Festival Meadows Sun Valley

For those artists and craft-makers who have recently moved to our valley, or for those who have only recently gotten interested in participating in a craft festival, or for those among you who have meant to send in that application but just procrastinated.....please allow us to point out a small matter.  The 2012 dates for Ketchum Arts Festival are July 13, 14 and 15.  Although July seems faaaaaaar into the distant future, the application period is quickly running out!  As of March 5, the available booths were more than 60% gone, and a flood of applications right before March 15 is expected. Read on to see why you should get that application done today!

The Application Deadline is March 15 postmark. If you are a Blaine County resident (“local”), here's how that application deadline applies to you.  Locals can certainly apply later than March 15 but will not be included in the Festival Guide and will have to pay increased fees. The festival has a set number of booths, so you also run the risk of ending up on the waiting list when you apply close to or after the deadline.  Each year, the festival fills earlier; the 2011 festival was full before the March 15 deadline. (Remember also another perk that locals always receive: no jurying is required!)  Returning locals, if you apply by the deadline and you request the same booth space as last year, then you will be assigned the same space.

To summarize: locals must apply by March 15 postmark for these perks: lower fees, get your old booth back if you want it, get included in the festival guide.  Apply even quicker to also not end up on the wait list.

 If you used to live here in Blaine County, and while you lived here you did participate in Ketchum Arts Festival, you qualify as a “former local” and are subject to pretty much the same rules and deadlines as locals (be sure to read the application for extensive explanations of all this).

If you are applying as a guest artist (must be Idaho resident), please note that March 15 postmark is the absolute cutoff for guest applications. Guest artist applications are juried in mid April. Very few guest artists are accepted each year, based on the number of local artists applying in each medium. Prior participation does not guarantee acceptance.

For questions about the festival itself, the festival rules, the application, the certification of residency, or anything else, please visit www.ketchumartsfestival.com.  There you will be able to download and print all the forms, and also view the festival guides from several previous years.

Ketchum Arts Festival (KAF), a much-anticipated summer celebration of local arts, entertainers, and food, has spotlighted Blaine County artists and craft makers since 1999.  Over the course of those twelve years, the festival has exploded in size and scope and gained a reputation among vendors and shoppers alike as a “must-do” on summer’s busy calendar.

 Application forms and details are now available at www.ketchumartsfestival.com for the July 13-15, 2012 event. For best booth prices and inclusion in the Ketchum Arts Festival Guide, complete applications must be postmarked by March 15, 2012. Local artists are never juried, but will be accepted with a complete application as long as booths are available.  “Local artists” means those who are currently Blaine County residents or those who resided in Blaine County when they previously participated in KAF. Additional fees will apply to applications postmarked after March 15.

 Each year a handful of talented guest artists from other parts of Idaho will be accepted through a jury process, to round out the festival offerings.  (See details on guest artist application at www.ketchumartsfestival.com.) 

 The 2012 Ketchum Arts Festival will be better than ever.  The show does always fill up, so get your application in quickly to avoid the waiting list.

Two series of bridge lessons will begin the first week in January.

“Bridge Basics” is designed for people who played years ago and want to learn modern bidding systems, as well as people who have never played bridge. Classes will be on Wednesdays, starting Jan. 4, from 3 to 5 p.m. in the community room of Our Lady of the Snows Catholic Church, 206 Sun Valley Road, Sun Valley. Cost of the 14-week class is $250.

“Polishing the Basics” is designed for people who have completed the basic course and want to continue to refine their skills. Topics will range from defense to major suit raises to Jacoby transfer bids. Classes will meet on Fridays, beginning Jan. 4, from 3 to 5 p.m., also at Our Lady of the Snows. Cost is $25 per class, or $100 for five classes.

Instructors are Jo Murray and Chuck Abramo, both certified as teachers by the American Contract Bridge League. To register, send an email to jo@sunvalleybridge.com or call 720-1501. Additional details about the classes, as well as a new weekly game for less experienced players, are at www.sunvalleybridge.com. 

Classes are presented in cooperation with the American Contract Bridge League and the Bridge Club of the Wood River. The Bridge Club of the Wood River holds weekly duplicate games. Details are at www.woodriverbridge.com.

Like so many of us, Dianne and Elmer Taylor fell in love with the Wood River

 

Valley the first time they visited.  That was back in 1986 when Elmer was invited here to

 

do a three week workshop for the Sun Valley Center for the Arts.  “I can remember

 

driving over the old railroad bridge south of town and seeing a panorama of mountains up

 

close and in the distance, says Dianne.  I felt like I was coming home. Elmer looked over

 

at me and said ‘This is it!’  We’d been looking for a place to retire eventually and open a

 

small pottery shop.  We knew we had found it.” The Taylors purchased a small log cabin

 

on Washington Avenue before they left to return to Texas.

