Every Arts festival ever. A picture thread

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― DAVE, for #1 Hits of yesterday and today! (dave225.3), Saturday, 3 June 2006 20:23 (twenty years ago)

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― Abbott (Abbott), Saturday, 3 June 2006 22:13 (twenty years ago)

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― Abbott (Abbott), Saturday, 3 June 2006 22:14 (twenty years ago)

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Maybe these things just show up around here.

― Abbott (Abbott), Saturday, 3 June 2006 22:16 (twenty years ago)

This could also be true of the ubiquity of Bev Doolittle prints, aka Highlights magazine 'can you find the hidden faces' for offices, homes and ski lodges.

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― Abbott (Abbott), Saturday, 3 June 2006 22:21 (twenty years ago)

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― DAVE, for #1 Hits of yesterday and today! (dave225.3), Sunday, 4 June 2006 00:13 (twenty years ago)

sad.

i grew up at arts festivals because my dad is a potter and used to do 4 or 5 of them a year. in the '70s, a lot of the high-profile festivals were very selective (some of them still are), and the overall quality of stuff that got in was pretty high. it was that whole post-hippy arts/crafts scene, and people who participated as either vendors or patrons took it fairly seriously. then in the '80s a wider range of stuff started getting in, and some of the festivals eventually just became glorified street fairs, full of kitsch and fried dough. there are still good arts festivals out there, but there hasn't quite been a new generation of craftspeople to pick up from people my dad's age and older. so the slots have been filled by t-shirt vendors, face painters, people selling potpourri rag dolls and whatever.

but at their best, those things were a magic little world, especially for a kid.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 4 June 2006 00:21 (twenty years ago)

I'm not quite sure what this "arts festival" thing you're all talking about is... for me, this is an arts festival:

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 4 June 2006 00:44 (twenty years ago)

i think that there is something really important missing, the revival of all sorts of crafts, for all sorts of r easons in the late 70s, in high art and in lo art were the beginning of a kind of heriachal dismantling, and sometimes people managed to get thru (betty woodruff) but now its a question of raising up rather then an even playing feild, and i think that by making craft fairs kitsch, gypsys right in nothing thats part of it

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 4 June 2006 00:51 (twenty years ago)

I was just at one yesterday morning, only because I had an hour to kill - and I couldn't even spend a whole hour there. There were maybe four stalls where the artists were doing something unique, and only two of them were interesting to me. I don't think they were always that way. But as I walked along, i pondered the meaning of the word 'snob' - because I felt like one. The art was really dull, there were fat people everwhere eating corn dogs, and they all fit together nicely. And I though, "I have no use for any of this anymore." The best artwork I saw was the student show at the Cultural Arts Center. ...but I guess if you're looking for shit to put on your walls and you don't care what it is - as long as it's neat - then an arts fair is cheaper than a gallery, so maybe it serves that purpose. I just found the level of creativity to be really uninspiring/ed.

― DAVE, for #1 Hits of yesterday and today! (dave225.3), Sunday, 4 June 2006 10:47 (twenty years ago)

I went to the Old POrt festival in Portland today but it was just fried food and useless booths liek a verizon booth where you can get a keychain. Utterly pointless unless you love frottage

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Sunday, 4 June 2006 21:26 (twenty years ago)

Momus OTM. where I come we call these things "flea markets".

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 4 June 2006 21:39 (twenty years ago)

well there's been a conflation, like i said. but there are still some good ones (or at least where there's a higher percentage of actual arts/crafts). like this one at my alma mater. (i haven't been for years, but the slate of craftspeople looks at least well-stocked.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 4 June 2006 21:59 (twenty years ago)

it's a US thing I suspect

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 5 June 2006 00:15 (twenty years ago)

flea markets are generally a real improvement on arts festivals, at least there you can find interesting old stuff cheap.

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 5 June 2006 00:24 (twenty years ago)

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― cognitive discodance (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 5 June 2006 00:28 (twenty years ago)

how you can tell it's a flea market instead of an arts fair (i always heard them called fairs) -- MORE OF THESE:

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(why geodes are not approx. 1,000,000,000,000 times more valuable than diamonds i'll never know)

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 5 June 2006 04:03 (twenty years ago)

and these

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― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 5 June 2006 04:39 (twenty years ago)

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― ((((((DOPplur)))n)))u))))tttt (donut), Monday, 5 June 2006 06:00 (twenty years ago)

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― ((((((DOPplur)))n)))u))))tttt (donut), Monday, 5 June 2006 06:03 (twenty years ago)

Oh fuck it.

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Image Google "fremont solstice parade"

If you like nude art bikers, abyssinian tatas, and thespian furries, come to Fremont in Seattle on June 17th and see all of the above and then some. Bring yer kids. (I'm probably going to try to escape Fremont that weekend as normal, possibly the city.)

― ((((((DOPplur)))n)))u))))tttt (donut), Monday, 5 June 2006 06:05 (twenty years ago)

I went to this yesterday, it was small but neat.
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― teeny (teeny), Monday, 5 June 2006 12:11 (twenty years ago)

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