

02:13 So, yeah, so I love it.

02:16 This is going to be great.

02:17 And now we're going to switch gears to wine.

02:19 And Brooke, this is great because you get to sip and enjoy art.

02:22 And of course, the more wine you drink, the more you buy, which is really nice.

02:27 This is awesome. You're a local winery located where?

02:30 Our cellar is down in Sonoita, Arizona, but we source grapes

02:35 from two vineyards in Sonoita and one out in Wilcox.

02:39 Yeah. And I noticed that Arizona is getting more and more of like the wine

02:42 places come a little more better than California.

02:44 I don't want to bring that up.

02:45 So let's talk about some of the wines you have here.

02:46 Yeah, we make an orange style Malvasia.

02:50 We do a rosé.

02:51 We do several reds as well as a dessert style port.

02:54 We're celebrating the end of harvest.

02:56 I just got home last night.

02:58 So this is a time for us to come and share our wines that we've been working on

03:02 for the last year to two years with the public and celebrate a fruitful,

03:07 beautiful crush season.

03:09 Yeah. And that's what's great about this is that you're going to be able

03:10 to get up close and talk with the people of the wineries and everything to see.

03:13 And then also learn how about to come visit them.

03:15 Can people do to do you do tours with? Yes.

03:17 So Wilcox Wine Country, there's roughly 14 wineries down in that region.

03:21 It's where the majority of the grapes that go to the different vineyards

03:25 and cellars in our state are sourced from.

03:27 And it's a beautiful part of Arizona.

03:30 Very pretty. Nice.

03:32 How many grapes do you think you picked this year?

03:33 Do you want to? We did roughly 26 tons.

03:36 26 tons. Yes. Wow.

03:38 That's a lot of grapes. Yeah.

03:40 So I had this friend named Lucy and she would stomp the grapes.

03:43 It was kind of funny. Her and her friend.

03:45 It was crazy. It was like, oh, look at them.

03:47 And like then they got into like a whole grape fight.

03:49 It was awesome and everything like that.

03:50 And then she started eating chocolate from, OK, another story like that.

03:53 We do all that.

03:55 This is awesome.

03:56 Jamel, this is great that again, this is this weekend.

03:58 Remind people about tickets and getting information on getting there.

04:01 The event is free, free admission to everyone.

04:05 If you want to take in the wine tastings, you can purchase tickets.

04:09 You could go on Caroline on our website, on the center's website

04:12 to purchase the tickets in advance.

04:14 Or if you decide at the door to purchase your tickets there, you can do it, too.

04:18 But yeah, it's going to be a wonderful weekend.

04:20 And the times again very quickly.

04:22 Yes. The festival is from ten to five both days.

04:25 I love it. There you go.

04:26 So I know we'll see our very own Polish director, Michael Petri, out there

04:29 walking around, sipping wine and buying art.

04:30 So very nice. Yes. Thank you, ladies, for coming in.

04:33 And of course, if you miss that, we got information on AZTV.com.

04:38 So, all right, stick around.

04:39 We got more of the mix coming up right after this.

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