 

For the next sixteen years, the Taylors rented the cabin during the school year and

 

returned every summer to live in it and make pots in a building in the back yard that they

 

converted into a studio.  When they weren’t here, the Taylors were in Texas teaching at

 

the University of North Texas, near Dallas.  Dianne taught Art History, and Elmer taught

 

(and still teaches) Ceramics.  In 2002, Dianne took early retirement to move to Ketchum

 

full time and open Taylormade Pottery in the same cabin on Washington Ave., where

 

they live.  Elmer still teaches, coming to Ketchum in the summers and during other

 

school vacations.  Dianne began teaching Ceramics part time at the College of Southern

 

Idaho Blaine County Center in 2009.  She also manages Taylormade Pottery.

 

            Both Taylors have been making pots since the 1960’s. After Elmer graduated

 

from Arizona State with a Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics, he went to England to

 

apprentice with English Master Potter Michael Leach, son of Bernard Leach.  (Bernard is

 

credited with reviving Studio Pottery, making functional pottery in a small studio setting,

Music Schedule for Ketchum Arts Festival

The entertainment is all free, so grab your honey and mosey down the bike path to the Festival Meadows on Sun Valley Road.

 Friday July 8
12-1 Spare Change 
1:30-2:30 The Mighty Shims
3:00-4:00 Dewey, Pickette, & Howe
4:30-6:00 Kim Stocking Trio

Saturday July 9
12-1:00 Rick Hoel
1:30-3:00 Paul Tillotson Trio
3:30-4:30 Mike White
5:00-6:00 Ted Macklin

Sunday July 10
12:00-1:00 Jimmy Mitchell
1:30-3:00 Paul Tillotson Trio
3:00-4:00 King Louise
4:00-5:00 Kim Stocking Trio

Photo credit: Tobin Jutte

This year marks the debut of the Kids’ Activity Tent at Ketchum Arts Festival.  From 10AM-4PM each day, art activities, frivolity, and fabulous miscellany will entertain the young ones, and give the older folks a chance to enjoy other festival offerings.  The Kids’ Activity Tent, or KAT, offers painting, puppets, bubbles, hooping, collaging, stories, face painting, and even more! There’ll be a special activity timetable posted by the tent, so you can plan your shopping time. 

This free, fun but educational, KAT is available to anyone with a cell phone on site.  Children 4 and up can be signed in and left, and younger ones may stay and play if someone (at least fifteen years old) stays with them.  KAT grew out of Ketchum Arts Festival’s desire to give back to the valley community in appreciation for eleven years of the community’s whole-hearted support of art and our arts festival in particular. 

Your family and friends will love lazing in the shade under the big yellow striped tent, grooving to the local musicians, and lunching on mouth-watering BBQ, street tacos, and burgers from local chefs. Sip a fresh-blended coffee smoothie or savor a microbrew from Sun Valley Brewery as the sun drops towards Baldy.  Don’t worry; if you don’t shop enough to work off the calories, you can dance them off.  Every year the Festival brings lots of great music, and this year as a special treat, Paul Tillotson Trio will play from 1-2:30PM both Saturday and Sunday.  Check the schedule by the stage for show-times of other favorites like Kim Stocking Band and The Mighty Shims.

Mark your calendar to spend a few hours at the Ketchum Arts Festival on Friday, Saturday and Sunday July 8-10, 2011 (10AM-6PM daily).  For more information, a look at the Festival Guide with all the artists, and a map, visit www.ketchumartsfestival.com.

This year marks the debut of the Kids’ Activity Tent at Ketchum Arts Festival.  From 10AM-4PM each day, art activities, frivolity, and fabulous miscellany will entertain the young ones, and give the older folks a chance to enjoy other festival offerings.  The Kids’ Activity Tent, or KAT, offers painting, puppets, bubbles, hooping, collaging, stories, face painting, and even more! There’ll be a special activity timetable posted by the tent, so you can plan your shopping time. 

This free, fun but educational, KAT is available to anyone with a cell phone on site.  Children 4 and up can be signed in and left, and younger ones may stay and play if someone (at least fifteen years old) stays with them.  KAT grew out of Ketchum Arts Festival’s desire to give back to the valley community in appreciation for eleven years of the community’s whole-hearted support of art and our arts festival in particular. 

