The Arts Festival has tons of activities for kids. My kids made beaded bracelets, painted and colored, and glittered to their hearts content. I'll have glitter in my hair for years.
Sunday I returned to the festival with my mom, without kids, to look at the art displays. One artist scuplted in clay, removed the sculpture from the kiln when it was red-hot, and rolled in it ashes. The result was a dark, charred effect that was just beautiful. I could have looked for hours.
Here are the highlights of the weekend:
Gateway Park, on the south side of downtown Des Moines. The park was lined with tents: artist tents filled with the products of some great creativity, vendor tents brimming with tasty and bad for you Fair Food, and community tents for things like the zoo and the performing arts center. I read that more than 1400 artist applied for one of the 166 display tents available, which means next year will be even bigger and better.
Riley's bead bracelet.
Cadence glittering her painted horseshoe.
A mosaic-style recreation of Van Gogh, in ginormous size. Very cool.
Street art in chalk.
This was a very cool stand-alone sculpture the kids loved.
And my personal favorite - Geek Art! Microscope images, tinted in different colors and printed for the nerdy art enthusiast's home (at a hefty price, I might add):
Zucchini pollen in orange.
A dust mite, the hairs in green. This piece was called Nightmare Blanket, which I found quite fitting.
Closeup of a crystal formation, I forget now what type of crystal.
This was the third year my kids have gone to the Arts Festival, but it was the first time for me. I had so much fun! I can't wait until next year.
2 comments:
I would love to have some of that geek art hanging on my walls!
WOW! Man I wish I could have went. That is so neat!
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