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ArtFest
Date  September 21, 2019 @ 12PM - 5PM

ArtFest! See, Create, and Enjoy ART!

The public is invited to the Quincy Art Center’s annual fall arts festival! The Art Center’s ArtFest includes hands-on art projects and other enjoyable activities for adults and children on the lawn around the Art Center at 1515 Jersey Street (one block off Maine on 16th Street) and in the interior galleries and library.

The whole family can enjoy free and low-cost hands-on activities & demonstrations by local artists, a collaborative mural, spin art, throwing on the pottery wheel, and live animal drawing. In addition, there will be art games, face painting, Paint your own Pottery, Raku pottery firing, a bounce house and family fun!

Community Booths provided by: 4 Winds Farm, Arts Quincy, Blessing Hospital, Homebank, John Wood, Make-A-Wish, Quincy Area Family Magazine, Quincy Public Library, Red Bud Yoga, United Way

Entertainment from: Javaux Music School, Kathy Brink, Tim Smith

Food Vendors: Carnival Cravings, Gengenbacher Shaved Ice, TCBY, Women's City Club

Silent Auction Items from Local Artists: Amanda Brown, Ann Miller Titus, Deb Scoggin-Myers, Linda Gower, Steve Ryan, Sarah Little

Silent Auction Items from: Casey's General Store, Dick Blick Art Supplies, Oriental Trading, For Home and Her, Home Depot, Quincy Tea Co.

 

This event has been generously sponsored by Quincy University, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, Quincy Medical Group, John & Helen Cornell, Bruce & Lori Kruse, Keck Heating & Air, Quincy Area Family Magazine, Stifel Nicolaus & Co Inc, O'Donnell's Termite & Pest Control, Gengenbacher Shaved Ice