Your family and friends will love lazing in the shade under the big yellow striped tent, grooving to the local musicians, and lunching on mouth-watering BBQ, street tacos, and burgers from local chefs. Sip a fresh-blended coffee smoothie or savor a microbrew from Sun Valley Brewery as the sun drops towards Baldy.  Don’t worry; if you don’t shop enough to work off the calories, you can dance them off.  Every year the Festival brings lots of great music, and this year as a special treat, Paul Tillotson Trio will play from 1-2:30PM both Saturday and Sunday.  Check the schedule by the stage for show-times of other favorites like Kim Stocking Band and The Mighty Shims.

Mark your calendar to spend a few hours at the Ketchum Arts Festival on Friday, Saturday and Sunday July 8-10, 2011 (10AM-6PM daily).  For more information, a look at the Festival Guide with all the artists, and a map, visit www.ketchumartsfestival.com.

My passion for BBQ started when I was a teenager and carried on throughout my life, all the while trying to perfect cooking techniques and BBQ sauces. In my early twenties I became a white water river guide and began learning about the various techniques used in wilderness cooking using Dutch Ovens, campfires and grills. Over the many years of my career as a guide I became more accomplished with these skills, and eventually became the food service manager for a number of river companies in California and Japan, which then allowed me to further experiment with this art.

Now, with my custom built BBQ grill/smoker, I am able to create many types of delicious foods in various forms. In 2006 I entered my first BBQ contest and won the top prize in the poultry category. Last year I participated in another contest and won several categories as well as the overall grand prize. This year I am looking forward to providing more opportunities for the public to try my fare at the Ketchum Arts Festival, the Shakedown Concert, the Sawtooth Music Festival and the Northern Rockies Folk Festival to name a few. Please call me to schedule your private party!

Tom Abbott, 208-720-8391.

Artist Jennifer Bellinger has lived in Ketchum for over 30 years and is well known in the valley for her colorful oil paintings of still life, animals and landscapes. She has a beautiful studio next to her historic log home in Ketchum that she shares with husband, Gary (long time ski instructor for Sun Valley Company) and her pug, “Jack”.

Bellinger works in oil on canvas or panel and calls her work Contemporary Realism because while realistic in style her compositions are bold and non-traditional. She uses a direct method of applying the paint for the under-painting. When the under-painting is dry to the touch she  paints glazes, scumbles; adding or subtracting paint until she achieves the desired depth of color and surface texture that bring such richness to her paintings.

 Jennifer recently took part in the 2011 Celebration of Fine Art, a 10 week juried show in Scottsdale, AZ.  One hundred artists from around the USA arrive in mid January to create a working studio and exhibit space where art lovers and collectors can meet and watch the artists at work. “It was an amazing experience; to have focused time for uninterrupted work…I learned that I am quite a fast painter!”

Bellinger was intrigued with the Arizona desert and the intense light and shadows, “so different from our light here in the mountains. She began a new series called, “Desert Botanicals” that fall under the category she refers to as “garden still life”. I like to create compositions that bring objects close up to the viewer, like a small corner of a garden...not the whole garden scene…an intimate view. “

 Jennifer will be exhibiting many of her oil new paintings, including “Desert Botanicals” at the Ketchum Arts Festival July 8,9,10.  Her Ketchum Studio is open by appointment by calling 726-4823 and you can visit her web site www.JenniferBellingerFineArt.com for information on upcoming summer/fall oil painting workshops or private lessons.

Contact information:

JBellingerart@AOL.com

www.JenniferBellingerFineArt.com

208-720-8851

208-726-4823

This year marks the debut of the Kids’ Activity Tent at Ketchum Arts Festival. From 10AM-4PM each day, art activities, frivolity, and fabulous miscellany will entertain the young ones, and give the older folks a chance to enjoy other festival offerings. The Kids’ Activity Tent, or KAT, offers painting, puppets, bubbles, hooping, collaging, stories, face painting, and even more! There’ll be a special activity timetable posted by the tent, so you can plan your shopping time. This free, fun but educational, KAT is available to anyone with a cell phone on site. Children 4 and up can be signed in and left, and younger ones may stay and play if someone (at least fifteen years old) stays with them. KAT grew out of Ketchum Arts Festival’s desire to give back to the valley community in appreciation for eleven years of the community’s whole-hearted support of art and our arts festival in particular. Your family and friends will love lazing in the shade under the big yellow striped tent, grooving to the local musicians, and lunching on mouth-watering BBQ, street tacos, and burgers from local chefs. Sip a fresh-blended coffee smoothie or savor a microbrew from Sun Valley Brewery as the sun drops towards Baldy. Don’t worry; if you don’t shop enough to work off the calories, you can dance them off. Every year the Festival brings lots of great music, and this year as a special treat, Paul Tillotson Trio will play from 1-2:30PM both Saturday and Sunday. Check the schedule by the stage for show-times of other favorites like Kim Stocking Band and The Mighty Shims. Mark your calendar to spend a few hours at the Ketchum Arts Festival on Friday, Saturday and Sunday July 8-10, 2011 (10AM-6PM daily). For more information, a look at the Festival Guide with all the artists, and a map, visit www.ketchumartsfestival.com.

