Arts & Entertainment
Marion to Hold Annual Arts Festival
Exercise your creative cranial hemisphere on May 19th
“It’s about the art.”
If you are an artist or an art consumer, make a pilgrimage to the 20th Annual tomorrow, from 9am to 5pm in City Square Park. Admission is free.
An expected crowd of 16,000 will walk amongst prolific painters, ceramacists and woodworkers, and then some will run in the new festival half marathon and 5K. Register here.
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Pop a squat on a pottery wheel with guest artists from in Cedar Rapids and create a part of a tile mural installation for Vernon Middle School for the annual participatory public art piece.
Thirteen art students of promise from eight Iowa colleges and universities will have a chance to sell their work at the festival as part of the Emerging Artists Program.
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An army of K-12 students from 24 schools has been working on ceramic bowls that are donated and sold at the festival as part of the Empty Bowl Project. Funds go to local food banks and this particular project has raise more than $67,000 in thirteen years.
The application and entry deadlines have passed for the event, but over fifty artists are expected on Saturday and it is rated one of the 20 Top fine arts events by Art Fair SourceBook, an independent source for navigating 600 top U.S. arts events.