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Fairhope Arts & Crafts
2014
Patron
Award
Program
There are many ways Arts & Crafts Festival participants are honored, including the Awards Dinner, where more than $14,500 in prize money is given to the best of the best. However, the best honor they receive is when visitors to the festival purchase their works. The Patron Award Program allows businesses or individuals to further honor their favorite artists and craftsmen by committing to purchasing at least $100 worth of arts or crafts from one vendor. When those patrons visit the festival, they will drop by the Chamber office in Fairhope and pick up a ribbon to be placed on their chosen vendor’s booth and a placard bearing their own name or the name of a business, which is also be placed at the vendor’s booth. Patrons may purchase works from any vendor they choose. All the money goes directly to the artist. When more patrons commit, more money is guaranteed to be spent at the festival. “Each year we have about 50 patrons who commit to purchase $100 worth of work,” said Liz Roberts, director of Tourism and Special Events for the ESCoC. “It is such a wonderful way to honor our participant’s talents. The only cost involved is the purchase of the works, which becomes the property of the patron.” For more information on how to signup to be a patron for next year’s festival, contact the Chamber at 251-621-8222.
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Patrons2014 Kim Aldridge
Aldridge Mechanical LLC
Deanna Auner
Homestead Village
Vickie Bailey
The Happy Olive
Elizabeth Jennings Ricky Lewis Holly Morgan Rick & Cathy Myers Dennis Nicholson
Darrelyn Bender
Papa’s Pizza
Louie & Barbara Blaze Jack Burrell
Baldwin County Sewer Service
Vicky Cook
Carter Brooke Designs
Vicky Nix Cook
Roberts Brothers Eastern Shore
ESCC
City of Fairhope, Council President BC Alliance for Arts Education
Cambell Noonan
Larry & Jackie Pate Brenda Pisarkiewicz Mickie Russell
Sweet Pickins – The George Clayton Childhood Cancer Foundation
William & Lori Stitt
Eastern Shore Magazine Jan Endfinger
Elizabeth Stone
Alisa Falkner
Hy-Grade Valve, Inc.
Jennifer Fidler
Victor and Lee Teumer
Willy T’s Restaurant
Bill & Cynthia Tunnell
Oliver & Kathy Gilmore Mike Hamm
USS Alabama
Sally Wagner
Greers
Falkner Landscape Inc.
Coldwell Banker Reehl Properties
Christina Hill
Old 27 Grill
Centennial Bank
Lee Teumer Lee Teumer
Hartmann, Blackmon and Kilgore, P.C.
Hampton Inn Fairhope-Mobile Bay
Bike Valet A bicycle valet station will be available at this year’s Fairhope Arts & Craft Festival. This free service is offered to any cyclist who wants to visit the festival by bike. The City of Fairhope’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee and the Baldwin County Trailblazers are working together to organize this free and secure bicycle parking area. The Bike Valet area will be located adjacent to the handicapped parking area off North Bancroft Street and behind the Fairhope Museum. Volunteers will check in and oversee the bicycle parking area for the festival weekend. Both groups hope the valet station will offer visitors a safe and convenient place to keep their bikes while they enjoy the festival. The station will be open each day of the festival during normal festival hours. Volunteers that are interested in helping manage the station are encouraged to contact the Trailblazers at slowbicyclesocietyes@gmail.com.