Sharon Payne Bolton found Ketchum Idaho by chance over twenty years ago. Although she was raised in California she believes she has grown up in Ketchum.  Making art just sort of slipped into Payne-Bolton’s life.  She has always been more fascinated with artists, than with art.  Ketchum is full of artists of all types and when the Ketchum Arts Festival (KAF) was founded in 1999, it opened the door for Sharon.  The Ketchum Arts Festival was formed for someone exactly like Payne Bolton.  KAF has continued to provide Sharon with the opportunity to create and grow as an artist.

 It did take a year or two for Payne-Bolton to feel she was ready to apply and show at KAF.  Payne Bolton says that once she raised the curtain on her first booth her first year, the magic started.  Her art was received with such enthusiasm; she was encouraged to continue her work. Last year, when Payne Bolton was awarded the Best Booth Award, she knew that KAF really did provide a venue for her ever expanding growth as an artist.  Last year, one of Payne Bolton’s larger paintings went to The Triple Creek Ranch in Darby Montana, the ranch is known for their collection of fine American Art, including Remington and Russell.

 Payne-Bolton tends to gravitate towards mediums that are handy at the moment.  Sharon is a mixed media artist that continues to search for yet another tool to articulate her art.  Sharon has studios in Ketchum and in the Bay Area of California and has grown into a full time working artist.

 This year at KAF, Sharon will show many of her ‘Cabinets of Curiosities’, her acclaimed Coffee Table Alter Books, 3 dimensional pieces, and larger paintings. 

 Sharon’s work is also shown at The Green Antelope Gallery in Bellevue. 

 

Sharon Payne Bolton

Booth numbers 9 and 10

www.sharonpaynebolton.com

The design team Esoterica, also known as Michele Black and Terrance Deemer, are returning to the Valley to participate in the Ketchum Arts Festival, taking place July 8, 9 and 10.

            Making fine art jewelry together since 1999; their specialties include several copyrighted clasp designs, and etching techniques adapted from the computer industry. Their palette of etched silver, gold and gems is influenced by the landscapes and textures of the West.  Having lived in the Wood River Valley for a combined total of 50 years, they are familiar with the mountains’ siren song, but the desert and the sea call, too. Art fairs this year include Palm Springs, Jackson Hole, Seattle and San Francisco.

               The main studio is located in Boise, with the satellite studio changing as the season demands. Major etching and casting occurs at the former, while prototypes and one-offs are made in the other. Unlike many jewelry artists in the field today, they do all the work themselves, limiting  the volume of pieces, but ensuring quality and artistic progression.  The process is as important as the piece, and that makes it art.

Contact Information

Michele Black

Esoterica

P.O. Box 7308                                                                          

Boise, ID 83707

208-720-8576

www.esoterica-id.com

e:mblack1962@gmail.com

Imagine yourself in a lush green meadow ringed by spectacular alpine views, luxuriating in the prime weather of early July in the Rockies.  The wares of over 100 artists and craft makers, local chefs and brew-meisters, are spread before you to shop and sample, and local musicians are crooning in the background.  Sound like paradise?  It is!  It’s the Ketchum Arts Festival, revving up for its 12

^th performance on July 8-10, 2011.

For the festival-goer, the Ketchum Arts Festival (or KAF) has lots of positives. First-off there’s that setting. Add in the convenience: the Festival Meadow is just next door to the Catholic Church on Sun Valley Road, so it’s within a half mile by bike path from Ketchum or Sun Valley, and you can’t miss Sally Kern’s colorful flags from the road. There is also ample free parking at the site.

If you park in Ketchum and walk the few blocks, don’t park in a two hour zone, because you’ll be sure to want to stay longer! Add in two more positives, you’ll enjoy the Sun Valley scene, and your children (and your leashed dog) will have a great time.

The very best reason to come to the festival may be the quality and range of the artists’ wares for sale. The eclectic selection offers both high-end sophisticated art works by full-blown professionals and affordable art and crafts by emerging artists.  For example, the woodworking ranges widely, from fine quality inlaid furniture to whimsical sculpture to hand-painted flea market finds to birdhouses covered in seed mosaics. There is a museum’s worth of paintings and photographs from well-known artists, a pirate’s hoard of jewelry, ceramics of all varieties, plus clothing, hats, cats, and floor mats. 

