Innovative arts, crafts fair highlights festival’s first weekend
Published 1:30 am Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Sequim Irrigation Festival Innovative Arts and Crafts Fair
What: Arts fair emphasizing reusability, repurposing, recycling
When: May 4-6
Where: Sequim Civic Center Plaza, Cedar Street
For more: See www.facebook.com/Innovative.Arts.and.Crafts.Fair
With the theme of reusability, repurpose and recycling, the Sequim Irrigation Festival Innovative Arts and Crafts Fair comes to the Sequim Civic Center Plaza May 5-6, with a patron preview set during the Sequim First Friday Art Walk on May 4.
This creative community event provides an opportunity for vendors to sell their unique handcrafted wares and for folks to have active engagement with the artists.
Event organizers invite community members to enter creative works or vote for awards during the Innovative Reuse Showcase and Contest. In addition to arts and crafts vendors, the event features food vendors, entertainment on a main stage, demonstrations of sustainable arts and crafts and an opportunity to participate in a hands-on community art project.
Arts and crafts fair hours are: 5-8 p.m. Friday, May 4; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, May 5, and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, May 6.
For the Innovative Reuse Showcase and Contest, participants are encouraged to bring a DIY reuse, recycle, repurpose creations to win prizes. Enter to win in the People’s Choice Awards in four categories: Wearable, Functional, Decorative, and Kids 15 and under. Find details at the IrrigationFestival.com website or contact Kelly at 360-461-3950 or JustAskKelly@olypen.com. Deliver your creations by Friday, May 4, Friday or the morning of Saturday, May 5.
Vendors include: 3D Wood Maps, Aloha Smoothies, Apple Cox, Art to Suit You, Cherokee Beach Creations, Creative Iron Works, LLC, Debbie’s Fun & Affordable Jewelry, DJ’s Pens, Enanimals, Fairview Lake Studios, Fresh Hats – Love on Your Head, Friday Harbor House of Jerky, Happy Cells Studio, hue are you?, If Found Treasurers, Lil’ Log Cabin Creations, Lisa’s Designs, Mickey’s Unique Designs, Moments in Time and Design, Inc, Mystery Bay Coastal Cuisine, New Dungeness Light Station Association, New Dungeness Nursery, Olympic Peninsula Authors, OPT Signs, Paperwings Studio, Phoenixx Fibers, Rock and Gem Liaisons, Sharray Originals, The Chart Artist, The Jake Hose Company, The Shepherd’s Fold, Transister Sister, Sassy Glass, Sequim Bee Farm, Sequim High School Class of 2019, Sequim Valley Products, Snow Creek Leather, Straus Bavarian Nuts, Uniquely Designed Jewelry, Vicki Wickell Watercolors, Volunteers in Medicine of the Olympics, Warpath Woodworks, Welfare for Animals Guild (WAG), and Whidbey Island Fudge Company.
Co-directors of the Innovative Arts and Crafts Fair are Jean Wyatt and Renne Emiko Brock. Sponsors include Castell Insurance, Kitsap Bank, Home Instead, Evergreen Home Loans, Coastal Farm & Ranch, and Shawnna Rigg & Marcus Oden, RE/MAX Prime.
Find the event on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Innovative.Arts.and.Crafts.Fair/.
The fair schedule includes:
Demonstrations
• Saturday, May 5
10 a.m.-noon — C.J. Kapetan, “Wood Burning Art”
12:30-2:30 p.m. — Genaveve Starr, “Recycling product packaging into containers for art”
3-5 p.m. — Driftwood sculpting by the Olympic Driftwood Sculptors
• Sunday, May 6
11 a.m.-1 p.m.— Frances Rice, “Sock Pet Friends”
1-3 p.m. — Brad Griffith of Sequim Community Makerspace, “The Toy Makers Teacher”
Community Creativity Activity
• May 5-6
10 a.m.-4 p.m. — Color small pieces of the 2018 Irrigation Festival logo to make a giant logo mural that will be on display at Coastal Farm & Ranch
Entertainment
• Saturday, May 5
9:30 am Kids Parade Awards
9:45-10:00 a.m. Operetta performance – “How to Succeed in Business”
10-10:50 am Olympic Peninsula Men’s Chorus
11-11:50 am Olympic Mountain Cloggers
12-1:50 pm Jim Basnight
2-3:50 pm Caribe Steel Band
4-4:50 pm Locos Only
Sunday, May 6
10 a.m.-12:50 p.m. — Jim Basnight Solo
1-2:50 p.m. — Tyme Pieces
3-3:50 p.m. — Sequim High School Jazz Ensemble
