2nd Annual Clara Brierly Festival of the Arts
The Clara Brierly Festival of the Arts is a Chautauqua (a kind of traveling, tent- show which used to move across America in the late 1800s and early 1900s) type annual celebration of all forms of art held in the heart of downtown Peculiar, Missouri - a worthwhile twenty minute drive from Kansas City, Missouri or Johnson County, Kansas. Admission is free. There will be a staffed welcome booth for attendees and participating artists, performers and food vendors.
There are many ways to experience the festival whether it be to sell your art in a booth, take or teach a workshop, shop, eat, drink, enjoy the many forms of entertainment located at our Jam Tent or Performance Art Stage. Festival T-shirts, bags and much more can be purchased at our Welcome Booth. You will also be able to view the evolving public art walk from this location.
NEW THIS YEAR - We're adding a talent show on Friday night (see below for application) with prize money awarded in Amateur, Professional and Most Peculiar categories. Talent must be family friendly. There are only 24 slots so please sign up early to save your performance spot. Also new this year is the 5K run walk for the art walk (sign up via link below). This annual 5K will help to purchase new pieces of public art for the public art walk downtown as well as help maintain the current pieces.
Open air location will be the on Broadway Street east of Main Street/C Hwy. We have an exciting mix of artists to feed your eyes and food vendor booths to feed your tummy. There is a "jam session" tent where musicians will gather to jam and attendees will be invited to bring lawn chairs and sit in the warm night, watch the lightning bugs and listen to the music. Friday is a free-for-all-campfire kind of night. Musicians are invited to join us around 7:00 to jam together and sing/play the songs they want to sing. Requests from the crowd are encouraged and singing along is one step short of mandatory (toe tapping is mandatory!). Saturday is Bluegrass - need I say more? Bluegrass pickin' starts at 3 pm (earlier if you're so inclined) and goes until 10 pm. It's a big tent - bring your bluegrass friends. Enjoy the evening air, the "back up band" of spring peepers and the tunes. Pickers - you are invited to this tent set up just for you near the beer tent and away from the generators.
There will be diverse stage performance art (access stage schedule below). The performers will cross the age spectrum, will test the definition of eclectic and will be sure to make you smile, engage and be glad you came to the festival! The talent contest will be held on Friday night from 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm. Come watch the talent, bring your lawn chair and settle in. All stage performances are free to the public.
"Get your art on" by participating in the art demonstrations and workshops held throughout the festival. We are excited to involve - submerse even - those attending the festival in the art experience. You don't have to see yourself as an artist to come and have fun with us! Please access the schedule and class descriptions below and pick all those you want to attend. While it is okay to sign up the day of the workshop, space is limited and recommend early sign up to make sure you have a space. The young and young at heart are invited to chalk art the streets and sidewalks - get your chalk at the Welcome Tent and get the hand wipes to clean up when you take you the chalk back!
Festival hours of operation will be Friday June 11, 2010 from 5 pm - 10 pm ; Saturday June 12, 2010 from 10 am - 10 pm and Sunday June 13, 2009 from 7:30 am - 4 pm - 1st Annual Run Walk for the Art Walk takes off at 7:30, awards at 8:45, meet and greet the artists in their booths, talk about their art and learn about what they do from 9-12. The festival is named for Clara Brierly, a Peculiar artist whose form of expression was oil painting. While her subject matter was traditional, the surfaces upon which she painted put her in squarely in the outsider artist camp. Miss Clara, as everyone who knew her called her, lived and painted in Peculiar for the greater part of the 20th century. A book and DVD about Miss Clara will be available for purchase at the Welcome Tent during the festival and a book signing by those who told the stories in the book will be held on Saturday from 1 pm - 2 pm in the Workshop Tent.
Questions - contact us.
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Financial assistance for this project has been provided by the Missouri Association of Community Arts Agencies and the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency, with Challenge America funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, who believes that a great nation deserves great art.
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