Although primarily a showcase of art produced in Blaine County, Idaho, variety and depth is stirred into the mix with a selection of artisans from other parts of Idaho. The Ketchum Arts Festival steering committee hears every year from artists who rate this festival at the top of their circuit, because everyone, artist and shopper alike, is having such a good time.

Mark your calendar to spend a few hours at the Ketchum Arts Festival on Friday, Saturday and Sunday July 8-10, 2011 (10AM-6PM daily).  For more information, a look at the Festival Guide with all the artists, and a map, visit www.ketchumartsfestival.com. Photos by Tobin Jutte

 Sylvia Cohen still life and nature photographer from Boise, Idaho will be a guest artist at the Twelth Annual Ketchum Arts Festival in Sun Valley, Idaho.

  “You bring out the personality of flowers”, “What a harvest of beauty”, “This is a happy place”, “You have a great eye” she’s been told.

 Image quality is important to her and prints her own photos and signs each piece individually.  She takes advantage of the natural light. Her photos are crisp, and colorful.

 She enjoys capturing the unique such as the butterfly and a bumble bee together on an Echinacea flower or the raccoons making baccoons. 

 As a young adult, photography always interested her. It was not until 2000 that she fully engaged herself in photography focusing mainly on flowers.  She photographs fruits, vegetables and nature.  Spending summers in Sun Valley, gives her the perfect opportunity to capture the beauty of nature and is often seen with her camera hiking in the Wood River Valley and the Boise foothills.

 Her product line includes photos of various sizes, note cards (single and boxed sets), note pads, and magnets.

 Even though nature is her main focus, she also enjoys photographing musicians and was commissioned to photograph two different groups for their CD covers in 2010.

 Sylvia has been at numerous Bazaars and Fine Art Festivals and sells at the Boise City Capitol Market and the Ketchum Farmer’s Market.

CONTACT  INFORMATION

• Sylvia Cohen
• Photos by Sylvia                                                         
• 4888 Wildrye Drive
• Boise, Idaho
• 208.342.0853
• http://www.photosbysylvia.com/
• e:  photosbysylvia@cableone.net

Idaho sculptor Ken Newman begins the summer show season at the Ketchum Art Festival, which takes place July 8-10 from 10am-6pm.  In its twelth year, over 100 Idaho artists participate in the Ketchum Art Festival started by a group of Blaine County artisans.  A resident of Cambridge Idaho, this is the Ken's first year at this juried event held in the Festival Meadow on Sun Valley Rd – near the Lady of the Snows Catholic Church.

Ken Newman was born in raised in No California and migrated to Cambridge, Idaho in 2001. He finds Southwest Idaho a perfect place to be inspired by wildlife and people. In the past ten years, Ken and his partner Debbie have averaged about 30,000 miles a year on the road. Their journey is captured on a blog "Sculpting on the Road" at www.kennewman.blogspot.com.  The blogs follows their movement at art festivals and museum exhibitions across the country, north to south and east to west.  In addition to Sun Valley; Marin, McCall, Tahoe, Bodega Bay and Coeur d'Alene are on the schedule. In the fall, you will find them heading east to Little Rock, Arkansas and Easton, Maryland and in the winter they are off to Scottsdale, Arizona.  Ken is currently represented by galleries in Scottsdale, Sedona and Dubois, Wyoming.

 An elected member of the National Sculpture Society, Ken Newman is known for his wood wildlife sculptures and has expanded to include bronze wildlife and figurative works.  His sculptures have been juried into over 80 museum exhibitions and reside in many private collections across the US.  He currently has three sculptures on museum tours and "Composed", a bronze curlew, was recently purchased by the Woodson Museum in Wausau WI. 

The Ketchum Art Festival is a community event features over 100 artists, the weekend has something for everyone; art, entertainment, food and drink.  Ken notes, "I am looking forward to meeting those who enjoy art festivals and choose to support Idaho art in the Wood River Valley. There is something about getting out of the studio and on the road to sell art - it's a life like no other, you meet the most interesting people".

The Ketchum Art Festival opens on Friday, July 8  from 10am to 6pm daily and runs through Sunday, July 10.  For information on the participating artists and a schedule of the entertainment, visit the website at www.ketchumartfestival.com.

Contact:  Debbie McClendon

Phone:     208 337-8408

E-mail:     info@kennewmansculptures.com

Website: www.kennewmansculptures.com

Twitter: www.twitter.com/newmansculpture

Facebook: Ken Newman Sculptures

Thanks so much for this opportunity to share our delicious Plum Hill Pure Body Essentials with you. Plum Hill started simply—in my own kitchen, where my own problems with dry skin led me to experiment with natural oils and essences. The all-natural, cruelty-free ingredients used in the Plum Hill product line today are the same ingredients that I personally used for years, with positive results.

