LIFEST Y LES AN ADVERTISING SECTION OF EVERGREEN NEWSPAPERS | VOL. 13 ISSUE 8 • AUGUST 2021
Evergreen’s Arts Fests are back!
E.A.A. and C.A.E. are teaming up for a week of A.R.T. and F.U.N.
Artists from around the state and the nation will participate in CAE’s 41st Annual Summerfest at Buchanan Park.
As always, Summerfest will offer the younger set plenty of artful entertainments.
Cool refreshment will be on tap at Summerfest’s Cocktail & Beer Garden.
By Stephen Knapp For Mountain Homes & Lifestyles
If mountain area art lovers will long remember last summer in lonesome shades of gray, they’ll be glad to see that the Evergreen Artists Association and Center for the Arts Evergreen are blending their talents to paint the Summer of 2021 in vivid colors of creativity, variety and community. A baker’s week of beauty begins on the weekend of Aug. 28 as the Evergreen Artists Association (EAA) hosts its 55th Annual Evergreen Fine Arts Festival. Nearly 100 artists from across the nation, the state, and our own pine-clad hills will display their best upon the green grass of Buchanan Field, many of them familiar faces returning to test their creative mettle in a juried event that’s gained impressive national ranking. The free, family-friendly fest will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 28 and 29, and feature peerless works in wood and watercolor, fabric and glass, metal and stone. Folks not yet acquainted with fine art’s infinite forms will find the festival a perfect opportunity
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OF THE MONTH to start their imaginative adventure into a rich world of possibilities, and walk the sun-splashed lanes of intimate tarpaulin shops in the company of cordial guides who know the ground. Feel free to pry, because exhibitors will be more than happy to share the arcane secrets of their inspirations and techniques, and visitors can come away with both a deeper knowledge of their purchase and an enriching personal connection to the person who created it. For seasoned collectors, the Evergreen Fine Art Festival affords one-stop browsing for the best works available in every imaginable medium, and it’s a kiln-fired certainty that anybody who spends a few happy minutes strolling the festival’s endlessly absorbing ways and byways will find the ideal ornament to complete their garden walk or living room wall. As ever, the Evergreen Fine Arts Festival will provide plenty of activities to interest and occupy younger aficionados, the musical arts will be represented live and lively, and
a rich palette of culinary artists including local BBQ wagon Smoke on the Mountains will offer exquisite compositions to suit every palate. Free parking shuttles will run from ample accommodations at Bergen Meadow Elementary School and Evergreen Middle School throughout the event, and paid parking immediately adjacent Bergen Field will benefit local organizations such as the Conifer High School softball team. And, just by dropping by to sample the finest in fine art and spend a few congenial hours in the company of neighbors, you’ll be helping EAA continue its fine tradition of supporting the arts through educational programs and scholarships. “We’re so grateful to be able to do this,” smiles festival director and gifted jewelry designer Julie Sims. “It’s been a long time since we’ve been able to get together as a community.” Far too long, most folks would say, which makes it extra-delightful that the tents, treats, tunes and treasures will again spring up from Buchanan Field’s lush turf on
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