At Plum Hill, our products are formulated to give your skin the ultimate treat. From scrumptious sugar scrubs to sumptuous bath and body oils to luxurious body butters, our goal is to give you the silky smooth skin you deserve. I hope you find my Plum Hill products as enjoyable and beneficial as I do. Our all natural skin care line has always centered on three basic steps: cleanse, exfoliate, and most importantly, moisturize, to help your skin maintain its smoothness, no matter what the season or occasion.

Please visit our booth at Ketchum Arts Festival, July 8-10, at the Festival Meadow on Sun Valley Road. For more information, please feel free to contact me:

Jeanne Kissman
(208) 631-8891
jeanne@plumhill.net
www.plumhill.net

Artist JanyRae Seda is a fourth generation Idahoan who travels the west seeking colorful landscapes and intriguing historic places.  She pursues her work through sketches, photographs, local history, and enthusiasm. 

 JanyRae paints using bold strokes of color, building up multiple layers to create vibrant texture.  In 2010, Ms. Seda was awarded the Grellner Scholarship to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and won best of show at Wallowa and Sedona Fine Arts Festivals.

 JanyRae Seda’s work will be displayed at the Ketchum Arts Festival this upcoming July 8-10 at the Festival Meadow on Sun Valley Road by the Catholic Church. Show hours are 10AM-6PM daily.

Contact JanyRae at 

Seda Studios

417 South Thirteenth St, #200

P.O. Box 2014, Boise, Idaho, 83701

janyrseda@hotmail.com

208-590-1321

 Attached Images

1-    Early Snow in Sun Valley, watercolor on paper represents the colors of fall in Idaho.

2-    Ketchum Ranger Station, watercolor on paper, reflects Ketchum’s 1930s CCC Forest Service complex, which remains intact as a city park supporting mature trees and weekly summer concerts.

The first deadline is only three weeks away for applying for the July 8-10, 2011 Ketchum Arts Festival!  For Blaine County resident artists, applying by the March 15 deadline gives several advantages: application and booth fees are lower, plus you get included in the Festival Guide.  Artists and craftmakers residing in Blaine County are not juried, but are automatically accepted with a complete application. Registration does not automatically close on March 15, and complete applications will be accepted until all the booth sites are filled, so you procrastinators still have a shotshot!

Other Idaho artists are also welcome to apply, but absolutely must apply by the March 15 deadline.  These non-Blaine artists will be juried and accepted on their merits,  to complement the diversity of art offered by local applicants (full details on the festival website). A great 2011 Festival is brewing, so put on your Art Hat, and get ready to participate in what has become a terrific local tradition.  For contact information, visit www.ketchumartsfestival.com, where all forms and instructions are available for download.

Applications are open for the July 8-10, 2011 Ketchum Arts Festival!  This celebration of local arts, entertainers, and food, is very unique in being run by and for Blaine County artists. Since 1999, the festival has exploded in size and scope and is eagerly anticipated by vendors and shoppers alike.

 A new tradition starting this summer will make the Ketchum Arts Festival the new favorite of valley children and parents, with the addition of a kids’ festival tent, where fun (and free) activities will happen continuously.

 For inclusion in the festival guide, complete applications must be received by March 15, 2011. As in past years, local artists (Blaine County residents or those who resided in Blaine County when they previously exhibited) are not juried, but will be automatically accepted with a complete application.

 Other Idaho artists are welcome to apply, but will be juried and accepted on their merits and the diversity of art offered by local applicants (full details on the festival website).  A great 2011 Festival is brewing, so put on your Art Hat, and participate in what has become a terrific local tradition.  For contact information, visit www.ketchumartsfestival.com, where all forms and instructions are available for download.

Kick off your Christmas Season with Our Lady of the Snows' Second Annual Christmastime Concert on Sunday December 19th at 6:00 pm at 206 Sun Valley Road.  The program is free of charge, but donations for the children, teen and adult music programs at Our Lady of the Snows Church are most welcome. The concert will feature all three levels of our choir programs. Mary Poppen is very excited to introduce our talented, preteen choir members who will bring joy to each and everyone present. Our Lady of the Snows parish is delighted to have choir members from other religious communities joining with us to present this musical performance. In addition, Mary has invited several soloists and former music students to share their musical gifts with the Wood River Valley residents in attendance.

This Christmastime Concert, featuring the songs and arrangements of Michael W. Smith, is a perfect way to begin the Christmas season. It is a program that will please all ages--children, parents and grandparents. Our Christmastime Concert, combined with small bits of narration, tells the story of Christmas and gives hope that "ALL IS WELL" in our world.

For more information, call Our Lady of the Snows at 622-3432.

"Anam Cara" are Gaelic words for "soul friend".  "Anam Cara" is also the title of a book of Celtic Wisdom written by John O'Donohoe which goes into great depth on this beautiful subject of Soul Friend. 

Most importantly at this moment in Sun Valley, "Anam Cara" is the well-known and appreciated a cappella Chamber Choir of Idaho that will perform Christmas music for your soul on Saturday, December 11th, 5:30 PM, at St. Thomas Episcopal Church on Sun Valley Road.  The program is titled, "And The Angels Sing", and will consist of Christmas music in the 21st century.  This music evolves from many of the traditions of Christmases in Victorian England and the custom of caroling, with men in top hats and women in dome-skirted velvet coats, singing door-to-door.

For this program, Anam Cara singers will perform a selection of carols with texts ranging from 14th century to modern, and representing traditions from England, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Flanders, New England and Appalachia.  One carol even has a Calypso flavor, and the lyrics will be English, plus a little French, German and Latin.  There are fifteen selections and the program will last approximately one hour.

There will be sevewral compositions by John Rutter (born 1945 in London), one of the most successful choral composers of his generation.  In 1996 the Archbishop of Canterbury conferred a Doctorate of Music upon him in recognition of his contribution to church music.  There will also be selections composed by Sir David Willcocks (born 1919 in Cornwall), a choral conductor, organist and composer, and organ scholar at King's College, Cambridge.  He was Director of Music at King's College and later at the Royal College of Music.

Anam Cara consists of nineteen singers, under the musical direction of Dick Brown.  Accompanist for this performance will be R. L. Rowsey.

The concert is free.  We hope you will attend and leave with your soul well-befriended, and visions of Wassail!  Donations to support the choir will be gratefully received.

This past weekend, Vellotti's Chess Kids hosted the 2nd Annual Sun Valley Chess Championship in Ketchum.  The event was a great success, complete with trophies, prizes, and pizza!  Sun Valley area students and Boise kids played chess togther for great fun and sportsmanship. The event was held at the Smoky Mountain Pizza & Pasta Restaurant. The award-winning Vellotti chess coaching company plans to hold bi-monthly classes, events, workshops, and tournaments throughout this upcoming 2010 Fall and Winter season. See more pics of this past weekend's event and get info on upcoming events at www.SunValleyChess.com or call Daniel Vellotti at (208) 713-2486 for more info.

Over the years, customers at Ketchum Arts Festival have come to expect to find artists like Russ Lamb (large wildlife bronzes), Don King (sublime willow furniture), Dave LaMure (glass and sculpture) and Christina Healey (gold and gemstone jewelry). In addition to the high-end, sophisticated art works by these and other professional artists, browsers can also expect works by emerging artists (including 11 year old painter Lane Letourneau), and many affordable crafts.

Among the more unusual offerings this year are wine barrel furnishings, specialty herb and spice blends, award winning mustards, hula hoops, tipis and hammocks, and of course, there’ll be a veritable cornucopia of jewelry, pottery, glass, wearables and paintings.  The beautiful images taken at the festival last year and used in KAF publicity will be among other images for sale by talented photographer Tobin Jutte.

These talented artists and craftsmakers will fill up 135 booths at the festival, with the majority from Blaine County or former valley residents. A few additional Idaho artists were selected by jury, to round out the diversity of art media.

 

Fantastic food will be presented by Tom Abbot’s Smokin’ BBQ, Holloway Creations (chicken curry, salmon and portobello burgers!), Sun Valley Brewery (microbrew, burgers and brats), Lyndsey’s lemonade (the real deal), and Nancy’s Gourmet (fantastic) Cookies.  While you dine, there’ll be live music and other entertainment.  Bands include The Mighty Shims, Spare Change Kim Stocking Band, among many others. Here’s the roster of terrific local musicians appearing during the Ketchum Arts Festival:

Friday July 9

12-1 Dewey, Pickette, & Howe
1:15-2:15 Bruce Innes
2:30-3:30 Craig Meyers
3:45-4:15 Rick Hoel
4:30-6 Kim Stocking Band

 Saturday July 10

12-12:30 Drum Talk with Tyia Wilson and George Grant
12:45 Kim's Kids
1-1:30 Varda and Dr. Heart
1:30-2:30 Spare Change
3-4 Hat Trick
4:30-6 To Be Announced

 Sunday July 11

12-12:45 Mark Slocum
1-2 The Mighty Shims
2:15-3:45 Gayle Chapman
4-5 Mike White
 

 

The Festival is scheduled this year for the July 9-11th weekend; hours of operation are 10AM-6PM on the 9

^th and 10^th, and 10AM-5PM on the 11^th.  The location, as in recent years, is in the beautiful setting of the Festival Meadows on Sun Valley Road between Ketchum and Sun Valley, next to Our Lady of Snows Catholic Church. There is plentiful free parking, or festival-goers can catch a free bus to the site from Sun Valley or Ketchum. There is no entrance fee.

 

Free color catalog profiling the exhibiting artists are now available to pick up at local merchants like Perry’s and the Ketchum/Sun Valley and Hailey Chambers of Commerce. This full brochure, plus a map to the festival, can be also be found at www.ketchumartsfestival.org or picked up at the festival. For more details about the festival, call 725-4090 or email ketchum_arts_festival at yahoo.com.

 Dave LaMure Jr. was selected to exhibit in the Ketchum Art Festival, July 9-11, because he brings new dimensions to the art world with his eye for detail which is captured in his incredible glass, bronze and raku clay sculptures. Dave has been perfecting his talents for 32 years creating one of-a-kind pieces. His innovative techniques and style create dynamic forms recognized by collectors worldwide. His unique artwork drew the attention of the “HGTV” network producers and he was featured on their “Modern Masters” series. Sophia Loren chose his work as “Best of Show” at Weems Artfest in 1999.

His work has also been published in several well-known magazines such as:

Wildlife Art; Sunset Magazine; Southwest Art; Cowboys and Indians; and Western Art Collector.  His work has been exhibited at The National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming ; The Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, Wyoming; and many galleries in the West.

            Dave's art echoes his life. He was born on an Indian reservation in Southern Nevada, grew up all over the West, attended college in Montana, and spent eight years as a white water guide on the Salmon River. He spends as much time outdoors as possible.

Contact Dave throughphone:(208)731-1845 or  email: dave@davelamurejr. 

Dave LaMure’s website is www.davelamurejr.com

 In 1983, Jan Adams started painting on antler, as a hobby....now, 27 years later, that hobby has turned into a small business.

Throughout the 70's & 80's, Jan took Art Classes of all kinds, trying to learn how to paint animals. Jan says “All that was offered was scenery, and still-lifes, but they helped a lot...I was forced to try to paint animals, the best that I could...practice, practice, and more practice.”     Painting with oils on Antler and Agate, (that range in size from 1" to 7")  is something that most people wouldn't want to do, but Jan likes it...it involves using a magnifying glass, to get all the details.

Her paintings are only a part of what Idaho Wildlife Originals is about...Jan’s husband Jim is also very involved in Antler Art. He has joined Jan, since retiring, in going to local art shows, such as the Ketchum Arts Festival on July 9, 10 and 11,  and selling their of artworks. When Jim started working with antler, he never dreamed he would be working with it almost everyday.  Jan calls Jim “a perfectionist”, and it shows in all he makes.  Every way these partners can think of to utilize all parts of the antler, is a way to "RECYCLE" an abundant natural resource.

       Jan always had small items, including Belt Buckles, Bola Ties, and Necklaces.  Now they make larger pieces, including Elk Antler Floor Lamps, Deer Antler Chandeliers & table lamps.  With such a wide variety of different things, there are many processes that must be gone through to make them.  From cutting and polishing, to paint brushes and oil paints, Jan and Jim keep trying to make something that others will like. 

            Visit Jan and Jim Adams at their booth at Ketchum Arts Festival, July 9-11, and email them at jjadams9 at localnet.com or call 208-983-1436.  Their website is www.idahoantlerart.biz.

  Kris Lammers, a southern Idaho artist, has always loved to create, no matter the medium.  "When I was about 14, I took apart my sister's wedding dress, convinced I could make something wonderful!"

  Kris was an illustrator for Gooseberry Patch for over 10 years and currently designs quilt fabric with Maywood Studio, www.maywoodstudio.com .

  "Old Dog, New Trick" is all about finding tired old pieces of furniture and bringing them back to life.  "I have always loved searching second-hand stores or flea-markets for those "old dogs" that have such potential."

 Sandie Davis, also an artisan, from southern Idaho, loves creating in many art forms… creativity plays a major roll in my happiness! She says, “I feel all tangled up inside when I am not creating or dreaming up a new project!”

Paisley Ink!, as Sandie calls her creative adventures, is a way to share her love of collecting quotes, verses, sayings etc. as well as the fun of dabbling with her camera.  So… her offerings of shadowbox picture frames, along with other items displaying words and much loved quotes combines both of these areas of artistic expression and allows her to enjoy these hobbies all while meeting wonderful people along the way!  “This is what makes me happy!” she said.

Kris and Sandie are both looking forward to the festival this year and invite you to stop by their booth or contact Kris at 208-324-9454 or email krislammers@cableone.net and Sandie can be reached by calling 208-308-2218 or emailing paisleyink@cableone.net